“The Council’s approval is yet further affirmation of the excellent research done at the University of Bremen,” says Bremen’s Senator for Science Professor Eva Quante-Brandt. The new research building – the Zentrum für Tiefseeforschung (ZfT) [Center for Deep Sea Research] – is a project in the field of marine sciences at the University of Bremen. “The goal of the planned Center for Deep Sea Research is to bundle the expertise in this area and drive new breakthroughs in the exploration of life and processes in the deep sea," said the President of the University of Bremen, Professor Bernd Scholz-Reiter.

Tough selection procedure

The grant application had to go through a tough selection process. In the frame of the federal and state program for research buildings, the Council of Science and Humanities bases its recommendations on co-financing research buildings and large-scale facilities at universities on the basis of highly rigorous criteria. The application has now been passed on to the Joint Science Conference, which is expected to make a decision in the coming months.

“The support program for research buildings and large-scale facilities is of great importance for the federal states,” said Senator Quante-Brandt. “The substantial funding helps to increase national and international visibility.”

Cooperation with MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen 

The new building is to be erected on the University of Bremen campus in the immediate vicinity of the MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences. The Center for Deep Sea Research is established under the umbrella of the MARUM Research Faculty. The total cost of the project, with a floor space of approximately 4,000 square meters, is estimated to be around 38 million euro. This will be funded fifty-fifty by the German Federal Government and the federal state of Bremen.
The University’s second research building co-financed with the Federal Government     
The construction of the new research building will make it the second to be co-financed by the Federal Government on the campus of the University of Bremen. The LION research building used by the Bremen Institute for Applied Beam Technology was granted funding in 2008.

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If you would like to know more, feel free to contact: 

Christina Selzer
Press Officer for the Hanseatic City of Bremen 
Senator for Science, Health and Consumer Protection 
Phone: +49 421 361-2082 
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Prof. Dr. Bernd Scholz-Reiter
President of the University of Bremen
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