Potsdam

:This article is about the German city of Potsdam. There is also Potsdam, New York in the United States of America.

Education and research

Potsdam is a university town. The University of Potsdam was founded in 1991 as a university of the Land Brandenburg. Its predecessor was the Brandenburgische Landeshochschule Karl Liebknecht, a College of Education founded in 1948 which was one of the GDR's most important colleges.

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University of Potsdam - 1991 - College of Education - 1948

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In addition there is a College of Film and Television, founded in 1954 in Babelsberg, the foremost centre of the German film industry since its birth. There are also several research foundations, including a Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research, a Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, which employs 140 people in researching climate change.

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1954 - Babelsberg - Fraunhofer Institute - Max Planck Institute - Climate change

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