Every year, outstanding dissertations that deal with Lower Franconia or whose authors have lived in the region for a long time are honoured at the JMU Foundation Festival.

In five years' time, a large asteroid will fly very close to Earth – a unique opportunity to study it. Concepts for a national German small satellite mission are being examined at the University of Würzburg.

ESA just published the selected new generation of 6 future ESA-Astronauts with one SpaceMaster (the Master's program offered prior to Satellite Technology at the University of Würzburg).

It can happen that quickly: After just one year of construction, the new building for the university's AI centre CAIDAS was completed. Bavaria's Science Minister Markus Blume attended the opening.