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The Virtual Academy of Sustainability is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a conference in early October in the Banking Hall at the Forum at Domshof, University of Bremen (downtown Bremen).

On November 10, 2026, ViTeach 26 will explore, under the theme “Facts. Fake. Future?!,” how video-based higher education can be designed to be credible, pedagogically sound, and technically sustainable in the age of artificial intelligence.

During this online workshop, you will first learn about the most important (legal) principles governing the use and creation of open educational resources

In this 30-minute MMKH workshop, you'll gain a clear overview of how modern AI systems are currently evolving: from large language models (LLMs) to AI agents and autonomous systems.

With "NeL AI Week 2026," the Network of State Institutions for Digital Higher Education (NeL) aims to take a practical look at the challenges and potential of using AI in higher education.

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.

On June 30, 2026, the University Executive Board adopted the guidelines for the use of AI-based systems at the University of Bremen. With these guidelines, the Uni provides a binding framework for all members of the university community—in teaching, learning, research, and administration.

In its exploratory study titled “AI in Teaching and Learning—Use Cases and Conditions for Success,” the HIS Institute for Higher Education Development e. V., commissioned by the Higher Education Forum on Digitalization, presents a systematic analysis of use cases for generative AI tools at German-sp

The new website on academic writing at the University of Bremen is now online. Anyone who writes academic papers as part of their studies will find answers to the following questions on the new “Academic Writing” website:

The e-teaching.org online workshop on Tuesday, June 30, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., will focus on the topic "SCALE-UP—Teaching and Learning, with the Help of the Classroom."

The Fall Conference is aimed at Stud.IP operators and users, and this is reflected in the program: In addition to the presentation of new features and enhancements, the focus is primarily on practical applications in teaching and administration.

Do you want to create OER-compliant videos featuring animated characters, but don’t have any professional experience in video animation? Then you’ve come to the right place.

The theme "Under Pressure" reflects the current reality facing many universities: financial pressures, technological transformation, social division, and demographic change are just a few of the challenges they face.

The Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching will be awarded again this year. The nomination period has recently begun. All members of the university are invited to nominate faculty members for the prize, which has been awarded since 1991.

The University of Bremen’s seventh Teaching Workshop will take place on June 3, 2026. Once again, a diverse program of workshops focusing on teaching and learning at the University of Bremen will be offered. Please register by May 27.

During the workshop, you will first learn about the key (legal) principles governing the use and creation of open educational resources.

In 2026, the Stifterverband will present the “Ars legendi Prize for Excellence in University Teaching” for the 19th time. This year, the prize, which comes with a cash award of 30,000 euros, is dedicated to the theme “Teaching and Learning to Write in the Age of AI.”

The workshop shows practical and creative applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in university teaching — with a special focus on open educational materials (OER).

On Thursday, April 2, 2026, we will be performing an update on JupyterHub, which means that JupyterHub will be unavailable on that day.

Artificial intelligence is constantly evolving—and so are the demands placed on university lecturers. In this two-hour workshop, we will present the University of Bremen’s current legal and pedagogical recommendations for the use of AI in teaching

The Particify audience response system has recently been updated to a new version. Since then, several new features and improvements have been made available.

For the fourth time, the state of Bremen is presenting the Bremen Higher Education Teaching Award. It is intended to showcase the importance of university teaching and create an incentive to become even more involved in this area.

The training series AI Tools in Scientific Work and Writing Processes at the State and University Library of Bremen (SuUB) is aimed at researchers, teachers, and students who want to deepen their skills in using AI-supported applications.

Nachdem das HFD im Frühjahr 2025 die Studie „KI in Studium und Lehre – Use-Cases und Gelingensbedingungen“ (Wannemacher et al., 2025) veröffentlicht hat, sind sie nun erneut auf der Suche nach KI-Use-Cases aus der Hochschulcommunity.

A new type of assignment has recently been made available to students on the online learning platform of eGeneral Studies and the Virtual Academy of Sustainability (OnCourse).

At the end of 2025, the Lower Saxony OER portal twillo will be hosting two more workshops for teachers in December.

The 2025 Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching was awarded to three teaching staff members. Linguist Dr. Barbara Aehnlich impressed the jury in the “Good Teaching” category. The “Student Prize” was awarded to psychologist Dr. Julia Stern and cultural scientist Dr. Ulrike Flader.

The "e-Examination Symposium (ePS)", the specialist conference on digital examinations in a university context, will take place next year from May 19 to 20, 2026, at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. The motto is "Challenges of digital examinations: AI, cheating, infrastructure." CFP until F

Let’s get digital: For 25 years, the Center for Multimedia in Higher Education (ZMML) has been promoting the use of digital teaching methods. Welcome to a slightly different tour of the campus

On December 03, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., the “unifreunde” Association and the University of Bremen will once again present the Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Bremen. The award ceremony will take place on the University of Bremen campus in room B3009 of GW2 building

Communication researcher Cornelius Puschmann speaks about the risks automated bots pose for public discourse

Series of events organized by the Organizational Psychology team on learning with generative AI

We (SuUB) kindly invite you to the next AI Coffee Lectures—an online lecture series on the topic of artificial intelligence.

