The construction of the medical campus reflects the structure and development of the Faculty of Medicine, which was founded in 2016. In the coming years, a state-of-the-art medical campus with teaching and research institutes occupying around 78,000 square metres in the immediate vicinity of the Augsburg University Hospital will serve to educate future doctors and support medical research, both of which are prerequisites for modern, high-quality health care. The new medical campus will enable close interaction between research, teaching, and clinical practice. The teaching building (LGB) occupies 7,000 square metres and is the first building of the new medical campus. It offers optimal conditions for medical training.

Markus Blume, Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts:

“We are developing a completely new medical training facility from the ground up with a large faculty and university hospital. It is unique in Germany: 1,500 study places, 100 professors, and fully new infrastructure. Our aim: We are thinking about tomorrow’s cutting-edge medicine today and investing heavily in construction and education. Today’s opening of the new €80 million teaching building is just the beginning. By 2031, we will have invested over €545 million in construction projects to do with the medical campus in Augsburg. Then there is the billion-euro Augsburg University Hospital project. The Faculty of Medicine is also rapidly expanding when it comes to human resources: two-thirds of the planned 100 professorships are already filled. Augsburg will be a new centre for medical excellence: modern, future-orientated, and strongly anchored in the region. In times of great transformation, this is more important than ever. We are bringing cutting-edge care and education to the people, not the other way around!” 
 

Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, President of the University of Augsburg:

“The opening of the new medical campus marks an important milestone for the University of Augsburg and the region. The development of university medicine not only marks a significant contribution to the development of our university but is also of great importance for high-quality health care provision in the Bavarian-Swabian region. This is a place where education, research, and clinical practice will be linked with one another at the highest level in order to shape the medicine of tomorrow.”
 

Prof Martina Kadmon, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine:

“The new teaching building offers our students and teachers an ideal teaching and learning environment for challenging medical studies that will prepare the doctors of the future. The state-of-the-art facilities and wonderful library with a well-equipped interprofessional training centre and, above all else, in close proximity to the Augsburg University Hospital provides an excellent basis for integrating theoretical and practical education in medicine and the health care professions.”
 

Uwe Fritsch, Head of the Staatliches Bauamt Augsburg:

“I am delighted that the team from the Staatliches Bauamt Augsburg (State Construction Authority Augsburg) is able to make the teaching building available for the beginning of the lecture period on the 14th of October. With this construction project, we have created a building that is tailored to meeting the needs of the Faculty of Medicine while also meeting the requirements of sustainable construction.”  

The new teaching building

The modern building, designed for the coming generations of medical students, offers a variety of different learning spaces across 7,000 square metres: a cross-floor atrium offers attractive spaces for self-study and for meeting and engaging with other students. A generous staircase in the middle of the atrium is designed as a meeting point, which leads to the upper floors. A glass façade on the ground floor opens into the foyer with its adjoining cafeteria, campus lawn, and front terrace. Teaching rooms are located, above all else, on the first four floors. The library on the third and fourth floors offers study spaces and atmospheric views of nature. On the upper floors of the library, there is also access to a planted reading garden. Several group rooms and learning booths for individual or small-group use enable undisturbed collaborative work. 

The 31-metre-high east-facing section with its four upper floors houses the offices and rooms of the dean’s office and the Department of Medical Education (DEMEDA).

In a self-contained and restricted-access area on the first floor lies the Skills Lab. This is a central training facility in which specific skills and abilities will be taught in a practical way and which can be embedded in complex simulation situations. Realistic patient room situations will be re-enacted and practiced, which will make a significant contribution to patient health care later on. The new teaching building officially opens its doors at the beginning of the lecture period of the winter semester on the 14th of October.

The medical campus

The medical campus has been under development since 2020 within the immediate vicinity of the Augsburg University Hospital. During the planning phase, a strong focus was placed on the interlinking of teaching and clinical practice.

The buildings of the medical campus are being constructed along a promenade that runs in a north-south direction and connects the new buildings with the existing structures of the Augsburg University Hospital.

A variety of different structures at the medical campus contribute to creating a high-quality environment and a communicative meeting space: a campus lawn, play and sports equipment, shaded sitting areas under trees, specially designed outdoor furniture, as well as the art in architecture large-scale sculpture ‘3Droplets’ (three oversized droplets of blood) by Dagmar Schmidt invite people to linger. The new area also has a large-range of bicycle parking options with a green roof, as well as charging facilities for e-bikes.

By 2026, a state-of-the-art research building, the Institute for Theoretical Physics, will be added. The Institute for Theoretical Physics and the new teaching building (LGB) form the northern end of the urban campus. 

Art in Architecture

Following the art in architecture competition 2022, and alongside the large-scale sculpture ‘3Droplets’ by Dagmar Schmidt, two further art works have been created and added to area surrounding the new teaching building. At the entryway to the medical campus, visitors are met by the bright red sculpture ‘Fraktale Dimension’ by Gabriele Obermeier. In the atrium of the new teaching building, the glass artwork ‘Vernetzt Entflechten’ by Karen Irmer from Augsburg adorns the foyer.

Caption: Markus Blume, Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, with Prof Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, President of the University of Augsburg (left), Prof Martina Kadmon, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Dr Jörn Böke at the opening of the new teaching building for medicine © University of Augsburg

Caption: The new teaching building of the Faculty of Medicine © University of Augsburg