Lower Saxony is equipped with a special position in Europe: the most important European thoroughfares are crossing here. By train, car and airplane every major German city and nearly all European capitals are reachable conveniently in a few hours.

Lower Saxony has special potential and unique features in many thematic areas:

• Infection research
• Genome- and proteome based diagnostics
• Biomedical engineering
• Biomaterials, biotechnology
• Regenerative medicine
• Neurobiology
• Nutrition and agricultural biology