 In addition are a pan-departmental research centre and a professional school for advanced study courses, like business co-operation.Leuphana was founded in May 1946 as one of eight colleges of education ("pädagogische Hochschule)" in Lower Saxony, and was renamed in May 1989 from "Pädagogische Hochschule Lower Saxony, Abteilung Lüneburg" to Lüneburg University.In 2009, the campus in Suderburg was transferred to the Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel (Ostfalia University of Applied Studies).