Black Forest Campus opens

Exactly 16 months after construction work officially began, the Black Forest Campus in Freudenstadt was opened in the presence of Theresia Bauer, Minister of Science, Research and the Arts of the state of Baden-Württemberg. Prof. Hansgeorg Binz, Vice Rector at the University of Stuttgart, described the Black Forest Campus as a flagship for the wide range of courses offered by the University. "The Black Forest Campus enables us to merge industrial practice and university teaching in a special way, which results in a unique learning and research environment which is conducive to research-oriented teaching and teaching under real-life conditions." - At the Center for Teaching, Research and Technology Transfer for the mechanical engineering and manufacturing industry, research and teaching go hand in hand. The buildings consist of a block of lecture halls for master's degree students at the University of Stuttgart, as well as a development laboratory directly next to it, in which state-of-the-art machines and facilities are on hand for practical use. In addition to this, there are premises which start-ups can hire at cheap rates to fully concentrate on their business idea. The first lectures were held in the new rooms at the start of November 2019 in the specialist subject of "Digitalized and sustainable value creation" in the Mechanical Engineering master's degree program at the University of Stuttgart. This proximity of theory and practice is unique for a study program at master's degree level.