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

  • Greenwashing in food labelling

    Researchers at Göttingen University find climate traffic light system prevents consumer deception
    A research team led by the University of Göttingen found that the label ‘climate neutral’ makes food appear significantly more climate-friendly than it actually is. Even when information about how the damage to the climate is being offset was explained, this did not stop consumers having the wrong perception about the product. In contrast, a traffic light labelling system – from red (meaning very harmful to the climate) to green (meaning less…

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  • JUICE: A Look at our Blue Planet

    Evidence of life, ozone hole and magnetic shield: during its flyby of Earth, the space probe got to know our home from an unusual perspective.
    Approximately four weeks after the successful Moon and Earth flyby of ESA’s space probe Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), the scientific and technical teams at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have analyzed the first observational data from their two instruments on board. The data not only reveal that both the Submillimetre Wave Instrument (SWI) and the Jovian Electron and Ion Sensor (JEI) of the Particle…

    MPI mps

  • Primate experts publish action plan to protect langurs in Southeast Asia

    More field research, better education for the local population, soft tourism and sustainable networks could ensure the survival of the animals
    Ensuring the survival of 20 Asian langur species is the goal of an international team of primate experts and conservationists. In their recently published action plan, they identify the most important endangerment risks and show ways to prevent the species from becoming extinct. Habitat loss due to massive deforestation, hunting for the animals' meat, poaching for the pet trade and climate change are the biggest problems for the animals. The…

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  • Escaping from traps

    How molecular interactions make it possible to overcome the energy barrier
    Non-reciprocal interactions allow the design of more efficient molecular systems. In their new paper, scientists from the department “Living Matter Physics” at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) propose a mechanism on how energy barriers in complex systems can be overcome. These findings can help to engineer molecular machines and to understand the self-organization of active matter. In both physics and biology,…

    MPI ds

  • Sunrise III launches successfully

    The balloon-borne solar observatory is now flying westwards along the Arctic Circle. From the stratosphere, it has an incomparable view of the Sun.
    The balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has embarked on its research flight: at 6.24 AM (CEST) this morning, the observatory lifted off safely from Esrange Space Center near the small town of Kiruna in northern Sweden. Carried by a giant helium balloon, the stratospheric flight of several days now leads westwards along the Arctic Circle across the Atlantic to Canada. During the journey, Sunrise III will peer into a layer of the Sun that…

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