“I’m delighted that we can continue to expand our joint work with a new partner,” said Professor Bernd Mayer from the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM) at the signing ceremony. Together with the President of the University of Bremen, Professor Bernd Scholz-Reiter, he co-chairs the U Bremen Research Alliance. Professor Ekkard Brinksmeier from the Leibniz-IWT adds: “By joining the U Bremen Research Alliance, we want to contribute to further strengthening Bremen as a science location. We are looking forward to the future cooperation.”
The Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering - IWT Bremen
The Leibniz IWT is located on the campus of the University of Bremen. It has been working closely with the Faculty of Production Engineering for many years. The institute develops future technologies in the field of metal processing from basic research to industrial maturity. Its extensive know-how and exclusive technical equipment make a significant contribution to solving the problem issues encountered in metalworking. It was admitted to the Leibniz Association at the beginning of January this year. At the invitation of the Senator for Science, Professor Eva Quante-Brandt, a festive ceremony was held in the Bremen town hall on January 30 to mark the occasion.
German Science Council: Bremen Alliance is a good example of cooperation
The cooperation between the University of Bremen and the non-university research institutions around the campus and in the state of Bremen has a long tradition. In addition to the University, the alliance founded in 2016 encompasses member institutions of all the major German science organizations. The partners want to intensify the already existing scientific cooperation between their institutions and work even more closely together in the areas of service and administration. “A strong university promotes strong non-university research institutions, and strong non-university research institutions stimulate university development,” says the President of the University of Bremen. The German Science Council obviously agrees: In its recently published “Recommendations on regional cooperation of scientific institutions”, it portrays the Bremen Alliance as a shining example of good cooperation.
The twelve members of the U Bremen Research Alliance:
1. Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
2. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Bremen (DFKI)
3. German Maritime Museum - Leibniz Institute for German Maritime History (DSM)
4. DLR Institute of Space Systems
5. Fraunhofer Institute for Image-Assisted Medicine (MEVIS)
6. Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research (IFAM)
7. Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems (IWES)
8. Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS)
9. Leibniz Institute for Materials Engineering (Leibniz-IWT)
10. Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT)
11. Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI)
12. University of Bremen
