Events in and around Jena
Jena Will Become "City of Science 2008":
In an eagerly expected decision
the Thuringian university
city succeeded in March over
its competitor Potsdam. Connected
with the award of the
Association of Sponsors for the
Promotion of German Science is
a price money of 250.000 Euros.
The award is made for cities that
use the science as a motor for
their development.
For Jena and Potsdam it is already
the second application for
this award. Both cities assumed
to need a budget of about 1.3
Million Euros for the program.
Half a million each was supposed
to be financed by sponsors from
the industry. According to the
jury Jena convinced with creativity
and a far advanced planning
for the realisation of the project.
Jena is the scientific center of
Thuringia. Among the 120.000
residents are 20 percent students, another 20 percent have
a scientific degree. Beneath
the Friedrich-Schiller-University
which celebrates its 450th
anniversary next year and the
university of applied sciences,
30 research facilities have their
residence here. Among these
are three Max-Planck- Institutes,
two Leibniz-Institutes and one
Fraunhofer-Institute.
The cooperation of the businessman
Carl Zeiss and the scientists
Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott in
the 19th century laid the foundation
stone for several companies
which since have influenced the
development of optical technologies
worldwide.
www.jena.de Optik & Photonik June 2007 No. 2 © 2007 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
28.03- 31.08: "Historical foray into the chemistry lab"
Special exhibition entitled “Museums on the Move” in the mobile exhibition pavilion of the Carl Bosch Museum, Heidelberg. Medieval “fire assaying” in medicine and mining us considered to have given birth to the chemistry lab. From medieval alchemy to the invention of the porcelain and modern science-based chemistry, the “Museum on the Move” provides fascinating insights into the development of the laboratory.
10.05- 01.12: "University Treasures and Visions"
A presentation of selected exhibits from the university collection which in a very special way embody Jena’s contributions to the development of science.
13.05-17.05: “The European Store of Knowledge”
The annual meeting of the Coimbra Group, which is an association of 38 European Universities, will take place in Jena in May 2008. The “Gallery of Geniuses” features 38 European geniuses from the world of research and science in the market square. 38 groundbreaking inventions will be projected by laser into a glass table and they can be viewed from 15 May till December 2008 in the science lounge Ipomea Tricolor in the Volksbad building.
16.05: Jena Museum Night
17.05: Parade of Jena Spirits of Scholarship
24.05: Flugplatzfest
6.09: Queen Classic Night
7.11: Science in the Underworld