Picture: Stephan Schambach, Peter Ruppel, Thomas Bachem, Kai Wegner, Verena Pausder, Paula Neuber, Reimar Müller-Thum (f.l.t.r., CODE / Gino Giove)
Berlin, September 24, 2024 – CODE University of Applied Sciences, which is supported by more than 50 of Germany’s most successful startup entrepreneurs, celebrated the opening of its new campus in Berlin-Neukölln on Monday. Guests included personalities from politics, business, education and science.
The new site is located in the KALLE Neukölln building complex, which offers space for culture, cuisine, start-ups and education as well as Berlin’s largest roof garden. Experience from more than seven years of study operations with an innovative learning concept has been incorporated into the selection and design of the location. CODE uses an area of around 2,000 sqm, which will be expanded to 3,000 sqm in subsequent years in line with the university’s growth.
Picture: Guests Verona Pooth and son Diego, who studies at CODEIn their welcoming addresses, Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner, President Prof. Dr. Peter Ruppel, university founder Thomas Bachem, startup pioneer Stephan Schambach and Chairwoman of the Startup Association Verena Pausder emphasized the importance of CODE for startups in the technology sector. They are already achieving an above-average number of spin-offs in relation to the number of students. After seven years of existence, CODE is one of the strongest startup universities in Germany.
Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner is delighted with CODE as “a very exciting addition, a missing building block in Berlin’s science and higher education landscape”
. “At this university, things are simply done, not just theorized, groups come together here, you learn in practice, you put it into practice as quickly as possible. We need people who are involved in these industries of the future.“
Referring to the considerable startup activities of the students at CODE, entrepreneur Verena Pausder said: “You couldn’t wish for a bigger entrepreneurship lighthouse for Germany.”
In addition to studying, networking is one of the top priorities according to CODE founder Thomas Bachem: “Over 500 students from over 80 nations come together here to learn from and with each other, exchange ideas and develop personally. This has resulted in over 70 startups founded by our students so far.”