CENTER OF EXCELLENCE Magdeburg Port of Science

Magdeburg Port of Science | Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße | 39106 Magdeburg
HERE business meets science.

Centre for innovation and knowledge transfer

The old trading port in Magdeburg is conquering new frontiers. With the Port of Science, a centre for innovation and knowledge transfer is being created in direct proximity to the university on the site built by the Elbe at the end of the 19th century. As a new urban quarter, the former port area offers space for science and business but also for living and services, leisure and tourism.

New life is moving into the dockside warehouses. Research institutions and knowledge-based companies have settled under the roof of the “think tank”.  Additionally, a new research campus for interdisciplinary medical engineering found its home on the site of former sugar store - the Research Campus STIMULATE. So it is a port full of dynamism and change, clearly a CENTER OF EXCELLENCE.

Simone Borris, Lord Mayor of the City of Magdeburg

"Urbanity meets high-tech and the future: With the development of the old commercial port into the Port of Science, we are combining living with working and research, creating a new urban quarter with a very special atmosphere. Today, the future of tomorrow is being researched in old warehouses. New production and logistics processes are being tested here and pioneering medical technology is being developed."

QUICK CHECK

33

Total surface area in hectare

20

Investments in m. € (from public funds)

450

Jobs

FOCUS SECTORS

  • Research and teaching
  • Knowledge and technology transfer
  • Services
  • Living
  • Leisure and tourism

PARTNER NETWORKS

SUCCESS STORIES

   

New thinking in the factory

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New thinking in the factory

Completely new thinking is taking place in the “think tank” at the Port of Science. Following the complete renovation and redevelopment of the former store building and the practical reconstruction of the old grain silo, the city of Magdeburg is offering modern research premises and rooms for innovative companies on an area of 4,600 square metres. Several spin-offs from Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and various service providers have settled. The biggest tenant in the industrial monument at the port is ifak, the Institute for Automation and Communication.

metraTec makes objects communicate

On a grey background there is written: metraTec makes objects communicate

metraTec makes objects communicate

The “electronisation of everyday life” – this is the name given by the metraTec team to a trend that is seeing more and more objects become small computers with special functions. And these functions demand that the objects be able to perceive their environment: they should be able to identify other objects, determine their location in the building, exchange data with each other – and of course all using a mobile power supply. To implement this vision, metraTec is developing the customised radio electronics in order to give all conceivable everyday objects these “skills of the future”.

www.metratec.com

Virtual Development and Training Centre

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Virtual Development and Training Centre

At the Port of Science, technical systems are tested before the exist. This takes place at the Virtual Development and Training Centre (VDTC) of the Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation (IFF). The mixed-reality laboratory with a 360 degree laser projection wall has the shape of a huge semi-circle with a diameter of 16 metres and a height of over four metres. The dimensions allow the virtual-interactive presentation of large objects such as machines, systems, factories and even entire cities on a 1:1 scale. Here, scientists work on an interdisciplinary basis with industrial users and innovative service providers and visualise technical solutions even before they have been developed.

www.iff.fraunhofer.de/elbedom

CONTACT to Magdeburg Port of Science

Wissenschaftshafen Magdeburg
Magdeburg Port of Science

State Capital Magdeburg
Department for Urban Development, Construction and Transport, Urban Planning Bureau
An der Steinkuhle 6
039128 Magdeburg

Telefon: +49 391 540 5407
E-Mail: info.ignore@wissenschaftshafen.de

www.wissenschaftshafen.de