University of Bremen
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The University of Bremen ( shortly Uni Bremen) is the founding in 1971 of a younger state universities of Germany and with approximately 19,200 students and about 2,100 scientists the largest university in the state of Bremen.
The University counts since June 2012 to the eleven German universities that have been awarded as part of the Excellence Initiative of the most valuable funding line " future concept ".
- 8.1 rectors
- 8.2 Chancellor
- 9.1 professors
- 9.2 Known graduates ( selection)
History
The tradition of today's University of Bremen can be attributed to the Bremer Latin School, which was renamed in 1584 to " high school Academicum ". In 1610 it was converted to the " Illustrious School ", a university with the four classical faculties of theology, law, medicine and philosophy. The university existed until 1810 and was dissolved by Napoleon I.. Under the Napoleonic rule was instead about a " Franco- Bremen University ." After the end of World War II " International University Bremen" was discussed in 1948 on the creation of a.
The trial operation of today's university was included in the winter semester 1971/72. The start-up phase in the 1960s proved to be controversial and led, among other things, termination Bremer coalition between the SPD and FDP. She was also accompanied by a land scandal. The foundation stone was laid on 11 November 1968 with the students and pupils jokingly under the name " Marx & Moritz University " - the latter named after the former senator education Moritz Thape. 1971/1973 the Pedagogical University of Bremen has been integrated. The plan was a university with the traditional subjects of law, medicine and science, but with a cross-curricular learning, the so-called project study. The conventional term faculty has been replaced by the term Department. The courses teaching and law were designed single-phase, that is, that graduates after the first state examination not in vocational went, but remained at the university and were prepared by appropriate field shares on the Second State Examination. The long-cycle programs sat on time not because the Bremer graduates got some difficulties when applying in other states. The departments of medicine and theology have not been set.
In June 1997, the cafeteria was completely destroyed by fire. Two children were playing on the roof left by craftsmen accelerants and it sparked a fire. The reconstruction of the cafeteria cost 36 million D- Mark, was opened in March 2000.
In the self- administration of the University, the third parity was introduced, the equality of status groups teachers, students and the so-called service providers. The action of some professors eventually finished the third parity.
Some elements of the so-called Bremer model are still preserved. So the lesson is focused on inquiry-based learning, interdisciplinary, practice-orientation and responsibility towards society. In particular, in the computer science continues to exist, this model, in which a significant part of the main study will be completed in a student project ( Project Study ).
The original Bremer model and trends in the appointment of some high school teachers brought the University of Bremen a reputation as a red elite. Many high school teachers brought a developed by Karl Marx theory of historical materialism, partly they were active in Marxist groups. These included often in the bodies of days on Wednesday morning ( nominally no events ) carried out external representations ( demonstrations ) in downtown Bremen. Among the most famous professors from the period belonged to the physicist Jens Scheer.
In the following years, the University of Bremen was able to establish its reputation as " excellent university ". As part of the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments in 2006, the University of Bremen placed in the " Future concepts for top-level research " in the top ten of the German universities. The University of Bremen is now regarded as a science center in north-west Germany.
Excellence Initiative
Overall, the University of Bremen has achieved three institutions of excellence that were funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments respectively be.
In the first round of the Excellence Initiative, the Graduate School of Global Change in the Marine Realm received a funding commitment.
During the second round of the Excellence Initiative, the applications of the Graduate School Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences ( BIGSSS ), a project in collaboration with the Jacobs University, and the Cluster of Excellence Marum were additionally - The Ocean in the Earth System successfully. This was announced by the German Research Foundation and the Science Council on 19 October 2007 in Bonn known.
In the third and last preliminary round BIGSSS Marum and defend their status. The marine science graduate school was not started again, because this program is now part of Marum. In addition, the University of Bremen continued its vision " Ambitious and agile" even in the most highly endowed third funding line by making it one of the circle of eleven German universities that have been awarded this status.
Teaching
The University of Bremen offers currently available in twelve subject areas about 80 courses at, thereby replace Bachelor (B.Sc. & BA) and Master ( M.Sc. & MA ) is increasingly the traditional degrees Diploma, Magister and state exam. Are not taught, for example, medicine, architecture and theology ( religious studies, however, this ).
