Press release: Funding awarded for Human Cognition and Behavior building

No. 104 - 02.07.2021

GWK funds Göttingen University’s new centre for human social cognition research

The Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz (Joint Science Conference, GWK) of the German Government and the Länder has awarded funding for the Human Cognition and Behavior (HuCaB) research building at the University of Göttingen. The new building will be home to an interdisciplinary centre for research into human social cognition. In addition, the funding will enable the acquisition of several large pieces of equipment. This includes a magnetoencephalograph (MEG) for recording brain activity with millisecond precision, without noise and without physical contact with the participant.

The new building, with a total area of around 3,500 square metres, is to be built on the University's central campus between Goßlerstraße and Heinrich-Düker-Weg. According to current estimates, the total costs will be in the region of 37 million euros. Construction is scheduled to begin in autumn 2022 and to be completed in mid-2025.

The GWK’s press release (in German):

www.gwk-bonn.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Dokumente/Pressemitteilungen/pm2021-07.pdf

In April 2021, the German Council of Science and Humanities recommended that the research building be funded with a rating that was "overall outstanding" (in German): www.wissenschaftsrat.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/PM_2021/PM_1121.html

University of Göttingen’s press release 26 April 2021:

https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html?id=6241

Contact:

Professor Annekathrin Schacht
University of Göttingen

Georg-Elias-Müller-Institute of Psychology

Goßlerstraße 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany

Tel: +49 (0)551 39-23611

Email: schacht@psych.uni-goettingen.de

https://www.psych.uni-goettingen.de/en/anap/team/schacht-annekathrin?set_language=en