Homepage

From February 10 to March 15, the State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) will host the “Unissued Diplomas” exhibition at its central location at Universitätsboulevard. The exhibition can be visited during the library’s regular hours. Admission is free of charge.

On March 20, 2026, Professor Hajo Eicken will take over as academic director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Until now, the glaciologist headed the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

The former president of the YUFE University Alliance will assume her new role on February 23

This year’s Conference on Inclusion Research (IFO) will take place at the University of Bremen. From February 18 to 20, more than 300 researchers will gather on campus to discuss how to make education more inclusive and involve people with disabilities and other vulnerabilities.

Marie Fujitani has been a professor of human geography with a focus on marine and coastal sustainable development at the University of Bremen’s Institute of Geography in Faculty 8: Social Sciences since the middle of 2025.

How can water contamination be detected? Researchers from the Cognitive Neuroinformatics and Optimization and Optimal Control working groups and MARUM at the University of Bremen have been working on this question together with DSI Aerospace GmbH.

Nils Brüggemann was appointed to a joint professorship between the University of Bremen and the Leibniz Center for Marine Tropical Research (ZMT) for Earth system modelling and tropical coastal systems at the beginning of the year.

For the first time, a science team directly documented and extensively sampled a freshened water system beneath the ocean floor. This major discovery comes from the initial analyses of sediment cores. Researchers from MARUM at the University of the Bremen were part of the team.

The University of Bremen is inviting children to take part in the Kids’ University from March 17 to 26, 2026. Children between the ages of eight and twelve are welcome to dive into exciting fields of research together with the university’s scientists.

Journalist Juan David Escorcia began working at MARUM in February. He is a fellow in the FRONTIERS residency program for journalists and will be working at MARUM until May, researching topics for his work in science journalism.

An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the Earth's atmosphere for the first time in historical measurements from 1951 – 20 years earlier than previously known.

In January, the members of the Deputation for Economic Affairs and Ports and the Senator for Economic Affairs, Ports, and Transformation (SWHT) visited the hyBit project to find out about projects and research issues relating to hydrogen in Bremen.

Alena Witzlack-Makarevich has been a professor of general and comparative linguistics at the University of Bremen since the 2025/26 winter semester.

Within the framework of the Northwest Alliance, the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg are expanding their partnership with the University of Groningen. On January 21, a delegation from Groningen visited Bremen. They had visited the University of Oldenburg the day before.

The University of Bremen is expanding its contacts with Eastern Europe: As part of the German Academic Exchange Service’s (DAAD) Eastern Partnership Program, it will be cooperating with eight universities in Georgia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Armenia over the next three years.

Julia Veit has been Professor of Molecular Neurobiology at the University of Bremen since the 2025/2026 winter semester.

The Language Centre of the Universities in the Land of Bremen invites you to use the semester break to focus on language learning. A wide range of one to two-week intensive courses, officially recognized educational leave courses, and opportunities for independent learning will be available.

In 2025, the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) secured extensive datasets from the USA. Now, the DFG has approved around 860,000 euros in funding to systematically identify endangered data and safeguard it for the long term, using the PANGAEA data platform as a basis.

The Institute of Anthropology and Cultural Research invites you to the twelfth Bremen Days of Ethnographic Film. The festival will take place from January 20 to 22 on the university campus and at the City46 movie theater. 13 current and international productions will be presented.

Over the course of a semester, students and eight Bremen companies worked together on practical business challenges as part of the “future concepts bremen” modules. They will present their results at a public demo day on January 22.