Development and Goals
In 2002, an interdisciplinary group of professors and administrators of the University of Heidelberg began working toward the establishment of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies. The HCA opened its first office in the spring of 2003. By October 2004, the HCA was officially inaugurated as a central academic institution of the University of Heidelberg.
In the Summer of 2006 the HCA moved into its present offices located in a historic building in the old city center of Heidelberg, the Curt und Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais.
Generous public and private funding was crucial in establishing the HCA. The institution aims to raise an endowment sufficient to ensure its permanent success.
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