European Centre for Advanced Studies.
Empowering Scholars to Shape the Future.
…So on a day when newcomers appear
Let it be a homecoming and let us speak…
Move lips, move minds and make new meanings flare
Like ancient beacons signalling peak to peak,
From Middle sea to North sea, shining clear
As phoenix flame upon fionn uisce here.
– Seamus Heaney
We are meant to know,
or we are amoebae.
Isaac Asimov
Hanover/Lüneburg/Edinburgh, 21st November 2025 The European Centre for Advanced Studies (ECAS), recently relocated to the International Center of Leuphana University Lüneburg (Leuphana), is being developed into a central hub for scientific cooperation between Lower Saxony and Scotland. This transformation is supported by funding from zukunft.niedersachsen, the joint funding programme of the Lower Saxonian Ministry of […]
Lüneburg, 23 July 2025 As the United Kingdom and Germany embark on a renewed era of partnership through the recently signed Treaty on Friendship and Bilateral Cooperation, special attention is being paid to a notable example of regional collaboration: the Lower Saxony – Scotland Research and Innovation Scheme. The initiative is listed first among several regional cooperation examples in the […]
Part II: Cooperation Across Borders for Future Change Continuing the momentum of the Memorandum of Understanding signed earlier, the Lower Saxonian delegation, led by State Secretary Prof. Joachim Schachtner alongside Prof. Anne H. Anderson, Vice President of the RSE, engaged in a series of high-level meetings in Scotland to introduce the new funding scheme and […]