University campus Golm is growing – state buys another plot of land

The Golm campus of the University of Potsdam in the Potsdam Science Park is growing: On December 9, 2020, the state of Brandenburg acquired a plot of land of almost 4,300 square meters in the southwest of the university campus. The property is already designated in the land use plan as a special building area for universities and research. The University of Potsdam is currently growing strongly due to the expansion of teacher training and the new Joint Faculty of Health Sciences and continues to need additional space, especially in the Potsdam Science Park in Golm.

The President of the University of Potsdam, Prof. Oliver Günther, Ph.D., said: “We are very pleased about these additional room capacities, especially since they are located directly on our Golm campus. They are indeed urgently needed, as the university continues to grow and new construction projects in the higher education sector are unfortunately progressing very slowly. So it is not only spatially stuck in Golm. The Griebnitzsee, Am Neuen Palais and Rehbrücke campuses are also bursting at the seams. This makes it all the more important that we continue the good communication between the university, the state government and the state capital in the coming year as effectively as it did in the present case.”

Minister of Science Manja Schüle also expressed her delight: “An early Christmas present for the University of Potsdam and great news for Potsdam as a science location! Brandenburg’s largest university is expanding. The renewed increase in student numbers in the winter semester despite Corona is impressive proof of this – as is the planned expansion of teacher training and the new Joint Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Potsdam, BTU and MHB. With the purchase of the land, we are further strengthening teaching and research – despite Corona – and further upgrading the ‘Potsdam Science Park’ as a competitive innovation location. This is how the future is made in Brandenburg.”

The Minister of Finance, Katrin Lange, who is responsible for state real estate, emphasized: “It is important for Brandenburg as a science location that our universities, such as the University of Potsdam, have sufficient space and rooms available that make the growth we all want possible.” The purchase offers several advantages. “Firstly, we as a state are securing an area directly adjacent to the previous campus. And secondly, the existing buildings on the purchased property can be used at short notice.”

Pressemitteilung der Universität Potsdam

Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung MdFE und MWFK

 

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