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Katrin Deinhardt has been a professor of cell biology in the Faculty of Biology/Chemistry at the University of Bremen since the winter semester 2024/2025.

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21: The Expert Council on Anti-Racism has published a definition of racism that provides authorities and institutions with a clear basis for effective anti-racism measures. Prof. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu helped to develop the paper.

100 exchange students have come to the University of Bremen for the 2025 summer semester. At a welcome breakfast hosted by the International Office, they were able to network and learn more about the university.

At a senate reception in the Bremen City Hall, the University of Bremen was named a leading university for gender equality. The accolade also marks a major step towards the financial support of its gender policy activities.

Bremen's robot soccer team B-Human has once again proven its international excellence. At the RoboCup German Open 2025, held from March 12 to 16 in Nuremberg, Germany, the team successfully defended its title in the Standard Platform League.

From March 16 to 21, 2025, the Faculty of Geosciences at the University of Bremen will host the 10th International Conference on Arctic Margins (ICAM-X), a major Arctic conference with about 130 researchers. On March 18 at 7 p.m., a public lecture on Arctic governance will take place.

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of the food web, this will likely have cascading ecological and economic consequences.

At the invitation of the Senator for Science, a multi-university symposium on antisemitism was held at Forum at Domshof. The goal was to raise awareness for the issue from multiple perspectives and develop strategies to combat antisemitism at the participating HEIs.

An important step in the direction of Open Science: Since the beginning of the year, the Quarterly Journal of Labour and Economic Research has been freely accessible for authors and readers.

At joint online events, the universities in Bremen State will introduce themselves and provide information about their degree programs and application procedures. The events will take place digitally via zoom on Tuesday, March 11, and Thursday, May 8, from 4 to 6 p.m. Registration is required.

The 2025 Gründungsradar of Stifterverband confirms the University of Bremen's excellent performance in promoting start-ups: It is once again ranked 15th among the 48 largest German universities.

The Cognitive Systems Lab invites you to participate in the tenth Bremen Big Data Challenge. University members and employees of partner companies can solve data analysis tasks until March 31. Winners can look forward to cash prizes, totaling 1,500 euros, and non-cash prizes.

International students and researchers at the University of Bremen can obtain free household goods at a FreeShop at the beginning of the semester. Donations are still welcome for this purpose. They can be dropped off at campus until March 20, 2025.

With WeSIS, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) “Global Dynamics of Social Policy” at the University of Bremen has published an interactive web-based information system. It offers comprehensive data to describe and explain social policy worldwide.