My impression is that everyone who visits – students, executives, alumni, colleagues, guests or journalists – feels at home on our campus. It is not really surprising that our campus has always been a great place to socialise. In Audimax or on a huge screen in the atrium, we’ve watched and celebrated football championships and we’ve played hours of table football in the basement. Rarely is there a free desk in the library either – maybe on a Sunday morning, but probably only before 9 am.
Over the past few years, Frankfurt School has grown considerably. The current campus in Frankfurt’s Ostend is bursting at its seams! For this reason, we are building a new campus on Frankfurt’s Adickesallee. On June 25, we will lay the cornerstone and we are pleased to invite all friends of Frankfurt School toast with us and celebrate this achievement! I am convinced that the new campus is going to be pretty cool! We truly want it to be a place for everyone. We are going to have much more space and will have more opportunities to mold campus life. Maybe we can finally start a choir – one of President Steffens’ ideas.
Now, we ask our friends to support the new campus; we’ve received numerous donations, big and small, for which we are very grateful. I am delighted that lecturers, students, alumni, members of our board of trustees and of the advisory board, as well as philanthropists have pledged their support for our new campus. The Head of the FS Student Council, Eliomaria Narducci (Master in Management ’15), has started a very smart initiative in this respect, the Adopt a Bench project. The goal is for the Class of 2015 to raise 5,000 Euros for the new campus. To honour the gift, Frankfurt School will endow a bench which will ensure that the Class of 2015 is part of the campus and has its very own space there. It would be terrific if everyone, not just the Class of 2015, took part and helped to reach this goal.