Foto de stock - 27 October 2023, Saxony, Leipzig: Sebastian Lentz (l), Director of ifl, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (ifl). On the right stands Klara Geywitz (SPD), Federal Minister of Building and Construction, to the left Sebastian Gemkow (CDU), Minister of Science of Saxony. The project marks the beginning of the large-scale redesign of Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz. In total, the natural history museum, an education campus with adult education center and music school, the Forum Recht, the law faculty and a market hall are to be built on the current wasteland. The ifl analyzes socio-economic structures and developments in Germany and Europe from a geographical perspective. The total cost of the new building of 47 million euros is shared by the federal government and the Free State. Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa. - Leipzig/Saxony/Germany