The origins of the veterinary clinics date back to 1780. In 1923, it was incorporated into the University of Leipzig where a separate campus was built for the new Faculty for Veterinary Medicine. Today, it is one of five veterinary training centers in Germany. Research focuses on emerging animal diseases and zoonoses in Europe, and their potential impact on agriculture, ecosystems and human health. The faculty is involved in knowledge transfer at the children’s project day “VetDay”, participation in the Children’s University and the studium universale, as well as the long night of Sciences.

The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI EVA) was founded in 1997. Researchers from over 30 countries and different disciplines work in seven departments. Their common goal is to explore the history of humanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. This involves comparative analyses of the genes, cultures, cognitive abilities and social systems of past and present human populations, as well as those of closely related primate groups. Of particular note is the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to the Institute’s founding director, Svante Pääbo, for his discoveries of the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.

The German National Library is the central archive library for all media works in German from Germany and abroad. The building complex also houses the German Music Archive and the German Museum for Books and Writing. Hence, the German National Library is a library, and archive, a museum, and a forum of public exchange. The German National Library is a place of freedom of information and expression, which aims to inspire and at the same time encourage critical thinking with a comprehensive program of events and hands-on activities.

The German National Library is the central archive library for all media works in German from Germany and abroad. The building complex also houses the German Music Archive and the German Museum for Books and Writing. Hence, the German National Library is a library, and archive, a museum, and a forum of public exchange. The German National Library is a place of freedom of information and expression, which aims to inspire and at the same time encourage critical thinking with a comprehensive program of events and hands-on activities.

The Leipzig City Archive is one of the largest communal archives in Germany. It offers comprehensive research services to its visitors, and invites them to “dive into the memory of the City”. Predominantly it preserves information about the communal administration and material to track the evolution of the city. They are bunded into 500 collections that comprise records of various kinds. Presently it is storing more than 4,000 certificates, 12,500 shelf meters of documents, books of accounting, news papers, and pamphlets, 90,000 maps and plans, 350,000 photos and post cards, as well as collections on the history of Leipzig since the founding of the city in 1165 till its recent past.

The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a leading research center of biodiversity sciences with a research focus on insights into the biological diversity of Earth. Researches from all over the world cooperate in building the scientific foundation of a sustainable development of the biological diversity. Moreover, the conter reaches out to the civil society – for instance in its internationally oriented media relations or in events like the Long Night of Sciences, the Leipzig Book Fair or SPIN 2030.

The INSPIRATA is a non-profit association that has set itself the task of supporting mathematical and scientific education. This objective is realized in the format of a hands-on museum, where children of all ages can engage in exciting experiments. The museum also offers group tours and workshops for school classes, as well as other activities in the STEM subjects. In the permanent exhibition, which is always open on Saturdays for young and old, you too can rekindle your enthusiasm for the natural sciences.