Since October 2012 the Jinan University in Guangzhou in the South of China, has been connected with the Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg by a partnership contract. Now, for the first time, a delegation from Guangzhou visited Würzburg.

With numerous anecdotes and spectacular structures a visibly good humored Peter J. Stang provided for an utterly amusing Siegfried Hünig Lecture 2013

In 2013 the Bavarian joint project "Solar Technologies Go Hybrid" (SolTech) will be coordinated by the Würzburg Key Lab. Therefore, the 2nd SolTech Workshop recently took place at Monastery Banz / Bad Staffelstein.

Another big success for the natural sciences at the University of Würzburg: No other German university achieved a higher proportion of top 10% publications in the renowned Leiden Ranking of 500 major universities worldwide.