Members of the EU Parliament get informed about Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld

The members of the "Panel for the Future of Science and Technology" (STOA) are concerned with science and technology assessment in the European Parliament. They now visited scientists from the University of Hamburg and the German Electron Synchrotron DESY. On the campus in Bahrenfeld, the chairman of STOA, Dr. Christian Ehler, and the vice-chairman, Ivo Hristov, took a look at the research facilities of the future. They were accompanied by Luisa Antunes, who as a policy analyst at STOA is part of the "Scientific Foresight Unit".

The group was guided through the modern building "Hamburg Advanced Research Centre for Bioorganic Chemistry", HARBOR, where they received information about the work of the Cluster of Excellence "CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter". Afterwards, they visited the student laboratory "Light & Schools", where they exchanged views on the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld with University President Hauke Heekeren, DESY Director Helmut Dosch and State Councilor Eva Gümbel.

During a tour through DESY's large PETRA III experimental hall, they got an idea of DESY's research infrastructure. This already offers unique investigation and experimentation possibilities to achieve progress in innovation, technology and medicine. Numerous university institutes and research facilities have therefore settled on the campus. In addition, further new facilities, centers and research buildings are to be built around the DESY campus by 2040. PETRA IV will be a central large-scale research facility in the future Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld.

Finally, the delegation visited the Start-Up Labs Bahrenfeld, where young founders presented their projects.