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Where would we be without engineers? No electricity, no telephones, no cars – the world simply wouldn’t be the same. From the printed book, through the purification of drinking water, up to life-saving medical technology – none of these things could have happened without the ingenuity of engineers.…

How to secure future energy supplies is the topic currently on everybody’s lips, lending new momentum to the debate surrounding the use of our planet’s scarce resources. Quite independent from the earthquake catastrophe and nuclear disaster in Japan, the second lecture in the series “Die Uni (in)…

The University of Bremen has positioned itself as a forerunner among German research institutions by committing to fund open access publications. By taking this step the University hopes to boost the motivation of its members to make their publications available online in so-called open access…

Psychological disorders in childhood and adolescence put an unbearable strain on family life and endanger healthy development. However, the field of therapy in this area has been sadly neglected. Children and young people often have to wait for nine months or more before they can receive treatment,…

On  the one hand, double annual cohorts, insufficient funding, lack of qualified employees; and on the other hand, successes in the Excellence Initiative and the acquisition of external funding, top-quality teaching and large numbers of graduates – important boosts to the regional economy and…

The University of Bremen’s new website went online in September 2010, presented in a modern design and illustrated with large-format photos. Since then, visitors to the site have been able to obtain detailed information under the headings “University”, “Studies”, “Research”, “International”,…

The first three Deutschlandstipendien [new form of scholarship] for students of the University of Bremen are now assured: an endowment sponsored by the Förderverein des Industrie-Clubs Bremen e.V., an association of industrial enterprises in Bremen. For the coming year, the Industrie-Club Bremen…

This year the University of Bremen celebrates its 40th anniversary. Over the past forty years it has never shied away from addressing the burning issues of our times – not in ivory-tower seclusion, but in discourse with the public and public institutions. It is in this tradition that the University…

Now anyone who wants to can accompany Professor Gerhard Bohrmann and his colleagues from the Center of Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) on their thrilling expedition to the mud volcanoes in the depths of the Black Sea. They can do so by viewing the new video documentation on YouTube. Mud…

Last week saw the official inauguration of a new center of marine research in the coastal town of Qingdao, China. The Ocean University of China (OUC), the University of Bremen – with the Leibniz Center of Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT) – and the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel – with the…