The Eastern Bavaria Regensburg will next year as Germany's "City of Science" a strong bridge build between the elite research and the citizens of the city. Regensburg pays a good chance to compete for the coveted title, the decision is made on 28 March.
Regensburg (obx - internet-newspaper) - Regensburg has already beaten many bridges was built over 850 years there with the Stone Bridge, the first permanent crossing of the Danube in central Europe. In the Middle Ages brought together Regensburg traders and merchants from all over Europe at the northernmost point of the Danube, and during the Perpetual Imperial Diet, which met from 1163 1806 in Regensburg, the city was one of the most important political centers of Europe. Regensburg's old city today combines great history of 2,000 Years and living presence. And since the fall of the Iron Curtain in Regensburg have his old bridge zurückerkämpft as mediator between Eastern and Western Europe, as a gateway between industry and science in the new EU countries.
wants next year, the East Bavarian city on the Danube hit another bridge: a living bond between science and citizens to education, teaching, research and development have made in the city first hand experience. With a concept that integrates the population in the major research questions of our time, will Regensburg on 28 March, the judges in the competition for the "City of Science 2012" convincing.
"The Chances are, "said Lord Mayor of Regensburg. Regensburg has made headlines in recent years, especially with innovative projects at the interface between applied research and industry. In Biopark began exactly ten years, funded by city, state and private investors start for young companies working in biotechnology and related fields and often cooperate closely with the University of Regensburg. Meanwhile, the world leader for Gene "From the Tube" and a leading manufacturer of novel anticancer drugs at home there. As "Memory of creativity" combines a former warehouse on the banks of the Danube IT start-ups with IT departments at the university and college.
In future, the science Regensburg to grow. Steps should study mathematics, science and engineering courses at the University and the University of Applied Sciences will be further expanded. On a military site also resolved a technology park is planned.
bridges are ubiquitous in Regensburg: The University of Regensburg in a stylized bridge with their seals and counts them in their self-image. With around 26,500 students Regensburg is one of the great university cities of southern Germany. The University has since its inception developed 50 years ago not even the tip of Germany's young academics. In all Bavarian universities last no university has grown faster than Regensburg. In the current academic semester reports the training ground, even a new student record and a total of about five percent more students. This is in addition to the Regensburg future technologies - such as biotechnology, sensor technology, or IT - especially to its role as southern Germany's most important pillars of "academic bridge" to the new EU member states in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Since the political changes in Eastern Europe were made with Europaeum, the East-West Studies, the Bavarian Academic Center for Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe or the Bohemicum numerous nationally unique facilities that young people from Germany, Western and Eastern Europe closer together. Once again, Regensburg
throws his trump card as a "bridge city" now with the title battle for Germany's "Science City" in 2012 in the balance. "Regensburg is expected to more than become a city of knowledge and innovation to date, a bridge between developers and businesses, a center for ideas and products to conquer the world," says Regensburg Mayor Hans Schaidinger, of the final judges the application concept imagine the end of March in Mainz.
Regensburg, where once the astronomer Johannes Kepler and the polymath Albertus Magnus researched wants to compete in the Donors' Association for German Science his rank as a high growth location with promising opportunities to strengthen further. Together, the founders developed a bold vision: In twenty years will be a city of Regensburg teaching with development centers, think tanks and strategic planning departments, a city of inventors and decision makers, a city of knowledge and a city of exchange.
On their way to the title will top the East Bavarian town with many activities, events and initiatives, the competitors in Halle an der Saale, Sachsen-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein in Lübeck. Plans include a year-round science quiz and a summer theme week, which the inhabitants of the city and the region is close to bringing the sciences and their connection to the economy. to be created the post of a new urban science coordinator. In addition, a scientific dialogue, a lecture series under the working title "Science for All" and a new science prize are planned to be named after Johannes Kepler. The continuation of the "children's university", which already regularly thrilled the offspring of the research is on the program.
A jury of the Donors' Association for German Science is on 29. March in Mainz announce the winners of the city known. The leaders in the city on the Danube are convinced that Regensburg has the best chance to Bremen / Bremerhaven, Dresden, Braunschweig, Jena, Oldenburg, Germany and Mainz seventh "city of science" to be.
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