Building bridges between academia and industry as well as east and west

摘要

In his welcome address to this year's anniversary conference, Horst-Michael Ludwig, Director of the F.A. Finger Institute for Building Materials Science, stressed the huge importance of this scientific event. Since 1964, ibausil has been a conference at which "bridges are built, with east and west and academia and industry coming together". Ludwig sees good prospects for the future of this conference with its high-calibre attendees: "States have broken up, the world has changed, but ibausil will continue". While ibausil started in 1964 with 417 attendees, in the 1980s between 700 to over 900 interested attendees were welcomed to Wei- mar. Following German reunification, with just 252 attendees, the event experienced a breakdown in 1991. In the course of the following years, the number of attendees increased again, with recent events averaging around 650 representatives from science and industry.