Parklife

Berlin and Potsdam are just a short journey from Golm, so many scientists come to us. However, the Potsdam Science Park also offers a variety of housing opportunities. The Studentenwerk Potsdam rents furnished rooms, 1-room apartments and shared flats in four residential complexes to students. For those who want a little more comfort, there are fully equipped micro apartments in the Potsdam Science Park. To the south of the Park the private provider BaseCamp offers 263 furnished rooms and to the northeast The Twenty has more than 400 furnished apartments available. Both locations provide excellent opportunities to meet new people in the shared common rooms or at the BaseCamp roof terrace, cinema room or fitness room.

Guests visiting us for a short time can stay in the Guest House on the Max Planck Campus. The rooms are furnished and have either a private or shared bathroom and a weekly cleaning service. The rooms are open to scientists from the Potsdam Science Park and can also be booked for guests, if available. A private hotel, The Landhotel Potsdam, offers comfortable rooms outside the Potsdam Science Park, only 700 meters from the train station.

At the Potsdam Science Park, you have several options to enjoy lunch with colleagues at lunchtime. There are three canteens to choose from: at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, the Fraunhofer Campus and the University of Potsdam Mensa Golm. All have beautiful outdoor spaces for use during good weather. The cafeteria in the library serves breakfast, snacks and drinks, which can also be enjoyed outside in good weather on wooden benches under the maple trees. In the reading café in Haus 14a, students cook vegan organic dishes during the lecture period. A few steps further on, in the village of Golm, the Landhotel Potsdam kitchen team cooks local dishes based on Slow Food principles.

A good quality of life depends on good local shopping opportunities. In the middle of the Science Park Potsdam, the REWE supermarket offers you everything you need for your daily life, from morning till night. This is where scientists, students and families from the surrounding residential areas meet. There is also a bakery in the market that offers fresh baked goods and coffee specialties all day long – even on Sunday mornings.

Around the Park you can simply go jogging through fields and forests or visit the shores of the Großer Zernsee. But fitness enthusiasts can also get their money’s worth at the University of Potsdam fitness club goFIT. The goFIT is open seven days a week and offers modern equipment and high-quality support for students and employees of cooperating institutions. The Center for University Sports at the University of Potsdam also organizes a broad-ranging fitness program at the Golm campus – from bouldering and martial arts to Pilates and table tennis. The exercise experts of the Center for University Sports will even come to the workplace for express courses on relaxation, back strengthening and mobilization.