Since 2013, we have been working as a volunteer project group to create affordable, self-managed and ecologically sound housing for over 250 people on the conversion site "US Hospital" in Heidelberg. In doing so, we are building directly on the basic ideas of the "Collegium Academicum" (CA) dormitory that existed in Heidelberg's old town until the 1970s: Democratic organisation, socially critical thinking, self-managed living and diverse educational and cultural events.

Our project includes a new four-storey wooden building that provides affordable and self-determined housing for 176 students, trainees and doctoral students. The first 176 residents of the new wooden building moved in in February 2023.

In addition, our adjacent, refurbished existing building opened in 2024, and between 2024 and 2025 it hosted two cohorts of our "falt*r" orientation year programme. We have also created eight flats in this building, six of which are part of rent-controlled social housing.

The two large buildings will be complemented by a former gatehouse, which is to be renovated so that it can be used as a meeting place for residents and the neighbourhood.