Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien Tübingen

Address

Stiftung Medien in der Bildung (SbR)
Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
Schleichstraße 6
72076 Tübingen

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Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Tübingen

Tübingen (German: [ˈtyːbɪŋən], Swabian: Dibenga) is a traditional university city in central Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 30 km (19 mi) south of the state capital, Stuttgart, and developed on both sides of the Neckar and Ammer rivers. As of 2014 about one in three of the 90,000 people living in Tübingen is a student. As of the 2018/2019 winter semester, 27,665 students attend the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. The city has the lowest median age in Germany, in part due to its status as a university city; as of December 31, 2015, the average age of a citizen of Tübingen is 39.1 years.

Immediately north of the city lies the Schönbuch, a densely wooded nature park. The Swabian Alb mountains rise about 13 km (8 mi) (beeline Tübingen City to Roßberg - 869 m) to the southeast of Tübingen.

The Ammer and Steinlach rivers are tributaries of the Neckar river, which flows in an easterly direction through the city, just south of the medieval old town. Large parts of the city are hilly, with the Schlossberg and the Österberg in the city centre and the Schnarrenberg and Herrlesberg, among others, rising immediately adjacent to the inner city.

The highest point is at about 500 m (1,640.42 ft) above sea level near Bebenhausen in the Schönbuch forest, while the lowest point is 305 m (1,000.66 ft) in the city's eastern Neckar valley. The geographical centre of the state of Baden-Württemberg is in a small forest called Elysium, near the Botanical Gardens of the city's university.

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Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien

Knowledge processes and how they are influenced by digital media - that's what the research at the IWM is about: Which conditions and competences are needed for the successful utilization of digital media for knowledge processes and how can these be provided? Which role do innovative cognitive interfaces play for knowledge processes? How does digitalization change social and motivational factors of knowledge exchange and usage? How does a group of people construct new knowledge? At the IWM, we answer tomorrow's questions today.

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University of Tübingen

The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen, is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The University of Tübingen is one of eleven German Excellence Universities. The University of Tübingen is especially known as a centre for the study of medicine, law, archeology, ancient cultures, philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as more recently as center of excellence for artificial intelligence. The university's noted alumni include presidents, EU Commissioners, judges of the Federal Constitutional Court, and Pope Benedict XVI. The university is associated with eleven Nobel laureates, especially in the fields of medicine and chemistry.

Wikipedia contributors. "University of Tübingen." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Jul. 2021. Web. 11 Aug. 2021.

"File:Uni Tübingen Neue Aula Sommer.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. 15 Jul 2021, 17:08 UTC. 11 Aug 2021, 07:06.

Map

Driving Directions

ARRIVING BY BUS FROM THE TÜBINGEN CENTRAL STATION

The bus station is located directly across from the Tübingen Central Station.

Departing from bus platform "F" or from bus platform "I":
Departing from bus platform "F":
8 [Hagelloch],
13 [Wanne Kunsthalle],
16 [Vor dem Kreuzberg],
18 [Hagelloch]

Departing from bus platform "I":
9 [Schloßberg],
11 [Westbahnhof],
12 [Weststadt].

The ride takes about five minutes. There are ticket machines in the entrance hall of the central train station, at bus platform "F" or on the buses; buy a single ticket "Kurzstrecke" [€ 1.80; valid for 30 minutes; transfer of tickets is not permitted].
Get off the bus at the stop "Hölderlinstraße".
Follow Hölderlinstraße for about 100 meters in the driving direction of the bus, turn right at the next pedestrian street up the hill onto Liebermeisterstraße. Continue on Liebermeisterstraße going uphill and turn left onto Schleichstraße. The IWM building, Schleichstraße 6, is located on the right hand side.
The walk from the Central Station to the IWM takes about 20 minutes.
Please visit http://www.svtue.de/ or http://www.naldo.de/ for further information regarding your individual schedule.

Driving Directions

ARRIVING BY CAR

If you arrive by car from Stuttgart or Munich via the A8 highway, leave the A8 at the exit 52a Stuttgart-Möhringen and take the B27 towards Reutlingen/Tübingen. Follow the road for approximately 25 kilometers and leave the B27 at the exit Tübingen-Lustnau/-Kliniken/-Universität. After continuing for 2 kilometers on Stuttgarter Straße (L1208), turn left at the main intersection in Tübingen-Lustnau onto Wilhelmstraße. Continue for 2 kilometers on Wilhelmstraße, which turns into Mohlstraße and Hölderlinstraße, until you have reached the parking garage "Altstadt-König" on the right hand side of Rümelinstraße.
Follow the signs in the parking garage and the stairs leading up to the Uni-Kliniken Tal/Augenklinik. Then turn right and follow the sign Augenklinik (ophthalmic clinic). About 200 meters past the ophthalmic clinic you'll arrive at the IWM building, Schleichstraße 6, on the left side of the road.

Attention: Construction work on the car park König!
The direct stair ascent from Parkhaus König towards the university clinics (Uni-Kliniken Tal), the eye clinic and thus to the IWM is closed from October 2017 until 2021 due to construction work. Access to Schleichstraße and the IWM is via the connecting staircase from Rümelinstraße.

Driving Directions

BARRIER-FREE ACCESS

The institute has a barrier-free entrance at the back of the building (see map). There is also an accessible parking space. At the moment you can only enter the building via this door with a code, so please inform your contact person in the institute ahead of your visit.

Driving Directions

ARRIVING BY PLANE

After arriving at Stuttgart airport take bus 828 to Tübingen. Since May 2016 there has been a new bus terminal, right between "Flughafenstraße" and Terminal 4 (site plan). The bus runs twice per hour . For more information on the "Airport-Sprinter" and the current schedule, click here.
In Tübingen, get off the bus at the stop "Hölderlinstraße", then follow the directions "Arriving by bus from Tübingen Central Station" to get to the IWM.