Wirtschaftsstandort Oldenburg

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Die Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg ist mit fast 14 000
Studenten die größte Hochschule im Nordwesten.
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg has nearly 14,000 students
and is the largest university in the North West.
SCIENCE IS THE MOTOR DRIVING FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
Science is an increasingly vital location factor in the
competition between cities and regions. The North
West is well positioned with a large number of research
institutes – resulting among others from Oldenburg’s
year as “City of Science”.
It cannot be said that the Oldenburger Land has produced
a particularly large number of Nobel laureates. With one
exception, Carl von Ossietzky, they tend to come more
from Göttingen, Munich or Berlin. Does anybody mind?
Does it say anything about the significance of science
in the region? Of course not. Particularly not in view of
the fact that in 2008, Oldenburg was awarded the title
“City of Science“ for the following year by Germany’s
“Stifter verband” (business community initiative advocating
long-term improvement of the German education and
research landscape), thanks to a concept concentrating
less on the merits of the past but which rather more
entailed betting on the future.
Or, to quote the application document submitted to the
“Stifterverband“, a “vision for the whole city, and a dialogue
between scientists and society to advance its development”.
After all, the “task of responsible science is to
develop future concepts”. The “Stifterverband“ was very
impressed with these thoughts, particularly because the