XFEL: European XFEL's green campus

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2025/05/16
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European XFEL's green campus

Together with the Loki Schmidt Foundation, European XFEL is developing a near-natural campus site

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The start has been made: representatives of the Loki Schmidt Foundation in dialogue with Frank Poppe, Jan Tolkiehn and Klaus Löptien about which plants and nature conservation measures match for a nature conservation-oriented campus. (photo: Sven Kamin/European XFEL)
European XFEL and the Loki Schmidt Foundation agree that there are exciting opportunities on the campus not only for species conservation, but also for improving the quality of life for the staff and the international scientific community, who live on the campus site for some time.

The Loki Schmidt Foundation was invited to visit our campus of European XFEL lately. The aim of the tour was to find out what potential the company site offers for further increasing biodiversity. “The timing was good,” says Christine Stecker, project manager of Kooperation NATUR - the Loki Schmidt Foundation's support programme for organisations and companies for the nature-oriented design of outdoor areas.

The outdoor facilities of the newly built science experience centre Lighthouse is not yet fully completed, so that a few tips for the planting could still be given. And as a special highlight: an approx. 800 square metre area between the Lighthouse and the Office Building XHO in the fallow stage. Here, exciting ideas for the design of a natural, identity-creating garden were quickly developed and some are already being realised. There are also plans for wildflower meadows, near-natural development with alternating moisture-loving wild plants, as well as unsealing and further greening of the main forecourt.