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In August, several thousand AI experts will gather for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). The big questions surrounding AI will be brought to the city. The university is involved in many of these events.

Climate researcher Veronika Eyring will become the first founding director of the new state-funded “connAIx” Research School for Applied AI in Heilbronn. Her new professorship, “AI for Climate and Physical Systems,” will also be based at the University of Tübingen.

Professor Anja Becker from the University of Bremen, and Dr. Britta Bußmann from the University of Oldenburg are cexamining narratives of female resistance in the Middle Ages. Their goal is to demonstrate that ancient literature can provide insights into contemporary discourse.

Ten European universities, including the University of Bremen, are part of the Young Universities for the Future of Europe (YUFE) alliance. The consortium has secured additional funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, ensuring continued support for the next two years.

Nursing scientist Karin Wolf-Ostermann has been nominated for the Falling Walls Foundation’s “Science Breakthroughs of the Year” for her research on AI in nursing. The start-up "SEAL Robotics" has also been nominated as a “TOP 100 Science Startup.”

The Bremen-based university spin-off TOPAS Industriemathematik, in collaboration with Alpha Robotics Germany, has been awarded the Steinbeis Foundation’s 2026 Transfer Prize – Löhn Award. The winning project develops autonomous firefighting robots for emergency operations.

The introduction of collective bargaining in long-term care has increased wages for care workers. This is shown by a study by the Institute for Work and Technology at the Westphalian University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt, and Recklinghausen, and SOCIUM at the University of Bremen.

On Wednesday, July 8, 2026, the fifth Book Talk hosted by the Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) research platform at the University of Bremen will focus on the freedom of science. Members of the WOC GradNet graduate network will discuss these issues at the House of Science.

The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) and the Scheeßel Local History Museum have received a generous grant from the VGH Foundation for the project “From the Drawer into the Light: The Artist Ernst Müller-Scheeßel and His Estate at SuUB Bremen.”

The Language Centre of the Universities in the Land of Bremen (SZHB) presents its 2026 summer program. The courses are aimed at students, prospective students, working professionals, and international guests.

High-resolution sediment analyses from the Arabian Sea reveal, for the first time, that summer and winter monsoons respond differently to global climate change. Researchers from the University of Bremen contributed to the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The University of Bremen welcomed Mohamadou Hadi Barkindo, the Lamido of Tibati, Cameroon, for a visit to its campus. The traditional regional leader visited Bremen at the invitation of Bremen’s Senate Chancellery, in collaboration with the Übersee-Museum Bremen.

The International Offices at the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg work together to leverage synergies and make a difference through combined efforts. Leaders Marejke Baethge-Assenkamp and Jenka Schmidt discuss strategic partnerships globally, in Europe, and within the Northwest Alliance.

In April, Peer Woizeschke assumed the position of cooperation professor for laser material processing. He also heads the Material Processing and Processing Systems division as the managing director of BIAS – Bremen Institute for Applied Beam Technology.

The University of Bremen is hosting an evening event that will focus on underground schools for girls in Afghanistan. The guest speaker is Pashtana Durrani, founder of the Afghan non-governmental organization LEARN Afghan.

For a decade, the observatory has been providing data to understand how the atmosphere over the Western Pacific influences climate worldwide. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), the University of Bremen, Palau Community College, and the Coral Reef Research Foundation are involved.

The University of Bremen has once again been certified as a family-friendly university by berufundfamilie Service GmbH. The certificate was awarded on June 18.

On June 27, 2026, downtown Bremen will become a gathering place for anyone who wants to experience science up close. From 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., the first-ever Science Day will take place. The University of Bremen will be participating as well.

At 7 p.m. on June 28, the orchestra and choir will perform Pietro Mascagni’s one-act opera “Cavalleria rusticana” at the Metropol Theater in Bremen.

Emil Ruff joined the university in the 2026 summer semester as a professor of molecular microbiology.