Leibniz Universität Hannover – Forming the future with knowledge

In 1831, the well educated Karl Karmarsch founded the “Höhere Gewerbeschule zu Hannover” (“Higher Trade School of Hannover”). The only 64 high school students then have become now more than 24,000 college students. With this, the Leibniz Universität Hannover is one of the largest universities in Niedersachsen. Its attractiveness lies not only in the diversity of 60 subjects and more than 160 independent degree programs and partial courses of study, but also in the special qualities of the study offerings. The subject spectrum reaches from the natural sciences and engineering over humanities and social sciences to economics and law.

Also in the field of further education, the university offers numerous postgraduate and supplementary courses of study as well as career-accompanying further studies programs.

There are different research cooperations at the Universität Hannover. A research complex that is unique in Europe was opened in July 2004: the Produktionstechnischen Zentrum Hannover (PZH). Six departments of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and industry partners have the opportunity to research and apply ambitious production techniques on 22,000 square meters. They work directly with their customers, the students and the production industry together, for example in fields like new tool machinery, manufacturing engineering and production logistics for the automobile and airplane industry or for the entire field of electronics.

Since January 2002, the Forschungszentrum L3S (Research Center L3S) works as a competence center for innovative learning technologies in the former German Pavilion at the Expo grounds. In international connections, for example with Stanford University in the USA, a virtual campus has been created that makes e-learning possible for all subjects.

In close cooperation with the Laserzentrum e.V. and the Institut für Gravitationsphysik of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft has set up an international Zentrum für Gravitationswellen-Astronomie with a partial institute. The university is far ahead on the way to measure waves: the two times 600 meter long Detektor GEO 600 is working, which should capture the smallest differences through the influence of gravity waves.