Research campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen

48.74465766 9.10249155Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 6 ′ 9 ″ E The Stuttgart-Vaihingen research campus is an area in the Stuttgart-Vaihingen district in which large parts of Stuttgart's research landscape have been concentrated since the 1950s.

history

The University of Stuttgart was originally located in the city center of Stuttgart . For reasons of space, among other things, individual institutes were initially relocated to the Pfaffenwald district from the 1950s, and then from the 1960s onwards almost the entire technical and scientific area . Student and employee apartments, social buildings and other buildings (sports halls, kindergartens) were also built there under the guiding principle of “Campus as a city”. The university therefore combines its facilities as the Vaihingen campus . In 1975 two Max Planck Institutes moved into the immediate vicinity ( Büsnau ), and several Fraunhofer Institutes followed in the 1980s . The Media University and part of the Stuttgart University of Technology are now also on campus. Since 1985 the campus has been connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network via the Stuttgart University train station.

As part of the federal government's excellence initiative , individual institutions were grouped together as a cooperative research campus as part of an application sketch.

In 2015 there were around 20,000 students on campus, as well as several thousand academic staff .

Facilities

University of Stuttgart (8 of the 10 faculties, particularly natural, engineering and sports sciences)
- High-performance computing center with the fastest supercomputer in Germany at times
- Raumfahrtzentrum Baden-Württemberg (RZBW) was handed over to the university in January 2012.
- Materials testing institute University of Stuttgart
- Pfaffenwald University Observatory
- Branch of the Stuttgart University Library

Two research institutes of the Max Planck Society
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (formerly Max Planck Institute for Metals Research)
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
The Institute Center Stuttgart (IZS) is the second largest research center of the Fraunhofer Society in Germany and has two of its presidents . It is divided into
Stuttgart Media University

In the adjacent technology park Stuttgarter Engineering Park (STEP) is also many technology companies have settled, such as Voith (companies) or Microsoft .