i-Campus Schweinfurt
The i-Campus Schweinfurt (also: Johann-Lorenz-Bausch-Campus ) is a project for an international university campus of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS), which is being built in the Carus Park in Schweinfurt . The project is running as part of the internationalization of the university, with newly introduced English-language courses in Schweinfurt (since 2014) and Würzburg (since 2016), which are called FHWS i-Campus .
location
The i-Campus Schweinfurt of the FHWS is being built on a former barracks area as part of the new Carus-Park district , which belongs to the superordinate north-western district . In the vicinity of the i-Campus is one of the largest sports parks in Germany, with the Willy Sachs Stadium , the Icedome ice rink and numerous other sports facilities of all kinds. The future i-Campus is 1 km northwest of the city center and 1.5 km north of the Mains . The area is located directly on Niederwerrner Straße, a wide avenue with a large population of trees and an arterial road ( B 303 ) towards Bad Kissingen and to two motorway junctions, on the A 71 towards Erfurt and the A 7 towards Kassel .
Campus 1 of the FHWS is 500 m south of the future i-Campus and has two direct connections to it via Richard-Strauss-Strasse and Richard-Wagner-Strasse. The city bus 21 Mozartstraße leads from the city center to the future i-Campus . Since 2016, the Campus-Express , a direct city bus line , has been running from the main train station , 1.5 km to the south , to Campus 1.
etymology
i-Campus (pronunciation in German) stands for international campus . Since 2018 the new name Johann-Lorenz-Bausch-Campus has appeared in publications of the city of Schweinfurt . Johann Lorenz Bausch was a co-founder of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , which was founded in Schweinfurt in 1652 and is now the National Academy of Sciences, now based in Halle an der Saale .
history
Withdrawal of the US Army
In 2014 the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt , founded in 1945, was completely dissolved. From now on u. a. the Ledward barracks are available for the construction of a new district (see: Carus-Park, construction of the Carus-Park ).
Idea for i-Campus
All efforts to re-use the Ledward Barracks initially led to no result until an unexpected turnaround was published on August 13, 2013. Internally, the FHWS had already come to the conclusion that, in view of the low birth rate, a more international orientation of the university was necessary. Almost at the same time, the Americans announced their withdrawal from Schweinfurt. In January 2013 the President of the FHWS, Professor Dr. Robert Grebner and Schweinfurt's Lord Mayor Sebastian Remelé for an initial meeting, during which Grebner presented the already well-developed idea of the i-Campus . Later, however, there was again a question mark behind the i-Campus project , until it was finally officially announced on April 18, 2015 that the decision to build the i-Campus had finally been made by the Bavarian state government and funds would be made available.
Before that, in September 2014, the first 60 students from all over the world had already come to Schweinfurt for the two courses in English, industrial engineering and logistics , which are initially offered in the existing premises on Campus 1. They run as part of the bachelor's degree programs that have been in existence since then with the designation i-Campus FHWS and are structured according to the so-called twin program , which enables a change between the degree programs.
Planning and start of construction
In February 2016, the joint design by the Hamburg architects Wiking and Froh and the Berlin landscape architect Frank Kiessling won first prize in an urban design ideas competition and became the basis for the project. In November 2018, the shell for the first new building was completed, a large building in which the industrial engineering faculty is brought together. The building is to be opened in the winter semester 2020/21.
Since the conversion of the military areas in Schweinfurt, in contrast to other cities and the Conn barracks in the district of Schweinfurt , progressed very quickly, it became known as turbo conversion .
Offer and planned final expansion
All the plans listed below are to be implemented in three stages by 2030.
i-campus
As part of the new FHWS i-Campus offer, English-language bachelor- twin courses in the fields of logistics ( logistics ) and business and engineering ( industrial engineering ) have been offered at the Schweinfurt site since the winter semester 2014/15 on campus 1 for students from Germany and all over the world. offered. Since the 2016/17 winter semester, English-language courses in international management have been available in Würzburg . The offer is to be expanded to include bilingual (German / English) Bachelor-Twin courses, possibly also with the fields of mechanical engineering in Schweinfurt and computer science in Würzburg. In 2019, the i-Campus study in Schweinfurt is to be relocated from Campus 1 to the first new premises in Carus-Park . In Campus 1, as originally, teaching will take place exclusively in German.
