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The University of Bremen continues to excel in the acquisition of external funding. Especially in the fields of Political Science and the Social Sciences, the University enjoys a particularly high reputation, attracting considerable sums of funding from external sources. This is shown by rankings…

Starting next winter semester 2011/2012 the University of Bremen will be offering several new degree courses: three Bachelors and three Masters. A fourth new Masters program, Master of Arts in Early Childhood Pedagogy (Frühkindliche Bildung), is already in the planning stage.  One of the new…

At its annual conference in Vienna, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) awarded the University of Bremen's professor Gerold Wefer the Alfred-Wegener-Medaille 2011. At the same time Prof. Wefer, who is also the Director of the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, was made an honorary…

More than 100 employers ? private enterprises and others ? will participate at the University of Bremen‘s “Praxisbörse” [employment fair] which opens on 3rd May. The Praxisbörse has grown to become the most important employment platform for university graduates in the North West of Germany. It…

How to express the robustness of electronic circuits and systems as a measured value? This is the goal pursued at the University of Bremen by the research group “Computer Architecture” under the leadership of Professor Rolf Drechsler. Results produced by the Bremen computer scientists with the aid…

Within the context of its Grete Henry Program for the promotion of gender equality and personnel diversity in academia, the University has a total of five professorships which are to be filled by women. The positions are available as of now in the fields of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies,…

Experience first-hand how exciting research can be. From 27th and 29th of April 2011 young people will be able to do just that during the University of Bremen’s Children’s University. Not surprisingly, the event is attracting a great deal of interest: more than 1,450 tickets have already been sold,…

Supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), the University of Bremen is in the process of setting up an innovative educational portal: the nation-wide “Virtual Academy” for teaching the foundations of sustainable development. Announcing project funding in an amount of € 400,000,…

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Mathematics can be much more than what most of us remember from our schooldays: that is why the University of Bremen has now opened a “maths studio“. In the “matelier“ teachers and trainee teachers will be able to receive valuable tips on how to make mathematics lessons more attractive for…