Impact Pioneers in Residence
How and what can academia and society learn from one another? How do new ideas emerge when people from different professional backgrounds collaborate on research into societal challenges? What new insights can external experts and academics provide for one another?
Through the Impact Pioneers in Residence programme, the University of Bremen invites committed individuals from civil society, business, culture, the media and public administration to join a research working group for three to six months.
The Impact Pioneers contribute their experience, perspectives and networks to the research. Together with researchers from the University of Bremen, they develop new research questions, test innovative formats for knowledge transfer and work on their own specific projects of societal relevance.
Important information
The Impact Pioneers in Residence programme will be open for applications for the first time in 2026. The application period has started and will run until August, 31st 2026.
Which criteria must the submissions meet?
- Submitted projects must address processes of social transformation.
- Applications may only be submitted as a partnership between a researcher from the University of Bremen and an external guest.
- The programme is very open in terms of content and subject matter, provided that the project addresses a topic relating to a process of social transformation.