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University history in the city archive

Since 1995, H-BRS in Sankt Augustin has been impacting the development of the city while writing its own history at the same time. In order to permanently protect this history from loss, make it accessible and make it available for general and academic use, the university has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Sankt Augustin City Archive. A classic win-win situation – H-BRS gains an experienced partner for archiving its historically relevant documents, and the city can document a significant part of its own history. The ink was not yet dry on the contract when city archivist Michael Korn brought the first archive material to its new, safe home by bicycle. Researching the future of science communication – that is the task of the newly founded “Rhine-Ruhr Centre for Science Communication Research”. Professor Oliver Ruf is jointly responsible for setting up the new research institute on the H-BRS side. The goal is a research network between the Rhine and the Ruhr that researches science communication across disciplines and produces new formats for exchange among science, media and society. A special focus will be on the humanities and social sciences. The Institute for Media Research and Development at H-BRS is working on this together with the Institute for Journalism at TU Dortmund University, the International Science Forum (FIW) at the University of Bonn and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. It is being funded for five years with 15 million euros from the Volkswagen Foundation.