Competence Center Cultural Landscape (CULT)

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Today's modern age is causing great changes in cultural landscapes. The use of landscapes through intensification of land use (agriculture, forestry, settlements, energy generation etc.) leads to ever more profound changes in these high-quality cultural landscapes. Characteristics such as historical elements and diversity, which determine value are irretrievably lost.

The Competence Centre Cultural Landscape works on these current social challenges of sustainable development of the cultural landscape in a cooperative network. To this end, we organise specialist events and further training and thus promote the development of professional standards.

Upcoming Events

Here you can find the current events of the CULT:

4 September 2025: 7th Road and Landscape Conference ‘Water as a key factor for a more sustainable development of transport infrastructure’

The seventh ‘Road and Landscape’ conference will take place at Hochschule Geisenheim University on 4 September 2025. Under the title ‘Water as a key factor for a more sustainable development of transport infrastructure’, the event is dedicated to current challenges in dealing with water in road construction. In view of climate change and its effects on the water balance, water is increasingly becoming a strategic element in the focus of planning and construction. Experts from administration, science and practice will discuss technical solutions, nature conservation aspects and new forms of cooperation in presentations and examples. The conference is aimed at experts from road construction, water management, landscape conservation and related fields. It starts at 10:00 a.m., participation costs 50 euros and is possible with prior registration until 27 August. The venue is lecture theatre 50 on the campus of Hochschule Geisenheim University.
Register online by 27 August 2025 at: veranstaltungen.hs-geisenheim.de/event/7-sl2025

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Hochschule Geisenheim University’s new laboratory offers ideal conditions for fruit researchers

The Federal State of Hessen is investing around 1.3 million Euros in this new building

Science Minister Boris Rhein has officially opened Hochschule Geisenheim University’s new crop and field laboratory. In future this is where harvested crops will be brought in, scrutinized and tested before being prepared for storage and packed.  Hessen’s Ministry for Science and Art is providing around 1.3 million Euros from HEUREKA, its university building program.

Science Minister Boris Rhein: “I am delighted to be able to officially hand over the new building to students and staff in time for the main season. The new facility offers ideal conditions for the research activities of the Department of Pomology which is doing excellent work in the area of sustainable production research.”

The new building in Falterstrasse includes a storage facility for machines and vehicles as well as workspaces and communal areas. Our research staff in the new crop and field lab will be developing processing and harvesting technologies for fruit production, analyzing samples from fruit crop trials and developing storage conditions for different types of fruit.

The main focus is on berries, pomes and drupes: the researchers are currently breeding apples, pears, redcurrants and gooseberries. Based on this work, they are also conducting research into new cultivation systems, the relationship between irrigation and crop yields and the effects of climate change on certain types of fruit.

The new crop and field lab marks another step in the structural expansion of Hochschule Geisenheim University. Planning is also currently well under way for another four new buildings: over the next few years we’ll see a new Beverage Technology building (GTZ), a new Food Safety building, a new Logistics and Sustainability building, as well as a new lecture theater building. Construction work is due to start in 2019.

“The structural expansion of Hochschule Geisenheim University is one of the flagship projects being driven by our latest HEUREKA funding program for higher education building and the ‘Higher Education Pact 2020’ investment program. The new Beverage Technology Center, in particular, will be a cutting-edge building: in future, students will be able to study Sekt and fruit juice production in state-of-the-art facilities and learn all about coffee roasting in the coffee laboratory. Overall we are providing 75 million Euros for the expansion of Hochschule Geisenheim University, thus building on the scientific achievements for which the name ‘Geisenheim’ stands and which have gained it world-wide recognition,” Science Minister Boris Rhein concluded.

 

 

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