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The idea to invite outstanding external experts for short stays of teaching came from the University of Bremen’s Institute of Post-colonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS) some three years ago. Members of the Institute initiated a project with the goal of inviting high-profile personalities in…

The internationally renowned expert in East European history, Dr. Wolfgang Eichwede, professor emeritus for Politics and Contemporary History and founding director of the Research Center for Eastern European Studies at the University of Bremen is to receive the Aleksandre Men Prize 2011. The prize,…

On Wednesday 18th May 2011 the University of Bremen is once again organizing an open day for prospective students. What earth scientists do, which languages are spoken in Europe, the career prospects open to political scientists, and the different subjects offered in teacher training at the…

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,…