Göttingen

The ResEff 2013 will take place in Göttingen in southern Lower Saxonia. Göttingen is the fifth largest city of Lower Saxonia and is located round about 100 km south of Hannover in the three-state-corner of Lower Saxonia, Thüringen and Hessen.

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Founded in 1737, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject spectrum particularly in the humanities, its excellent facilities for the pursuit of scientific research, and the outstanding quality of the areas that define its profile. From 2007 to 2012 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen was rewarded funding from the Initiative of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments with its institutional strategy for the future entitled “Göttingen.Tradition – Innovation – Autonomy”. The University was able to realise all measures of the concept. Now Göttingen University will develop the successfully established measures further to continously advance the University’s positive developments in research and teaching.

City of Göttingen

120.000 people live in the pulsating student city Göttingen. A famous sightseeing object is the Gänseliesel-Fountain. Each new doctor who achieves his or her promotion at the university has to climb the fountain and kiss the figure. Other famous sightseeing are the Karzer, a kind of student prison where Reichskanzler Otto von Bismarck is said to have been imprisoned, and the Lower Saxonian State- and University library, where an original of the Gutenberg-bible is being kept.