TA-CON-2018-035

The ambition of the antiProton ANnihilation at DArmstadt (PANDA) collaboration is to address various questions related to the strong interactions by employing a multi-purpose detector system at the near-future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR). The usage of antiprotons with unprecedented momentum resolution and intensity will give access to a unique physics program. With center-of-mass energies up to 5.5~GeV, PANDA will be able to probe various aspects of QCD from light to charm-like systems. In this presentation, I will give an overview and motivation of the overall physics program of PANDA at FAIR with emphasis on the prospects of studying hidden- and open-charm(like) hadrons in the first phase of data taking.