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“Research-based learning” is not unknown at universities in Germany. But what does it mean exactly, and how does it benefit the students? This is the feature topic of the University of Bremen’s new Yearbook. And the German/English issue contains lots more besides: Some hundred pages of information…

Automated Debugging for Chip Design – this innovative approach developed by the newly-founded company solvertec GmbH gained the jury’s favor in the celebrated business-plan contest IKT Innovativ. At this year’s CeBIT, the five-person start-up team led by Joint Managing Directors Dr. Daniel Große and…

CeBIT, hall 9, stand B50: Members of the University of Bremen will once again be present with their own stand at this year’s CeBIT exhibition which takes place from 5th to 9th March. Six projects from the fields of computer science, information technology and logistics have joined together to…

Robots that vacuum clean the carpet and mow the lawn are already available as consumer products – and the demand for them is steadily growing.  However, it will be a while before the robot created in the new research laboratory of the University of Bremen’s Technology Center of Computer Science and…

Engineers move with the times! And true to form, as of now you can go to www.weltretter.uni-bremen.de and find a modern presentation of everything you need to know about studying Engineering in Faculty 4: Production Engineering – Mechanical Engineering & Process Engineering at the University of…

How does PhD student Malgorzata Goldhoorn benefit from the Excellence Initiative? What is it that biology student Barbara Safaric from Croatia finds so good about Bremen? What sort of work is the research assistant Nicolas Darkow carrying out at the German Aerospace Center? “If you will? Excellence!…

Lying on a small wall located between the Uni-Bad swimming pool and the SFG building you can find a heap of large painted concrete slabs. The colors on the 21 x 3 meter-large slabs are badly faded, and the motif is hardly recognizable. This springtime, though, the artwork is to be returned to its…

On 12th February 2013 a large number of guests drawn from the scientific and business community, politics and business converged on the campus drop tower to attend a reception held in honor of Gerd-Rüdiger Kück, who recently resigned as the University’s Director of Finance and Administration. After…

The University of Bremen continues to expand its support for post-docs. Each year for the next three years, six outstanding international young researchers will be able to take up research at the excellence university within the frame of its TRAC program (TRAC: Fellowships for TRansnational Academic…

The news propagated by the German newspaper BILD-Zeitung that the neurobiologist Prof. Roth from Bremen University identified a "central lobe" of the human brain as seat of the evil is wrong and due to a deep misunderstanding of statements in an interview. Such a lobe does not exist at all.…