The University of Bremen is particularly strong in these five key research areas.
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Strong in Research
Researchers at the University of Bremen are looking for answers to the big questions facing today's communities. For more than 50 years, the University of Bremen has been an inspiring place for research - diverse, collaborative and eager to experiment. It is a young, fully-fledged university that is internationally linked and very successful in attracting third-party funding. This applies both to excellent individual researchers and to larger collaborative initiatives.
In particular, the University of Bremen is strong when it comes to research in its five key scientific areas, including two clusters of excellence in the key scientific areas of “Marine, Polar and Climate Research” and “Materials Science and Technologies”.
Contact persons for all research services at the University of Bremen can be found on the website of Unit 12 Research and Early-Career Researchers.
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The University of Bremen bundles its research activities in twelve departments, the MARUM Research Faculty, and numerous research institutes. The Research Commission, appointed by the Academic Senate, works closely with the Rectorate to further develop the strategic framework across departments, strengthen cooperation, interdisciplinarity, and knowledge transfer, and support the evaluation of central units.
Researchers address key issues for the future in five interdisciplinary high-profile reserach areas—ranging from marine and climate research to sustainable production and materials research, social dynamics and digital transformation, and health and healthcare research—working closely with partners outside the university. As a research-intensive university, the University of Bremen is involved in numerous nationally and internationally funded third-party projects.
Learn more about our research facilities and projects, our High-Profile Areas, and our third-party funding.
The University of Bremen is successfully participating in the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments with two Clusters of Excellence. Since 2012, scientists in the cluster ‘The Ocean Floor - Earth's Uncharted Interface' have been researching fundamental processes and the interaction of the ocean floor with the entire Earth system. This cluster has been based at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences since 2019.
Since 2026, a second Cluster of Excellence will be funded: ‘The Martian Mindset - A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm’ at the MAPEX Cente for Materials and Processes. The cluster will work on new resilient and highly automated sustainability models that use the scarcity of resources on Mars as a model.
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