Keep your fingers crossed: This afternoon it will come to the decision on the Excellence Initiative and we will know if the University of Bremen was able to convince with its Institutional Strategy "Ambitious and agile" and will win the title 'University of Excellence'. 

This decision is important also for the future of the University as a hole as well as for the Graduate School "Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences" (BIGSSS) and the Excellence Cluster "The Oceans in the Earth System - MARUM".

The final decision will be annouced here this afternoon.

Follow the DFG press conference via livestream here.