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The University of Bremen Choir and Orchestra will hold their end-of-semester concert at the Glocke concert hall on Sunday, July 6, at 5 p.m. The program will feature Giuseppe Verdi's “Messa da Requiem.” Mariano Chiacchiarini will conduct the concert.

Ursula Kluwick has been Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies since the 2025 summer semester.

If global temperatures rise by 2.7 degrees Celsius – in line with current climate policy – only a quarter of the glacier masses will be left. This is the result of an international study involving the University of Bremen, which has been published in Science journal.

Following its great success, the play “Tú Phú” will be performed again at the University of Bremen Theater. The revival is part of the 2nd Vietnamese Cultural Evening, a collaboration between TiC – Theater inCognito – and the Vietnamese community in Bremen, represented by artist Ha Phuong Nguyen.

A recent study conducted by the University of Bremen shows that students in Bremen are regularly confronted with tobacco outlets and tobacco advertising on their way to school. The results of the study highlight the need for action to protect children and young people from tobacco marketing.

On June 3 and 4, ZeMKI (Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research) will host the “From Platform Governance to Generative AI” symposium.

Antje Boetius, marine researcher at the University of Bremen, head of a joint research group at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, and former director of AWI, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, one of the highest academic honors worldwide.

Sabrina Kombrink has been a professor of analysis and its applications since the 2025 summer semester.

In response to the resolution adopted by the Conference of Minister Presidents of the German States on March 12, 2025, the member institutions of the U Bremen Research Alliance are publishing their joint declaration: “AI Made in Bremen: Our Contribution to a National AI Strategy.”

Support for researchers in the early stages of their careers was the focus of a meeting of the nationwide University Association for Early-Career Researcher Qualification in Germany (UniWiND). The meeting was organized by the Bremen Early Career Researcher Development (BYRD) center.

Several events will be held to celebrate the anniversary of the Language Centre of the Universities in the Land of Bremen. Over the last three decades, it has provided students and staff from Bremen and Bremerhaven’s four state higher education institutions a wide range of language courses.

The University of Bremen performed particularly well in the latest ranking by the Center for Higher Education Development (CHE) in the area of support at the start of studies. It also scored well in acquiring third-party funding.

What does an equitable school look like? What is educational equity, and why does it matter to us all? The Unlock the Future exhibition provides answers to these questions and brings research findings on educational equity in Bremen and Bremerhaven to life.

Under the title Endangered Democracy, the “Profs gegen Rechts” network at the University of Bremen is organizing a series of lectures in cooperation with the Worlds of Contradiction collaborative research platform.

In Germany, children's educational success depends heavily on parental support. The Inclusive School-Parent Communication in a Migration Society project investigated how communication between schools and parents can be improved in this context.

Chemist Wolffram Schröer, a retired professor at the University of Bremen, has been awarded the Vernadsky Golden Medal, the highest award of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences.

The University of Bremen and Bremen City University of Applied Sciences have secured a total of 13.5 million euros to drive forward the transformation of university teaching in the coming years.

Oliver Plümper joined the Faculty of Geosciences as Professor of Mineralogy in the 2025 summer semester.

The university mourns the loss of Eberhard Haas, who passed away on March 27 in Bremen. Haas was an honorary citizen and sponsor of the University of Bremen since 2003.

Bacteria play key roles in degrading organic matter. Some bacteria selfishly take up entire molecules before digesting them internally, which is referred to as “selfish polysaccharide uptake.” The Bremen biologist Greta Reintjes was involved in the study in Croatia.