Groundbreaking ceremony for iDiv building

This is how the new iDiv building will look like (photo, visualisation and architecture: Depenbrock Partnering GmbH & Co. KG Bielefeld).

Groundbreaking ceremony for the new iDiv building (photo: Stefan Bernhardt, iDiv).

The Minister President of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, took part in the groundbreaking ceremony (photo: Stefan Bernhardt, iDiv).

"The new building is another milestone to strengthen the complex research on how to safeguard the diversity of life on our planet", Kretschmer said (photo: Stefan Bernhardt, iDiv).

"As an international hotspot of biodiversity research, iDiv can become even more visible with an own building", said State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Dr. Eva-Maria Stange (photo: Stefan Bernhardt, iDiv).