1 p.m. – and the University campus was invaded by an estimated 18,000 persons who have come to lecture, marvel, experiment, research and inform. They have come to OPEN CAMPUS to find out about University life and something about what the University’s thinkers and researchers get up to – and of course to join in the open air party that started at 7 p.m. and went on until midnight.

“It’s a pleasure to see how many citizens of Bremen took up our invitation”, said University Rector Bernd Scholz-Reiter. “It is gratifying to know our University is so firmly anchored in the town and that our offers of studies, job training, and our research activities awaken such interest.” This year’s OPEN CAMPUS attracted especially large numbers of young people accompanied by their parents who have come to inquire about University studies. There was also great interest in possibilities for job training. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Vice Rectress for International Affairs and Diversity was also overjoyed at the day’s success: “Today we’re able to show everyone what it means to be an agile and successful international university.”

Visitors could choose from a very wide spectrum of activities and events, including 20 lectures delivered both by teachers as well as students, exhibitions of student projects, 10 different children’s labs and workshops, and more than 90 guided tours. And this was just the support program: the main feature comprises 40 exhibition tents where the various Faculties, institutes, service and advisory bureaus were at hand to show what they can do. All this was topped by a variety of on-stage events and shows. On what has turned out to be a perfect summer’s day, visitors were strolling around the campus park gathering information, eating chocolate ice-cream made with liquid nitrogen, playing with robots, or learning bits of the Maltese and Finnish languages. The children’s labs were drawing especially large numbers. Tickets for the workshops were sold out well before the actual day.