 So I'm very glad to welcome you in Göttingen. I'm very glad to welcome you in our historical library building. This is one of two main library buildings that we have in Göttingen, apart from a number of branch libraries. So this is a historical library building where we house all historic collections that are older than 1900. And we also use this as you can see and you should walk around, not now, but in the breaks. We have an ongoing exhibition about Thomas Meyer, who was a very famous cartograph and mathematician in the 18th century. So it's extensively used for very, very good exhibitions as well. I'm very glad, I have to say, that the sun has come through today because yesterday when we started a number of meetings it was quite grey. It actually was good because it was a full working day for us, but I think it's nicer if you come to a conference and you see some sunshine. So before I start, before I keep on chatting, I would like to introduce now to you Professor Ulrike Beisigl, who is the president of Göttingen University, to give a welcome to the community here, to the open-air project, and to all guests. Thank you very much, Elosa, and welcome to all participants of this open-air congress. The minister and I were just chatting and saying, we come from a real open-air event on a construction site, and so even though the sun is out, it's rather cold, so we are glad. Your open-air event is inside. And certainly my special welcome goes to you, Professor Wanker, the minister of science and culture here in Lower Saxony. As a mathematician, I think you might be even closer to the subject myself, but I'm sure you are open to the topic. I'm glad that you are here, director of excellence of the European community, Jerry van der Pül. We just said hello and I'm welcoming you in particular. So let me start, definitely with a thank to you, Norbert Lossow, who has not only organized the program of the whole open-air concept and the conference here now, but also introduced me into the world of open access, and that is, I'm very grateful for that. And the free access to scientific information is certainly that what we need today, and it's a clear aim of this concept of this open-air project here. And let me just make a couple of remarks to what our university did in terms of open access in the last years. And there I have to start, actually with my predecessor, because I only work here as president since two years. So that means in already 2005 there was a letter of the university president, at that time Professor von Figuera, he encouraged to public in open access. In 2007 the Foundation Council statement came out to continue and to step up the implementation of open access. And I think that was rather early, if I think about my university, where I had been before in Hamburg, I think we were not in the same way encouraged and we didn't process it that fast. In 2009 the deans of some faculties did a statement for open access. So there was a step-by-step process for this university, the university which is 275 years old. We have an anniversary this year, our 275th anniversary. So what do you need? You need certainly infrastructure and that is mainly provided by the State and University Library. The director you all know is Norbert Lossow. And so there it was important that the publication fund was given to publish in open access journals. There was Goh Scholar at the university's institutional repository and also the university press was open to publish in open access books. And national and international activities which were important for us, which we are looking at in a way, are the National Information Platform Open Access Net which is hosted in Göttingen used by universities, by the Max Planck Society and all other non-university scientific institutions in Germany including the Helmholtz Foundation, the Helmholtz Society, not Foundation. And initially it was funded by the DFG, the German Research Council and there was a collaboration effort with the universities in Berlin, Bielefeld, Konstanz and Göttingen. So the whole area of information infrastructure has been recognized by German Bord so to say that is the German Council of Science and Humanities. On one side there was a recommendation for the development of scientific infrastructure and information infrastructure and as a member of the German Council of Science and Humanities I had a chance to get my first lectures before Norbert Losers could teach me further on. The DFG has a position paper on digital transformation and so I think the bodies in the science bodies in Germany are certainly up to the topic. And since I learned so much when I came here and I realized how important it is to not only have the open access but to also have the suitable information infrastructure with the help of Norbert Loser and some other colleagues we developed a concept of e-research, enhanced research and we also developed a campus concept because what I need to tell you is that we have a very special situation here in Göttingen and that is that we have the research, Göttingen Research Campus that means that the university is in a very close collaboration with five Max Planck institutions, one Leibniz Institute one Hamilton Institute and the Academy of Sciences and this research campus has a council, a government body and with that we decided to go for really a big step in research and information infrastructure to have a common structure with all of those institutions, a campus structure and I hope very much that we will get money for that from the government. I know that the state government is supporting us heavily in that activities but we need more money and we need some money from the federal government and I think if we are successful with that we will be even more able to go on with what we need in information infrastructure and so I thank you again and also it's very important for us and I wish you all here a very interesting open discussion an open-air discussion, I hope that you see some air outside that you can see the sun and I have to announce one thing and that is tomorrow I was planned to be in the panel discussion and I have a very good excuse not to be there and that is Norbert Losser just last week was elected to be my vice president vice president for infrastructures and so I asked him whether he would be ready to start his office with representing me tomorrow in the discussion and that is certainly good for you because I am absolutely convinced that I couldn't have any better person to replace me tomorrow in that discussion because I am a scholar I mean I learned a lot from you but I think you are still better in discussing it so I hope you excuse me tomorrow and I wish you a very nice stay here in Göttingen