Die professionelle Entwicklung von Studiengängen und Curricula ist ein wesentliches Instrument zur Neugestaltung und Weiterentwicklung von Studieninhalten, Lehrveranstaltungen oder didaktischen Konzepten

The legal information center bwDigiRecht cordially invites you to the online information event on October 30, 2025, 10-12 am.

AcademicCloud now also offers the option of generating images with AI support.

AI tools can be very helpful in the didactic design of your teaching. They relieve you of time-consuming translation work, help you with formulations and create summaries in no time at all:

The cloud application JupyterHub has now been connected to Stud.IP. This considerably simplifies access for lecturers and students.

We are pleased to announce that we can now offer you access to generative AI models, such as ChatGPT, which complies with data protection regulations.

Die Herbsttagung richtet sich an Betreiber:innen und Anwender:innen von Stud.IP, und das spieglt sich auch im Programm wieder: Neben der Vorstellung von Stud.IP 6 und neuen Funktionen steht vor allem der praktische Einsatz in Lehre und Verwaltung im Vordergrund.

Wie können wir Lehrende vor allem technisch unterstützen, hybride Lehre durchzuführen? Antworten auf diese Frage bietet die vierte Veranstaltung der CHEtalk-Staffel zu hybrider Lehre. 

Im Verbundprojekt „Berliner Netzwerk Hybride Lehre“ stehen didaktische und technische Fragestellungen im Mittelpunkt: Innovative Konzepte werden erforscht und entwickelt, um hybride Lehr-Lern-Settings an Hochschulen bestmöglich zu unterstützen. Diese Formate bieten ein großes Potenzial zur Förderung…

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are published for use under an open licence. In its OER policy, the University of Bremen recommends that lecturers create and use OER in their teaching.

Bei der didaktischen Gestaltung Ihrer Lehre können Ihnen KI-Tools sehr behilflich sein. Sie nehmen Ihnen aufwändige Übersetzungstätigkeiten ab, helfen Ihnen bei Formulierungen und erstellen in kürzester Zeit Zusammenfassungen.

Hybrid, accessible, and student-friendly: The Opencast recording tool offers many advantages for students and teachers

In dem zweiten Webinar der Veranstaltungsreihe stehen Anwendungsszenarien der hybriden synchronen Lehre im Fokus. Die eingeladenen Referent*innen berichten aus der Praxis, um Interessierten einen Einblick in ihre Erfahrungen zu geben und Fragen zu beantworten.

Der Einsatz von KI-basierten Systemen hat auch auf die Hochschullehre große Auswirkungen. So können KI-Systeme beispielsweise von Lehrenden zu Lehrzwecken eingesetzt werden, zur Schaffung von Lehrmaterialien verwendet oder auch bei der Bewertung von Studien- und Prüfungsleistungen genutzt werden

New in the summer semester 2025: This new training series “AI Tools in the Scientific Work and Writing Process,” is aimed at researchers, teachers and students who want to deepen their skills in dealing with AI-supported applications.

Communications scholar Stephanie Geise on new technologies and the German election campaign

On 05 March 2025 Stud.IP will be updated from version 5.2.6 to version 5.5.3, i.e. on this day Stud.IP will NOT be available between 09:00 and 18:00.

The 2024 Berninghausen Prize for Excellence in Teaching has been awarded to three teaching staff members. Sociologist Sabine Ritter impressed the jury in the Excellence in Teaching category. The Student Prize goes to psychologist Barbara Cludius

The Opencast DACH Conference 2024 in Bremen was a great success. The German-speaking Opencast community gathered in Bremen to intensely discuss the further development and improvement of the Opencast system for automated lecture recordings over three days.

the ZMML invites the German-speaking Opencast community to the Opencast DACH conference in Bremen. The conference will take place from 23 September to 25 September.

Under the motto "Social. Intelligent. Competent," the ViTeach online conference of the VCRP, MMKH, and elan e.V. will take place on September 10, 2024, from 10:00–16:00. This year's event is dedicated to the diverse uses of social media in video-based teaching.

The autumn conference is aimed at Stud.IP providers and practitioners, and this is also reflected in the program: In addition to the presentation of Stud.IP 6, the focus will be on the practical implementation of Stud.IP, especially the use of artificial intelligence in teaching.

The University of Bremen enables all members to use the open source software Jupyter via its own hub. Until the end of the year, 30-minute short presentations will take place to get to know Jupyter.

On Monday, June 24, 2024, from 13:30 to 15:00, we are once again organizing a workshop "Legal Issues on Digitization in Teaching" with the speaker Prof. Dr. Iris Kirchner-Freis, LL.M.Eur. for lecturers at the University of Bremen.