Franziska Giffey visiting Cottbus

Together with local politicians, the Berlin SPD state chairman also found out about the planned Lausitz Science Park.

At the invitation of Tobias Schick, SPD, Franziska Giffey visited the city of Cottbus on Thursday, September 29, 2022. Also on the agenda was the planned Berlin-Lausitz innovation axis, the two poles of which will be the Berlin Technology Park Adlershof and the Lausitz Science Park, which is currently under construction.

The Vice President for Research and Transfer of the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Prof. Dr. Michael Hübner, together with Doreen Mohaupt, Head of the Urban Development Department of the City of Cottbus. At the former Cottbus airfield, where the Lausitz Science Park is to be built, the delegation got an idea of ​​the area that will form the new district around the technology park in the future.

Franziska Giffey was impressed by the developments at the Lausitz Science Park and the close coordination with the Berlin-Adlershof Technology Park: "Cooperation in the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan region is important, especially in the areas of business, energy and security. Together we can become the strongest technology location: Adlershof and Lausitz Science Park."

Tobias Schick is certain: "We can shape the future here. We can establish jobs from science with companies in Cottbus. Not only will this be sustainable, it will be for generations. It will boom here."

Background to the planned innovation axis Berlin - Lausitz

An initiative made up of representatives from municipalities, companies and scientific institutions from Berlin and Brandenburg is committed to an axis of innovation from Berlin to Lusatia. This should help to shape the far-reaching structural change in view of the phase-out of lignite-fired power generation. Among other things, the initiative wants to create a corridor of innovation and sustainability along the Berlin-Lausitz axis.

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On the site of the former airfield in Cottbus, where the Lausitz Science Park is to be built, from left to right: Gunnar Kurth (head of the SPD parliamentary group in the city council of the city of Cottbus), Doreen Mohaupt (city of Cottbus, head of the urban development department), Tobias Schick ( SPD), Franziska Giffey (state chairwoman of the Berlin SPD) and Prof. Dr. Michael Hübner (Vice President for Research and Transfer at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg).
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