The University is organized ( faculties) in twelve subject areas:
- Faculty 01: Physics / Electrical Engineering
- Faculty 02: Biology / Chemistry
- Faculty 03: mathematics / computer science
- Faculty 04: Manufacturing Engineering - Mechanical Engineering / Process Engineering
- Department 05: Earth Sciences
- Faculty 06: Law
- Faculty 07: Economics
- Faculty 08: Social Sciences
- Faculty 09: Cultural Studies
- Faculty 10: Languages and Literatures
- Faculty 11: Human and Health Sciences
- Faculty 12: Pedagogy and Educational Sciences
The curriculum is supplemented by virtual lectures, so-called e-learning modules. Add videos interdisciplinary learning content is taught and then checked.
With the Virtual Academy sustainability, the University of Bremen offers a curriculum for sustainable development.
Research
The University of Bremen takes on the acquisition of external funding in research, according to the Federal Statistical Office ( 2003) nationwide a fifth position.
With the profiling interdisciplinary science focus the University of Bremen has now nine DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centres as well as the DFG Research Center " Ocean Margins ".
Collaborative Research Centres
The university has eight collaborative research centers ( SFB):
- SFB 372: Spray Forming
- SFB 517: Neural bases of cognitive performance
- SFB 570: Distortion Engineering - Distortion Control in the Production
- SFB 597: Transformations of the State
- SFB/TR4: Process Chains for the Replication of Complex Optical Elements
- SFB/TR8: Spatial Cognition - Reasoning, Action, Interaction
- SFB 637: Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes
- SFB 747: Micro Cold Forming
Research institutions
In the area of the campus, many institutes and research facilities are located, either belonging to the University or in close cooperation are with her. The larger bodies include:
- AIB - Work Science Institute Bremen
- ALTA - Institute for Algebra, Geometry, Topology and its applications
- ANT - Department of Communications Engineering
- Artec - Research Center for Sustainability
- BCCMS - Bremen Center for Computational Material Science
- BCM - Bremen Center for Mechatronics
- BIAS - Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology, since 1977
- BIBA - Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics
- BIKQS - Bremen Institute of Canada and Québec Studies
- BIMAQ - Bremen Institute for Metrology, Automation and Quality Science
- BIME - Bremen Institute of Structural Mechanics and production
- BIPS - Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology
- BITZ - Bremer technology center; Architect ( 1985): Gert Schulze
- BreMarE - Bremen Marine Ecology - Center for Research and Education ( BreMarE )
- CEuS - Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies
- DFKI Bremen - Bremen the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ( Saarbrücken / Kaiserslautern), since 2006
- Research Centre for East European, since 1982
- Research and cooperation center shipping, since 1997
- IALB - Institute of Electrical Drives, Power Electronics and Devices
- IAT - Institute of Automation
- IAW - Institute for Work and economy
- IBB - Institute for Soil Science
- IDN - Institute for the Teaching of Natural Sciences
- IFAM - Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Applied Materials Research
- IFP - Institute of Solid State Physics
- IMSAS - Institute for Microsensors, - actuators and-systems
- InIIS - Institute for Intercultural and International Studies
- IfH - Institute for Brain Research
- Ifib - Institute for Information Management Bremen
- ISIS - Integrated Solutions in Sensorial Structure Engineering, Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, since 2008
- ISL - Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics, 1954
- ITB - Institute of Technology and Education, since 1986
- ITEM - Institute for Electromagnetic Theory and Microelectronics
- ITP - Institute for Theoretical Physics
- IUP - Institute of Environmental Physics ( with the organizationally connected IFE - Institute of Remote Sensing ), since 1993
- IWT - Institute of Materials Engineering, since 1950
- LogDynamics - Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics, 1995
- MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (together with the DFG Research Center Ocean Margins: RCOM - Research Center Ocean Margins, since 2001)
- MEVIS - Fraunhofer MEVIS (formerly MeVis Reseach GmbH), since 1995
- MPI Bremen - Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- MRC Bremen - Mobile Research Center since 2004
- PIW - Progress Institute for Economic Research
- TCI - Technology Center computer science and information technology, since 1995
- UFT - Centre for Environmental Research and Sustainable Technology
- ZARM - Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity
- ZeMKI - Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
- ZeS - Centre for Social Policy
- ZeTeM - Center for Industrial Mathematics
- ZHG - Center for Human Genetics
- ZKW - Center for Cognitive Sciences
- ZMT - Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
- ZPHG - Center philosophical foundations of Sciences, since 1984
Libraries
→ Main article State and University Library Bremen
The State and University Library Bremen ( SuUB ) is the research library of the country and the University of Bremen. It provides as State Library and University Library users and institutions in the state of Bremen and the lower Weser space scientific and regionally related literature.
