Science city

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In Germany, the title of City of Science is awarded by the governments of the respective federal states to cities in which national and international institutions and research facilities have achieved outstanding research achievements. Four German cities currently hold this title.

Science cities

Darmstadt

Place name sign of Darmstadt

The southern Hessian city ​​of Darmstadt was the first city in Germany to receive this title in August 1997 from the Hessian Ministry of the Interior for Agriculture, Forests and Nature Conservation .

This was to acknowledge the national and international importance of the scientific institutions and research facilities as a whole in the city. Darmstadt has an extraordinary concentration of scientific institutions in very different research areas. This becomes clear in the highly respected Technical University founded in 1877 with approx. 27,000 students , the predominantly technical university with approx. 15,000 students and around 35 research institutions and companies with research activities employing approx. 6,000 scientists .

The importance of Darmstadt research was u. a. by naming the chemical element Darmstadtium with the ordinal number 110, which was discovered in the Darmstadt GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research . The previously discovered Hassium with the ordinal number 108 was named after the state of Hesse .

The title is officially used and can also be read on the town signs .

Fuerth

Since August 2007, the Middle Franconian city of Fürth has also had the title of City of Science, which was awarded to it by the Bavarian Minister of Science. Among other things, researchers from the Fraunhofer Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT, a joint department of the Erlangen Fraunhofer IIS and the Saarbrücken Fraunhofer IZFP, conduct research in Fürth. Important topics are industrial X-ray and non-destructive testing, especially in the aerospace industry. The Fraunhofer EZRT is currently located in the Uferstadt in Fürth, from 2012 the researchers will move to Atzenhof, where a new institute building is being built. The test hall for a LINAC linear accelerator, unique in Europe, was inaugurated in October 2010.

Straubing

The Bavarian city of Straubing has also been using this title since August 2007, which was awarded to it by the then Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber .

The KoNaRo - Competence Center for Renewable Raw Materials is located in Straubing.It brings together three organizations that deal with renewable raw materials : the Technology and Promotion Center (TFZ) , CARMEN (Central Agricultural Raw Material Marketing and Energy Network) and the Science Center Straubing (WZS) .

The Straubing Science Center is a cooperation between six universities. It was founded by the Technical University of Munich and the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University (then still Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences). Further cooperation partners are the University of Regensburg , the East Bavarian Technical University of Regensburg , the University of Deggendorf and the University of Landshut .

In his speech at the opening of the Straubing Gäubodenvolksfest on August 11, 2007, the then Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber conveyed the news that Straubing would receive the title Science City for basic and applied research at KoNaRo .

Burghausen

The Bavarian city of Burghausen has held the title of Science City since October 2016 . The Bavarian Science Minister Ludwig Spaenle opened a new campus for the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences there . Since then you can study chemical engineering and business administration in Burghausen. One reason for choosing Burghausen was that several well-known chemical companies are already based there.

Science city as a district

In Ulm , a district on the Obere Eselsberg, which is home to the university , the Ulm University of Applied Sciences and various research centers, is called Science City . However, the city itself does not have the title of a science city, but is referred to as the university city of Ulm.

WISTA - science and business location Berlin-Adlershof - has a similar concept .

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  1. ↑ Embarrassing mistake in Burghausen: the city gets a new place-name sign - but it's the wrong one. FOCUS online, November 17, 2016, accessed on October 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Minister of Science Dr. Spaenle opens the Burghausen campus of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences - two new courses start in the winter semester. Bavarian State Government, September 29, 2016, accessed October 7, 2017 .