The Göttingen Campus

The Göttingen location has come to be synonymous with high-quality international research. To ensure that this remains the case in the future, the University of Göttingen, including the University Medical Center, and seven non-university local research centres have joined forces to form the Göttingen Campus.

By drawing on their joint strengths and potential, campus partners have created a unique and stimulating environment that encourages diversity and an active exchange between professors, researchers and doctoral students.

Across the Göttingen Campus, there are currently more than 5,900 researchers working in nearly every scientific discipline.

Within the Göttingen Campus, the quality of teaching and training of early career scientists is assured and continuously improved by joint graduate programmes and inter-institute junior research groups.

Science on campus benefits from excellent joint third-party funded projects and 23 joint professorships between the University and non-university institutions.

Latest news

  • A century for science

    The MPI-DS celebrates its 100th anniversary on July 16th
    One hundred years ago, the institute invited guests in the auditorium on Wilhelmsplatz to celebrate the opening of the institute. A century later, Eberhard Bodenschatz, managing director of the MPI-DS, welcomed over 300 guests back to the same venue. Among them was Falko Mohrs, Minister for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony. “We are proud to have you here as a Max Planck Institute,” said Mohrs in his speech. Patrick Cramer, President of the Max…

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  • Three ERC Proof of Concept grants awarded to Göttingen University

    Innovation to benefit green technology, drug development, biomedical imaging, materials science
    University of Göttingen Professors – Lutz Ackermann, Timo Betz and Jörg Enderlein – have each been awarded Proof of Concept (PoC) grants by the European Research Council (ERC). These grants provide top-up funding of €150,000 over 18 months to outstanding researchers, who have already received ERC funding, so that they can build on the innovation potential of their findings. This enables Europe’s top scientists to develop initiatives that boost…

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  • Beyond the alpha male

    New study shows: Power relations between males and females in primates are more complex than thought
    The widespread assumption that males always take on the dominant role in primates has been refuted by new research findings. Scientists from the German Primate Center in Göttingen, the University of Montpellier and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have investigated the power relations between males and females in 121 primate species in a large study. Their results show that clear dominance of one sex over the…

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  • PLATO Payload Integration Marks Key Step Toward Launch

    The space probe’s optical bench is now connected to the service module. Starting in 2027, the European mission will search for Earth-like worlds outside our Solar System.
    The European exoplanet mission PLATO, which will be launched into space at the end of next year, has reached an important milestone. The optical bench with its 26 cameras has now been assembled in the clean rooms of the aerospace company OHB System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany). The cameras are the eyes of the mission. They will enable PLATO to peer at a total of a quarter of a million stars in the Milky Way and detect exoplanets in the stars’…

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  • Listening to each other

    Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions. Thousands of cells coordinate, move and exert mechanical forces on each other as an embryo takes shape. Researchers at the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN), the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, and the University of Marburg have now discovered a new way that embryonic…

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