Strengthening High-Profile Areas
Collaborative interdisciplinary research in the six high-profile areas (HPA) of the University moves research beyond the borders of its twelve faculties. HPA shape the perception of the University with their research successes. The Institutional Strategy makes a major contribution towards anchoring these high-profile areas in the top league of international research. The existing close cooperation between the non-university institutes and neighboring universities will be boosted by the measures M1 to M3.
M1 – New Governance
New forms of research governance will create a new and sustainable organizational basis for the six existing high-profile areas.
The MARUM is already functioning as a so-called Research Faculty, together with the University of Oldenburg the Social Sciences have set up ZenTra (Center for Transnational Studies), the Computer Sciences have established joint post-graduate studies with the DFKI and the DLR, and international advisory boards and coordinators steer the direction of research in other high-profile areas. There is an overall effort to expand cooperation with the extra-mural research institutes and to reach binding agreements on research strategy.
M2 – Bridge Professorships
Bridge Professorships create new links between the disciplines, both inside the University and especially between the University and the non-university research institutes. Together with forms of New Governance, the Bridge Professorships strengthen the high-profile areas of the University of Bremen.
Starting 2012/2013, six Bridge Professorships will be advertized.
M3 – Cooperative Junior Research Groups
This measure creates attractive double-mainstay career opportunities for young researchers. These groups work as independent units at the interface between the University and its non-university partners. This form of cooperation functions as an important cornerstone for strengthening the innovative capacity of our University.
