23.-25. May 2007 the spring meeting of the Wissenschaftsrat took place in Oldenburg and met among other things on the new joint grants of the Federal Government and the Federal States of new buildings in universities (on basis of Art. 91 b Abs. 1 Nr. 3 GG). In this competitive process 8 proposals of primary 19 proposals are now recommended - including the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) in Hanover/Lower Saxony.
The Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (LNQE) is a research center of the Leibniz Universität Hannover, which researches nanotechnology as an interdisciplinary transverse section of the university. Most Nanotechnology projects can only be successful in co-operation of different fields. The LNQE comprises 25 work groups from the science and engineering faculties, working together on nanotechnology problems already today in joint projects. With the new building a platform for an even more intensive co-operation will be created and top research on the fields of nanotechnology will be made possible.
For the Leibniz Universität Hannover is nanotechnology one of their scientific core excellences. With the recently granted federal funds a nanotechnology center in the heart of the federal capital of Lower Saxony will be co-financed. The construction sum is 12.8 Mio Euro. With the new building is a crucial, structural step forwards international expertise and competence on the field of nanotechnology attempted. The new building in the middle of the university district of Hanover is the first step towards a campus university and therefore of prime importance for the university. A part of the future concept of the university is the establishment of so called Leibniz-Schools which shall work on thematic core areas to promote interdisciplinary research on international top level. With the new building the university becomes a real, physical basis for this new structure.
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