The Schweinfurt department of the FHWS has specialized in the MINT subjects , which is to be continued in the i-Campus: “The orientation of the planned FHWS i-Campus offers an internationally oriented, application-oriented (MINT) degree program that is strongly networked with the companies. " (FHWS President Professor Dr. Robert Grebner )
New construction measures for the FHWS i-Campus offer are planned exclusively in Schweinfurt. In addition to the new main building, further building complexes are to be built to the west of a new north-south campus axis. This axis runs as an extension to Richard-Strauss-Straße, which leads in the middle to the main entrance portal of the existing Campus 1, with the maximum auditorium . Richard-Strauss-Strasse and the north-south campus axis are to form the Schweinfurt university axis together .
i-factory
In contrast to the i-Campus , the i-factory pronounces the i in English, which does not stand for international but for information technology . In the i-factory , science and business are brought together in a network in order to be able to meet the new challenges. Local large and medium-sized companies are involved. The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) in Stuttgart took over the planning. "The i-factory would like to give companies direct access to innovative research facilities of the FHWS in the subjects of computer science, electrical engineering, mechatronics and mechanical engineering."
For Industry 4.0 is a digital factory planned: "This is visualized one in a 3D model virtual model factory, fully automated in the multi-step manufacturing process can be economically developed in every detail and tested." The idea of i-factory dates , as it were from the i-Campus, from FHWS President Professor Dr. Robert Grebner.
The FHWS is also getting a teaching center on the i-Campus with Germany’s first degree in robotics , with 350 places. It focuses on programming and application for robot systems with artificial intelligence . "In five years we want to fire the first robotics engineers," hopes FH President Grebner. As part of the i-factory concept, the first of three buildings will be the robotics building for the two degree courses in Robotics (German) and Robotics (English). The building should be completed in 2025.
Branch office of the Fraunhofer IPA
The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA) took over the planning of the i-factory . A branch of the Fraunhofer IPA has already been established on the i-Campus and is temporarily housed in the former US headquarters.
See also: Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, i-factory Schweinfurt
Industry on campus
Companies can also rent project rooms on the i-Campus Schweinfurt ( Industry on Campus ). “It is still a thought experiment, provides production areas and offices, laboratories and seminar rooms for university students and for industry. A fusion of industry and university of applied sciences, which is obvious at the location of the only mechanical engineering course in Lower Franconia. "
i-Company
An i-Company (the i is also pronounced in English here and has the same meaning as the i-Factory ) is to be set up in cooperation between the FHWS, the Haßberge district and the Würzburg-Schweinfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
- “The i-Company pilot project is also intended to promote cooperation between science and industry. This cooperation between FHWS, the district of Haßberge and the IHK Würzburg-Schweinfurt is intended to provide small and medium-sized companies with selected students from the university for internships and project work. The special service of the FHWS: through the i-Company, organizational tasks are taken over by the university. For example, no individual company contracts with international students are required. Legal and insurance-related questions have already been clarified, so that the companies can easily fall back on qualified students with international experience or origin. In addition, the i-Company takes on the coordination of project work at the university that is commissioned by companies. "
Student village
Four barracks around the Ehrenhof (picture: see beginning of article) on Niederwerrner Straße are being converted into student dormitories and are to form a student village. The square with its meadow should serve as a meeting point and center of the village. These are the three blocks that directly surround the square and another block to the west of it, also on Niederwerrner Strasse.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: i-Campus: The trump card in hand , August 13, 2013, p. 21
- ↑ Main Post, online edition of April 20, 2015: University of Applied Sciences in Schweinfurt goes international
- ↑ a b c d FHWS International. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: The First International , February 5, 2015, p. 21
- ↑ Hannes Helferich: This is how it will be life in Ledward in the future. In: mainpost.de. October 17, 2017, accessed February 20, 2019 .
- ↑ a b TV Touring Schweinfurt, July 13, 2016
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt, February 25, 2016
- ↑ schweinfurter 3/13: Studying bilingual , p. 19
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk, report on the US conversion in Schweinfurt, April 20, 2015
- ↑ a b c d e f g Economy in Mainfranken. Journal of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Würzburg-Schweinfurt: The "i-Dreiklang" of the FHWS , March 2014, p. 28 f.
- ↑ mainpost.de: "On the trail of Industry 4.0", September 30, 2018. Accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ^ Economy in Mainfranken: "Setting new impulses with i-Campus and i-Factory" , May 2016, p. 9
- ↑ mainpost.de: Robots made in Schweinfurt, March 12, 2020. Accessed on April 13, 2020 .
- ↑ mainpost.de: The i-Factory should go into operation in 2020 - with Fraunhofer, July 2, 2019. Accessed on July 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt, February 25, 2016 "