Ed­u­ca­tion and sience

Knowl­edge-build­ing sci­ence

Ro­s­tock is a his­toric cen­tre for sci­ence, with a num­ber of dif­fer­ent re­search in­sti­tutes. Stu­dents and sci­en­tists have been shap­ing the Hanseatic city since the found­ing of the uni­ver­sity 600 years ago.

To­day, nu­mer­ous re­search in­sti­tu­tions and other uni­ver­si­ties have joined the ranks of this sci­en­tific hub, mak­ing Ro­s­tock the most im­por­tant cen­tre for in­no­va­tion in Meck­len­burg-Vor­pom­mern and in­deed the en­tire Baltic re­gion. The uni­ver­si­ties and in­sti­tutes are key part­ners for in­no­v­a­tive busi­nesses, cre­ate at­trac­tive jobs, and de­fine the char­ac­ter of a mod­ern hanseatic city. Non-uni­ver­sity es­tab­lish­ments also par­tic­i­pate in in­ter­dis­ci­pli­nary re­search, con­tribut­ing sig­nif­i­cantly to Ro­s­tock’s rep­u­ta­tion.

A sig­nif­i­cant num­ber of Ger­many's most promi­nent re­search in­sti­tutes are con­duct­ing re­search in var­i­ous fields of sci­ence in Ro­s­tock, from foun­da­tions to ap­pli­ca­tion. This broad spec­trum of­fers as­pir­ing sci­en­tists at­trac­tive fu­ture prospects and also sup­plies com­pa­nies in the re­gion with highly qual­i­fied spe­cial­ists.

A unique in­fra­struc­ture for re­search­ing and de­vel­op­ing state-of-the-art un­der­wa­ter tech­nolo­gies is cur­rently be­ing built in the hanseatic city in the form of the ‘Ocean Tech­nol­ogy Cam­pus Ro­s­tock’. Its cen­tre­piece will be an un­der­wa­ter test­ing field at the Fraun­hofer In­sti­tute for Com­puter Graph­ics Re­search 15 me­tres deep in the Baltic Sea just out­side the city. The real con­di­tions there will fa­cil­i­tate ef­fi­cient re­search into new sen­sors, sys­tems and al­go­rithms for dig­i­tal un­der­wa­ter tech­nol­ogy. 

‘Gar­dens’ are typ­i­cal fields of ap­pli­ca­tions, ad­dress­ing the needs of off­shore wind en­ergy, op­er­a­tors of sub­ma­rine ca­bles and pipelines, and bomb squads. The lat­ter is of tremen­dous im­por­tance for the Baltic Sea, as hun­dreds of thou­sands of tonnes of am­mu­ni­tion was dumped there af­ter the World Wars. The re­search in Ro­s­tock will help en­sure these con­t­a­m­i­nated sites are han­dled safely.

The [Ro­s­tock denkt 365°] as­so­ci­a­tion co-or­di­nates co-op­er­a­tions be­tween the re­search in­sti­tutes, as well as co-op­er­a­tions with com­pa­nies and schools on site. It or­gan­ises reg­u­lar sci­ence-com­mu­ni­ca­tion events, runs work groups, and strength­ens Ro­s­tock’s role as a sci­en­tific hub with its var­i­ous pro­jects.