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Sensation: University of Bremen is entitled 'University of Excellence'
Elation at the University of Bremen at the news of its success in the third round of the Excellence Initiative! The University’s place at the top of the league of Germany’s most excellent university institutions has been confirmed. You could sense the pent up tension on 15th June as members of the University watched the press conference live in Bonn as the grants committee announced their decision. Seconds later the cheers rang out! “This sensational success is undoubtedly the climax of our university’s 40-year history”, said University Rector Professor Wilfried Müller in an initial reaction. “We were ourselves always certain of our strengths – but despite all the previous successes and awards chalked up over the years, we could never be quite sure just how much we were appreciated on the ‘outside’. Now we have it in black and white from an internationally acclaimed body of experts: The University of Bremen has a secure place among the very top German universities!” Being elevated to the status of “University of Excellence” comes with a handsome financial reward. Over the next five years the University of Bremen will receive additional funding of 50 million Euros to implement its Institutional Strategy.
Institutional Strategy "Ambitious and Agile"[PDF] (1.8 MB)
The Excellence Path
Following its good showing in the first round of the Excellence Initiative launched by the German Government and the Länder, the University of Bremen is on the best way to scoring another success in the second round, too. The Institutional Strategy “Ambitious and Agile“ sailed through the preliminary selection.
This means that the University of Bremen is the only university in the North West of Germany to have a chance of being awarded the coveted title “University of Excellence”. Out of the ten winners in the first round of the Excellence Initiative in 2006, Bremen is now one of the final seven universities to have been given the chance in the second round to submit a proposal for the whole university, a so-called “Institutional Strategy”. This already confirms that the University of Bremen is among the very best in all Germany.
The institutions of excellence at the University that were already selected for special funding in the first round – the BIGSSS graduate school of social sciences and the MARUM excellence cluster– The Ocean in the Earth System – automatically go through to the final round and are applying for a prolongation of support. The application for the GLOMAR graduate school of marine sciences, which was also a winner in the first round, will be integrated in the cluster application. The two applications for prolongation must be submitted together with the University’s “Institutional Strategy” by 1st September 2011. In the following months these applications will be evaluated by a panel of international experts: the results will be made known in June 2012.
