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The University of Bremen is the very first university in Germany to possess a laboratory for testing large gear wheels. The Bremen Institute for Metrology, Automation and Quality Science (BIMAQ) recently commissioned a special large coordinate measuring device and has subsequently opened the…

Between 1933 and 1945 around 1,000 scholars, artists and politicians who were persecuted and expatriated in Nazi Germany were given refuge as stateless and displaced persons in Turkey. These refugees had the word “Haymatloz” written into their Turkish passports. The word has even been adopted as a…

Following its success with “Dining with a Misanthrope”, University of Bremen’s drama group, Theater der Versammlung, is rehearsing its next production: The group invites the audience to come along on a “Country Outing” and to participate in a “Crash course in participatory observation” of the…

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has evaluated the interim reports on gender equality of 68 universities within the concept “Research-oriented Standards of Gender Equality”. The University of Bremen was praised for its “convincing overall strategy”, which according to the DFG is quite…

It seems they are unbeatable. With a clear victory in the finals of the RoboCup in Istanbul against the Nao Devils from Dortmund (11:1 goals), the Bremen team B-Human has won the robot soccer world championship for the third time in a row. The overall performance during the tournament, scoring 62…

The 24th Academic Senate of the University of Bremen was constituted on 13th July 2011. This is the highest self-administration body, responsible for all fundamental decisions to do with the University’s development. The 22 AS members comprise twelve professors, four students, four representatives…

Last week a team of students from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) secured a well-earned place on the victors’ podium in La Spezia, Italy. With their underwater vehicle named Avalon, they were competing against nine other teams from England,…

Happy mood and warm temperatures: Over 400 guests from the fields of education and research as well as representatives of politics, the university administration and city dignitaries followed the invitation of the President’s Office to attend this year’s summer party on the University campus. The…

The Career Center at the University of Bremen has installed a mobile PC terminal on the campus boulevard; a convenient way for students to search for jobs online. This new opportunity means that anyone passing by or on their way to the dining hall can go online and check out job opportunities, work…

A hot race under adverse weather conditions: The German university championships in rowing took place on the Bremen Werdersee lake under cloudy skies on 2nd and 3rd July 2011. Teams of student rowers from Bremen notched up several successes. They put up an impressive performance, taking home two…