The universities of Bremen and Oldenburg are continuing to develop the NWA. President Günther and President Bruder outlined the next steps. The focus is on strategic planning in research, teaching, and knowledge transfer, as well as collaboration with the University of Groningen.
Wind energy, marine research, medicine, and more: In the We Are Connected video series, researchers from Bremen and Oldenburg demonstrate the benefits of combining different areas of expertise. The videos illustrate how the Northwest Alliance fosters new collaborations, strengthens existing connections, and brings together people from different universities.
Unfortunately, the Northwest Alliance (NWA), the consortium formed by the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg, was not selected as a University Excellence Consortium in the current round of the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The German Science and Humanities Council announced in Bonn which locations will receive funding.
Wind turbines are examples of digitally controlled cyber-physical systems in which software and hardware interact with the physical world. The computer science fields involved are diverse, ranging from computer architecture to software engineering, artificial intelligence, and energy informatics. All of these fields converge together in the CAUSE Research Training Group. This is a prime example of how the research focuses of the universities of Bremen and Oldenburg complement each other within the Northwest Alliance.
Even before the Northwest Alliance was officially established in January 2025, the staff councils at the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg recognized that they could better serve staff by joining forces. In this interview, Rea Kodalle and Eike Mayland-Quellhorst from Oldenburg, along with Dr. Sibylle Seyferth from Bremen, share how their collaboration works in practice.
The Data Encounters Northwest workshop, organized by the Data Science Center (DSC) at the University of Bremen and the WiZArD – Scientific Centre for Methods of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at the University of Oldenburg, will explore the transformative potential of data-driven research.
Research advisory boards bring citizens closer to science – and researchers closer to the lived reality of study participants. A visit with the advisory board of the Bremen-Oldenburg research training group HEARAZ.
From September 7 to 10, around 2,000 researchers from around the world gathered at the 2026 Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGP). The event featured a symposium by researchers from the University of Bremen and the University of Oldenburg, who presented their work on AI and children.
New statistical methods, which have applications far beyond the field of mathematics, are the focus of a three-day joint event organised by the Centre for Statistics in Oldenburg and Bremen. Registrations are open until 2 September.
