# Partnerships: From Contacts to Collaborations

**Source**: https://www.fau.eu/for-companies-and-partners/
**Parent**: https://www.fau.eu/

Collaboration with FAU allows companies and partners to access cutting-edge research, innovative ideas and interdisciplinary know-how directly. Joint projects, research with a practical focus and real-life applications for innovative ideas encourage sustainable solutions and competitive advantages. A diverse infrastructure, lively networks and tailored services support each stage of collaboration, from the initial planning stages to the final implementation. This creates an environment where innovation, diversity and academic excellence meet practical relevance.

## Reasons for entering into partnership with FAU

Raise visibility
:   Shape your profile as a partner of FAU\

Attract talents
:   Get in touch with talented students\

Encourage innovation
:   Use research directly\

Encourage continuing education
:   Extend the knowledge in your company\

- [### Collaborations and ecosystem

  Daily collaboration in strategic partnerships and project-based cooperation within the FAU community and the diverse innovation ecosystem, in the ZOHO Factory’s entrepreneurial network, and in the European Innovation Alliance of leading start-up and innovation centers shapes FAU’s innovative strength. These networks provide access to knowledge, exchange, and new ideas. In addition, the FAU Shop and […]

  Read more about Collaborations and ecosystem](https://www.fau.eu/university/innovation/kooperationen/)
- [### Patents and licenses

  Many things we take for granted today were either invented by scientists at FAU or would not have been possible without their initial research.

  Read more about Patents and licenses](https://www.fau.eu/university/innovation/patents-and-licenses/)

- [### University’s profile

  FAU is one of Germany’s leading universities and combines excellence, innovation, and diversity.

  Read more about University’s profile](https://www.fau.eu/university/universitys-profile/)
- [### Professional Master’s degree programs

  If you want to keep up with rapid developments in technology and society and if you are interested in continuing your professional development FAU offers you a wide range of opportunities, from Master’s degree programmes for working professionals to individual seminars. Professional Master’s degree programs

  Read more about Professional Master’s degree programs](https://www.fau.eu/studying/degree-programs/special-ways-to-study/professional-masters-degree-programs/)
- [### Funding and support

  Foundations and sponsoring associations have been supporting FAU in a number of different ways for years. This is another way for you to support the work of students and researchers at the University with your donations and contributions. The University also supports interested companies with recruiting as well as with marketing products and services.

  Read more about Funding and support](https://www.fau.eu/university/funding-and-support/)

## Deutschlandstipendium

FAU is investing in the leaders of tomorrow, together with the federal German government and companies, foundations and private individuals.

[To Deutschlandstipendium](https://www.fau.de/universitaet/foerderung-und-unterstuetzung/deutschlandstipendium/)

## Further opportunities for collaboration

- [### Advertising and recruitment

  FAU supports interested companies with recruiting as well as with marketing products and services. We are always pleased when sponsors and donors offer their support to the University, promoting Germany as a location for education. Finding qualified personnel Your future employees are studying with us. Get in touch with them by posting a job vacancy […]

  Read more about Advertising and recruitment](https://www.fau.eu/university/funding-and-support/companies-and-organizations/advertising-and-recruitment/)
- [### Career Service

  Karriereberatung und Workshops rund um Bewerbung und Berufseinstieg.

  Read more about Career Service](https://www.fau.eu/studying/organizing-your-studies-and-where-to-go-for-advice/student-advice-center/career-service/)
- [### Lifelong learning

  FAU advocates the principle of lifelong learning. Our goal is to enable people to update, enrich and extend their knowledge at any stage in life through a structured and expanding range of professional development courses. FAU offers a range of seminars and degree programs for working professionals through the Office of Knowledge and Technology Transfer […]

  Read more about Lifelong learning](https://www.fau.eu/university/innovation/lifelong-learning/)