TA-CON-2014-013

The new Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is under
construction at GSI in Darmstadt (Germany), where the PANDA experiment
represents the central part of the hadron physics programme. The
multi-purpose PANDA detector in combination with an intense and high
quality anti-proton beam for creating a gluon-rich environment in
anti-proton-proton collisions allows for coverage of a broad range of
different aspects of QCD. Apart from the facility and the apparatus,
an overview of the rich PANDA physics programme will be given, with
focus on the unique possibilities for performing studies in the field
of exotic hadrons.