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Photo of Ralph Bruder, Kathrin Moosdorf, Falko Mohrs, and Jutta Günther, with a HWK Institute for Advanced Study building in the background.

University of Excellence: Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen Join Forces

The universities of Bremen and Oldenburg want to move into the future as a University Excellence Consortium. The two universities submitted their letter of intent to the German Science and Humanities Council (Wissenschaftsrat, WR) today, meeting the deadline.

Marine research, animal navigation, materials sciences and technologies and hearing research are the topics of the four approved Clusters of Excellence of the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg.

Four Cluster Successes Secure Ticket to the “University of Excellence” Race

Connect four: All four Excellence Clusters submitted by the founding universities of the Northwest Alliance—Bremen and Oldenburg—have been approved as part of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments. This outstanding accomplishment marks a major milestone and opens the door to the next big goal: applying together for the title of “University of Excellence.”

Ceremonial signing of a renewed cooperation agreement between the Universities of Oldenburg and Bremen for the joint support of early-career researchers.

Graduate institutions renew their cooperation agreement

They have been working together successfully since 2016: The Graduate Academy of the University of Oldenburg and the Bremen Early Career Researcher Development (BYRD) of the University of Bremen. The cooperation agreement has now been renewed – with the common goal of providing even better support for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers at both institutions in the future.