Hannover Region and City of Garbsen at leading trade fair Exporeal

In 2019, the city of Garbsen acquired the site with the support of the Hannover Region. Since 2020, 5,300 people have been studying, teaching and working on the directly adjacent new mechanical engineering campus of Leibniz Universität Hannover. As part of the TU9 Alliance, this is one of the nine leading technical universities in Germany. Garbsen is therefore home to a mechanical engineering lighthouse, primarily focusing on production, energy and process engineering, but also on production logistics, design and development. But that's not all: adjacent to the south in Hanover-Marienwerder, the science park along Hollerith-Allee, now known as Science Area 30X, has developed very successfully in recent years. The innovation center of the automotive supplier Forvia recently opened there. The expansion of the technology center of hannoverimpuls has recently been completed and the largest and last building of the new Technopark is currently under construction. Another LUH campus area, the Opticum, will also be built on Pascalstrasse in the next few years.

Jonas Kirchberg, City of Garbsen

Ulf-Birger Franz, Head of Economic Affairs, knows:

"Especially under the current difficult conditions, technology, innovation, research and development are the strong anchors in stormy times. This cluster of business and science in Hannover and Garbsen has enormous potential for the entire Hannover Region in the coming years.

Claudio Provenzano, Mayor of the City of Garbsen, adds:

"As a young university town, we want to work together with the real estate industry to develop innovative spaces and properties for the best minds. As a liveable and family-friendly city, Garbsen offers all the framework conditions for optimal long-term development in conjunction with close spatial and content-related cooperation between science and business."

In 2021, the city and region took up the urban development concept that was developed for the mechanical engineering campus and updated it for the expansion areas. The site offers space for up to six buildings with a gross floor area of between 7,000 and 12,500 square meters, including up to 3,500 square meters of student accommodation. In future, additional facilities for student teams and tech start-ups are to be created directly on the mechanical engineering campus. But above all, the new technology park will need space for cooperation between business and science and rooms to try things out - so-called maker spaces, experimental and real laboratories.

The Hannover Region and the city of Garbsen now want to make initial contacts at Exporeal in order to pitch their ideas to investors. An official investor selection process is due to start at the beginning of 2023 at the latest, in which interested companies can apply to develop the sites with their concepts. Ulf-Birger Franz: "Long-term economic growth is largely determined by the dynamics of technological progress and innovation. The Hannover Region wants to take advantage of this by deliberately providing impetus to improve this dynamic with the Technology Park on the Mechanical Engineering Campus. Claudio Provenzano is also convinced of this: "We simply have to take up the development of a technology park at the Mechanical Engineering Campus in order to strengthen the university location in Garbsen in the long term and to inspire young talent to come to Garbsen."