The printed and electronic information is (as of 2008 ) of 3,252,772 volumes ( books, magazines and newspapers), 242 142 dissertations, 6,446 maps, 13,603 rarities, 184 incunabula, 68 071 notes 97 125 AV materials continually related 8,090 printed journals and 21,248 constantly related electronic journals. In the year 2008 38.129 active users visited the library and there were 1,433,837 library visits per year.
Besides the main building on campus there are nine other remote locations:
- The Departmental Libraries of Economics ( Uni - University ring 4 ), Physics and Electrical Engineering ( Uni - NW 1) for mathematics and computer science for (Uni - MZH ), and the Law (University - GW 1) and
- The branch libraries of the University of Bremen ( for Technology and Social Work: Neustadtswall 30 and for economic and nautical: Werderstraße 73), the Academy of Arts Bremen ( for art in memory XI of Music in Dechanatstraße ) and the Hochschule Bremerhaven ( Karlburg 7, House S)
Finances
In 2010, the University of Bremen had a total budget of approximately € 278.5 million. Of that total, about 91.4 million of external funding.
Austerity of the Bremen state government and the burden of the growing number of students have worsened the financial situation of the university. A consequence of the financial problems is the discussion of the introduction of tuition fees since the end of 2002. An administrative fee of 50 € per semester was introduced in 2004. At the moment of the Bremen policy of HGP (university master plan ) is discussed, in which the funding for the coming years are determined. It should come to a cut of about 25 %, with the consequence that studies sports and special education closed and some just are still to be continued as a body courses. The decision was taken on February 16, 2008 in the relevant committee of the Bremen state.
In the upcoming generation for several years many chairs were not filled because of scarce resources.
Location
The University of Bremen is a campus university, and almost all facilities are centrally located at the University and the neighboring " Bremen Technology Park ".
The campus forms with the technology park almost a separate district on the outskirts of Bremen and is conveniently located off the A27, with its own exit. In addition, the University well by bus (lines 21, 22, 28, 31, 630, 670 ) or tram can be reached. On campus, there are three stops of tram line 6
On the Teerhof Weser Peninsula, a University Guest House, another is in the Lise -Meitner-Straße close to the campus.
The Bremen semester ticket is valid in the traffic group Bremen / Lower Saxony, transport association Ems-Jade, traffic Landkreis Cloppenburg and outside their areas on the rail routes to (clockwise) Cuxhaven, Buxtehude, Hamburg, Hannover, Osnabrück, Rheine, Emden, northern dike and Wilhelmshaven.
University Management
Rectors
Chancellor
Other personalities
Professors
See: Category: Higher education teachers ( University of Bremen)
Known graduates ( selection)
- Jürg Acklin ( born 1945 ), Swiss psychoanalyst and author
- Stefan Dzikowski (* 1957), German author of non-fiction books about autism
- Oliver Grasmück (* 20th century ), German scholar of religion and free scientific publication service
- Hubertus Knabe (* 1959), German historian and director of the memorial Berlin- Hohenschonhausen
- Gesa Lindemann ( b. 1956 ), German sociologist
- Peter Masucci ( b. 1951 ), President of the Federal Social Court ( completion 1978)
- Werner Müller ( * 1946), German politicians and managers, ( PhD 1978)
- Ayşe Polat (born 1970 ), German film director and writer with a Turkish-Kurdish roots
- Reyhan Şahin, German rapper, actress and radio presenter
- Enrique Schmidt ( * 1949, † 1984), Nicaraguan politician
- Silvia Schön ( born 1959 ), German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
- Helga Trüpel (* 1958), German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
- Helmut Woll ( b. 1950 ), German economist
- Cold Mirror ( * 1984), German video artist
Others
At the University of Bremen was published in 1991 a decision of the Academic Senate who refuses military and defense research.
The University of Bremen was part of Wbone network for educational institutions, belongs to the Association of North German Universities.
In August 2011, was founded by members of the University of the Solargenossenschaft UniBremenSolar. Regardless of the university leadership, teachers and students involved, the mission statement of the University " Environmentally responsible behavior " and the " sustainability and environmental guidelines " to meet.