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The State and University Library Bremen (SuUB) stores around 9,500 occasional writings from Bremen, including funeral speeches and congratulatory messages for weddings, birthdays, and other events. A DFG project is now making the collection available online.

According to those affected, gambling ads have a double effect: They make it easier to start and also reinforce continued gambling. A study shows that advertising has a strong or very strong influence for about one in three people in outpatient gambling addiction treatment in Lower Saxony.

The universities of Oldenburg and Bremen have been working together for 25 years. With a revised cooperation agreement, they are intensifying their long-standing partnership. In the new agreement, both universities have laid down the framework conditions for long-term strategic cooperation.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an international research team led by Florian Meyer from the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen a Synergy Grant in recognition of their research on fire safety in space.

Experts will discuss sustainability in space at Space Hub Bremen. The University of Bremen invites you to attend the event, which begins at 5:00 p.m.

For ten years, the Worlds of Contradiction (WOC) collaborative research platform has been bringing together researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, law, and education. To mark this anniversary, it is hosting the “WOC Contradictions Festival” from November 10 to 14.

Preparing teacher education students for the use of AI in geography lessons – that is the focus of the new “TEACH-AI (Teacher Education for AI and Climate Harmony)” project. It brings together researchers from the University of Bremen and the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine).

On October 27, 2025, the University of Bremen and the Dr. Hans Riegel Foundation honored pupils from the region for their outstanding prescientific papers. The Dr. Hans Riegel Awards are endowed with a total of 5,000 euros.

Around 270 students completed their teaching degrees at the University of Bremen in the 2025 academic year. Some 80 of them attended a farewell ceremony at Bremen Parliament's ballroom at the end of October.

The University of Bremen and Bremen University of Applied Sciences have joined the “Astronomy Network Weser-Ems” (ANWE). The cooperation agreement was signed on Friday, October 24. The aim of the network is to promote and cultivate astronomy and related sciences in theory and practice.

John P. Burrows, Professor Emeritus of Ocean and Atmospheric Physics at the University of Bremen, has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal (EPSM).

Researchers at the University of Bremen have uncovered significant discrepancies between the data protection claims and the actual behavior of mobile health applications (mHealth apps). Many apps transmit personal data before users have even given their consent.

The Academic Senate of the University of Bremen is committed to “respectful and peaceful coexistence on our campus.” This is the title of a statement that was adopted on October 15, 2025.

The Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) is participating in a new project to measure carbon. The project is investigating the impact of certain processes such as deforestation, reforestation, and the preservation of intact forests on the carbon cycle in the Central African Congo Basin.