Editing University of Bonn (section)

==== Infrastructure ====
[[File:Innenhof BA Bonn.jpg|thumb|Rabinstraße 8, the ex-Zürich Insurance headquarters housing the humanities departments while the Electoral Palace is being renovated]]
The university and North Rhine-Westphalia state construction and real estate agency is investing €2 billion in refurbishing existing buildings and new construction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seven key properties on the three campuses of Poppelsdorf, Endenich and City. |url=https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/press-and-communications/publications/forsch/forsch-2021-02/buildings |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=Universität Bonn |language=en}}</ref> One project currently under construction is the €55 million project constructing a 'Teaching and Research Forum I & II' that is expected to be completed by 2024. This will become a central research hub with lecture halls, a library and [[seminar]] rooms for the Economics department, the Clusters of Excellence, the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, HPCA, and DiCe. By mid-2023 the €45 million research building for the new Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change of the [[Museum Koenig|Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig]] will be completed; this will allow for more collaborative research between the museum and the Department of Biology, and will house a data center, laboratories, a biobank, a cryogenic storage facility, spaces for collections, and a library. The University of Bonn is also currently replacing its chemistry building with a new €37.2 million five-story building for the chemical institutes that will house 17,750 square feet of laboratory space and 6,500 square feet of office space by 2023. From 2022, the [[Akademisches Kunstmuseum]] has been under renovation by the North Rhine-Westphalia state construction agency and expected to be completed by 2025. It will also accommodate the library, offices and lecture hall for the [[classical archaeology]] department, including providing access for teaching purposes to items in the collection.[[File:2013-10-05-bonn-universitaet-innenansicht-hoersaal-i-06.jpg|left|thumb|A lecture theatre at the Electoral Palace]]Over €1 billion is being spent on the main building, the Electoral Palace, which will be out of service for several years and completed in 2030; this includes work on fire protection, re-wiring, and plumbing, as well as modernization of lecture halls, common areas, and offices. The Humanities departments are being accommodated in the former [[Zurich Insurance Group|Zurich Insurance]] building on Rabinstraße throughout the construction works, while the administrative staff are being housed in the former [[Deutscher Herold]] headquarters. Both temporary locations have been equipped with library areas, seminar rooms and meeting rooms. In addition, by 2031 €128 million will be spent on a 'Forum of Knowledge' which will extend the main building on a site spanning several tens of thousands of square feet, and will be open to members of the university and city residents. The university is also planning spaces for study spaces, shops, catering, and bike parking in the extension.