A childcare centre directly on campus: The Forscherzwerge company childcare centre was opened in January 2009 to give employees of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Joint Administration (MPIe) in Stuttgart-Büsnau the opportunity to combine family and career.
Various very bright and modern functional rooms, in which the children can freely develop and try things out, are housed in premises specially converted and extended for the daycare centre. The daycare centre is located in the immediate vicinity of the Büsnauer Wiesental and the beautiful Pfaffenwald forest, which often invites the Forscherzwerge to go on exciting exploratory tours into nature. The children can fulfil their natural urge to explore, carry out experiments and perceive themselves as part of their environment.
Native speakers play a special role in many element-i childcare centres, including the Forscherzwerge. Through them, the children come into contact with a language other than their mother tongue at an early age, which lays an important foundation for later language acquisition. At the Forscherzwerge, the foreign language focus is currently lies on English.
