Lighthouse for science communication

Photo of the exhibition at the Lighthouse
Together with high-ranking guests, European XFEL opens the modern exhibition and conference center Lighthouse on its campus in Schenefeld near Hamburg to the public.

European XFEL opens a permanent exhibition and a student laboratory on the world's largest X-ray laser It measures 3.5 kilometers and stretches from the central campus of Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld to Schenefeld in Schleswig-Holstein: At the European XFEL, researchers will find a facility that allows 27,000 X-ray laser flashes per second and a luminosity that is a billion times higher than that of...

DESYCenter for X-ray and Nano Research CXNS opened

Photo of the opening speech
Opening of the new Centre for X-ray and Nano Science (CXNS) at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY on April 12, 2022 in Hamburg. Photo: Daniel Reinhardt/DESY

The Center for X-ray and Nano Research CXNS on the DESY research campus is an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional platform for research with X-ray light in combination with nano and material sciences and is unique in this form. Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Hamburg's Science Senator Katharina Fegebank and Schleswig-Holstein's Education Minister Karin Prien officially opened the new interstate research building on Tuesday, April 12, 2022, together with...

Successful start: Citizen participation

Presentation of the district development plans.
Kick-off event for the competitive dialog "Quartiere am Volkspark" , Science City Bahrenfeld with the participating offices and Urban Catalyst. Kick-off event for the competitive dialog "Quartiere am Volkspark" , Science City Bahrenfeld with the participating offices and Urban Catalyst. Kick-off event for the competitive dialog "Quartiere am Volkspark" , Science City Bahrenfeld with the participating offices and Urban Catalyst.

More than 70 people came to the trotting track in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld last Saturday, October 7, to contribute their local expertise and find out more about the competitive dialog on the districts at Volkspark . An important aim of the participation event was to find a common understanding of the procedure, the task and the process, to promote personal exchange between citizens and to...

A modern home for excellent physics is being built in Science City: architectural design for HAFUN presented

Visualization of the HAFUN research building at the University of Hamburg, surrounded by trees and green spaces
HAFUN stands for "Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory".

Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld is becoming a new flagship for the networking of science, business, administration and civil society. With the new building HAFUN , another center for cutting-edge research in the field of physics is now being created here. The architectural design for the Hamburg Fundamental Interactions Laboratory (HAFUN) was presented on Friday by Science Senator Katharina Fegebank together with Prof. Dr. Hauke Heekeren, President of the...

A new meeting place for everyone: Infocenter Science City officially opened

Photo of the guests of honor symbolically cutting a ribbon at the entrance door for the opening.
Opening of the Science City Inofecenter in Bahrenfeld with Dr. Andreas Kleinau HafenCity GmbH, Ms. von Berg, Head of the District Office Altona, Dr. Dosch Desy.

Urban development as a hands-on and immersive experience. Directly opposite the Bahrenfeld harness racing track, Infocenter Science City at Albert-Einstein-Ring 10 has opened as a meeting point and information center open to everyone. On Thursday, June 30, 2022, Dr. Stefanie von Berg, Head of the District Office Altona, Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors, Prof. Dr. Heinrich...

Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld grow

Photo of the entrance area of the building
DFZ Architekten designed a modern building with a communicative spatial structure. The Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld offers office space as well as complex laboratory and workshop rooms.

The joint innovation center of DESY, the City of Hamburg and the University of Hamburg at Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld creates additional laboratory and space capacities on the research campus for start-ups in the life sciences. The Hamburg Senate is funding the rapid expansion of the Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld by 360 square meters with 700,000 euros. In total, the DESY campus in...

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