Universität Bremen

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A profile of the University of Bremen

With around 18,000 students, the University of Bremen is a medium-sized German university. Bremen offers a wide range of subjects for committed and talented students: over 100 Master's and Bachelor's degree programs as well as the state examination in law. And with research-based learning, the university has reinterpreted project studies, a special feature from its founding days. As part of the European university network YUFE - Young Universities for the Future of Europe - it is developing a new model of European higher education together with nine other universities.

2,300 academics (43% female), including 270 professors (32% women), teach and conduct research in a wide range of subjects at the University of Bremen. In the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, humanities and teacher training, the university has long been committed to interdisciplinary collaboration and excellent research. From 2012 to 2019, Bremen was one of eleven universities to receive funding as a University of Excellence under the "Ambitious and Agile" institutional strategy.

The future issues of today's societies are addressed in its five key scientific areas: Marine, Polar and Climate Research; Social Change, Social Policy and the State; Materials Sciences and their Technologies; Minds, Media, Machines and Health Sciences. The marine sciences are particularly visible with their Cluster of Excellence, which has been continuously funded since 2006.

The university is committed to diversity and has always encouraged unusual ideas and the independence of its early career researchers. Scientists at all career levels find a stimulating environment here. The university was successful in all rounds of the federal government's professorship program as well as the tenure-track program for the promotion of early career researchers and received the maximum possible funding for professorships in each case.

The university has long cooperated closely and trustingly with the non-university research institutes at the location - 11 of which are jointly funded by the federal and state governments - and has been part of the U Bremen Research Alliance since 2016. More than 50 cooperation professorships testify to the close proximity.

The university takes its social responsibility seriously and maintains its activities together with many groups and institutions in Bremen. It likes to be the first to try out new approaches: founded as a reform university, it embraces change. The vision: Bremen as a leading European research university and an inspiring place of education. To achieve this, the university relies on its strengths, on the potential of all university members and on trusting cooperation with partners.

The university's vision, mission and goals for the coming decade were developed with the participation of employees and students. Building on this, the Academic Senate of the University of Bremen adopted the 2018-2028 strategy in December 2017.