Documentation of the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts now online

Cover page of the brochure on the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts

The documentation provides an insight into the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts The competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts was launched in autumn 2023. Six international planning teams took part and developed ideas for the urban and open space design as well as the distribution of uses in the Volkspark neighborhoods. The competition was subject to intensive public...

Science Action Day: Laserday at the European XFEL

Photo of the laser show on the evening of the Science Action Day at Europena XFEL.
The Laserday guests were enchanted by the laser show over the campus.

Large crowds at Laserday and full program in spring Experience science up close at the European XFEL Hands-on science is a crowd puller in the Hamburg metropolitan region. This was demonstrated by the huge crowds at Laserday, the first major day of science events at the Lighthouse Science Experience Center. More than 1,200 visitors were attracted to the event in the new building of the European...

Foundation stone laid for the CAST research building

Visualization of a research building
In the new Center for Accelerator Research at DESY, the new CAST building, visitors can view the operation of the research infrastructure through glass walls.

On January 17, the foundation stone for the new CAST building was laid on the DESY campus. Despite the winter weather ...

Groundbreaking ceremony for DESY Innovation Factory

Photo of important personalities together preparing the spade for the start of construction.
Snapshot: Groundbreaking ceremony for the DESY Innovation Factory

Integrated technology and start-up center brings new ideas from research into practice It was only a small ground-breaking ceremony for those involved, but a big step for DESY and Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld on their way to becoming a beacon for innovation in the west of Hamburg. Together, representatives from DESY, the federal government and the City of Hamburg...

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...

Opening of the Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld

Exterior view of the Startup Labs Bahrenfeld in summer.
The newly opened Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld building.

The future is moving in here: The Start-up Labs Bahrenfeld, a joint project of DESY, the University of Hamburg and the City of Hamburg, is the new place for scientific entrepreneurship on the research campus of DESY. The innovation center for deep-tech start-ups will also raise the profile of the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld . The start-up labs were officially opened on September 20....

Public Science City workshops

People stand around a card and exchange ideas. Notes are stuck on the card.

Between August 28 and September 2, 2021, three public Science City workshops on the topics of 'Science City of Neighborhoods', 'Knowledge, Work, Life' and 'Reaching and Networking' took place on site at the Bahrenfeld trotting track. In the workshops, citizens were able to gather information and contribute their ideas and visions for the development of Science City, in particular for the 'neighborhoods at Volkspark'. In addition to keynote speeches by experts from the authorities and science...

Final spurt for Science City Day on June 1, 2024

Science City Day poster

Next Saturday, June 1, 2024, Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld will open its doors for the first time from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and invites all Hamburg residents to visit

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...

HARBOR opened as a center for nanophysics, chemistry and structural biology

Campus of the future Science City project continues to take shape with Hamburg Advanced Research Center for Bioorganic Chemistry (HARBOR).
Campus of the future Science City project continues to take shape with Hamburg Advanced Research Center for Bioorganic Chemistry (HARBOR).

The new research building "Hamburg Advanced Research Center for Bioorganic Chemistry (HARBOR)" of the University of Hamburg on the Bahrenfeld campus was digitally opened today. This makes it possible to apply the physical sciences to questions in the life sciences. In addition, the project of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter" to create a molecular film of processes in physics and biochemistry will...

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