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In June 2024, Scharrer Middle School received the Etz Chaim Cup, which is awarded by the Gesellschaft für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit in Franken e.V. (GCJZ) for projects that emphasize and promote cooperation and mutual respect between the three monotheistic religions. The school approached BaFID with a request for support in organizing an interfaith workshop.

There are concepts that occur in all three major monotheistic religions. Scientists from all over the world discuss these and present their findings annually at the conference series ‘Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses’ at FAU Erlangen.

The Bavarian Minister of the Interior visits one of the ministry-funded projects, the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse at the FAU in Erlangen

A digital summer series was again held in the summer semester of 2023 under the motto "Three dates, three topics, three religions - everyday topics viewed from an interreligious perspective". The topics and dates were: 17. May 2023: Luxury and materiality Impulse: Prof. Dr. ...

The Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse (BaFID) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) organizes thematically oriented lecture series under the name "Bayerisches Interreligiöses Kolleg" (BIK). The first lecture in the summer semester of 2021 focused on the found...

Three times a year, BaFID organises English-language conferences with internationally renowned academics. Each conference consists of two sessions dedicated to two central, related concepts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Selected conference reports are online. From 21 to 23 June 2023, speakers ...

BaFID's digital Interreligious Calendar for 2023 can be accessed here. The individual calendar pages depict the central holidays in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and their interreligious references. A print version was also published for 2023, entitled "Faces of the Region—Interreligious through ...

Under the heading "Politics and Paradise - Religious and Secular Promises of Salvation as a Political Challenge to Western Democracies", BaFID and the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSS) organized an expert conference at the Orangery in Erlangen. Speakers from FAU, the Central European University, the...

„Was an Schulen wirksam werden soll, muss im Studium beginnen“: The Research Centre for Interreligious Education (University of Augsburg) and BaFID organised a study day on the prevention of anti-Semitism in teacher training in Augsburg. Dr Josef Schuster, Chairman of the Central Council ...

The „Erlanger Interreligiösen Gespräche“ were continued on 13 October 2021. The topic was: „Learning IN Religion?“ Perspectives on „Transmission of Faith“ in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Here can be found the fourth edition of the co-operation event between BaFID and the Erlangen City Library: L...