The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung and the international accelerator center FAIR warmly congratulate their closely affiliated universities in Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Mainz, Jena, Bochum, and Cologne on their selection as Universities of Excellence. The locations were recently announced as part of the federal and state governments’ Strategy for Excellence. This funding, which will be provided through the most significant federal-state program from 2027 onwards, sends a strong signal…

The GSI/FAIR campus has gained a new landmark: an eight-meter-tall copper column with an organically shaped, polished-metal body in its upper third—this is the artwork “Entschleunigtes Teilchen — the FCC meteor” by Atelier Thomas Stricker. The piece emerged as the winner of the art-in-architecture competition for the FAIR Control Center (FCC) and was recently installed in front of the building.

In late September 2026, the first quadrupole magnet for the Super-FRS (SFRS) was transported to the FAIR site and installed in the Super-FRS target building. The quadrupole doublet was transported from the test stand in the testing hall on the GSI campus to the target building as a heavy-haul shipment.