A shining sign of science and education

The Friedrich Schiller University Jena is setting a widely visible sign on the Inselplatz campus: Yesterday, the name of the university and the claim »Light. Life. Liberty.« were affixed to the campus tower yesterday. The illuminated letters will characterise the new campus in future and also make the university visible in the urban space.

The Inselplatz campus is one of the largest university construction projects in Thuringia. The first sections have already moved in and the campus is developing into a central location for research, teaching and meetings in Jena. With its open architecture, the campus connects the university and the city in a new way.

The installation picks up on the university’s strategic leitmotif: »Light. Life. Liberty.« stands for the major scientific and social issues that the University of Jena deals with—from light and photonics to life sciences, freedom, democracy and social cohesion. The claim connects the university’s research areas (so-called profile areas) and describes its claim to bring people and ideas together across disciplinary boundaries.

The bright letters now also make this claim visible in the cityscape: as a sign of a university that combines tradition with the future and locates science at the centre of society.

The new lettering will be illuminated in the evening hours and will also visually mark the campus as a central science location in the city of Jena.