Landeshauptstadt Mainz Direkt zum Inhalt
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From Law and Economics, through the Social Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences to Medicine and Music, it covers nearly the entire spectrum of university subjects. Some 150 institutes and clinics all told make Mainz University one of the ten largest universities in Germany – one of these institutes is the Institute of Microbiology and Wine Research, part of the Faculty of Biology.
Together with the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Mainz Catholic University of Applied Sciences, the Mainz University of Applied Sciences is a third further public institution of higher education located in the State Capital Mainz. At present, some 4,400 students are enrolled in one of its three faculties: Architecture/Civil Engineering/Geoinformation Technology, Design and Economics.
In addition, the region is home to the Rural Area Service Centre Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück (DLR). The task of the DLR is the training of young farmers and winegrower, supplemented by an attractive range of consulting and further training facilities in questions of production techniques in agriculture and viticulture. The Oppenheim-based agency has its main focus on the wine growing, oenology and wine marketing sector.
Just a stone’s throw away, on the other side of the Rhine, is the Geisenheim Research Centre. It enjoys an outstanding reputation, internationally too, as Germany’s College of Viticulture. Many of the wine growers from Rheinhessen on course for success graduated from here.