24 January 2025

The Co-Creation & Engagement Centre of the University of Hamburg and the Altona District Office are collaborating on a project funded by the Stifterverband to connect science and the neighbourhood in the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld. To do so, the project partners took part in a two-day kick-off event in Berlin (23–24 January 2025) for the ‘Transformation Laboratory University’ funding programme initiated by the Stifterverband.

The aim of the programme is to strengthen universities and local authorities in Germany as active and competent designers of regional transformation processes. Hamburg is participating with its ‘Science with the City’ project, which focuses on spatial concepts that can facilitate dialogue between scientists and citizens.

The programme is based on close cooperation between universities and local authorities. A total of eight cooperation projects were selected from 51 submissions to test innovative approaches to shaping their regions in a one-year process. Each partnership contributes a specific transformation project that aims to provide input for the future through participatory formats, innovative governance structures or new models of cooperation.

More about the project here: https://www.stifterverband.org/transformationslabor-hochschule/projekte-2025

Press releases on the kick-off event in Berlin here: https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025/01/23/transformationslabor-hochschule-geht-in-die-zweite-runde-stifterverband-foerdert-acht-hochschulen and here: https://www.hamburg.de/politik-und-verwaltung/bezirke/altona/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/science-with-the-city-1012958