University of Bremen

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University of Bremen Universität Bremen


Established	1971
Type	Public
Rector	Wilfried Müller
Faculty	12
Staff	1,500
Students	20,000
Location	Bremen, Germany
Website	www.uni-bremen.de/

The University of Bremen (German Universität Bremen) is a university of about 20,000 students and 1,427 scientists in Bremen, Germany. It was founded in 1971. Bremen has been awarded City of Science 2005 by the Foundation for German Science (Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft). It has a collaboration with Jacobs University Bremen.

1 History
2 Organization
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Though Bremen became a university city only recently, higher education in Bremen has a long tradition:

1584 the Bremen Latin School was upgraded to "Gymnasium Academicum".

1610 it was transformed into "Gymnasium Illustre", where the four classical disciplines Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy were taught until 1810

1811 under Napoleonic rule the institution of a "French-Bremen University" was considered.

1948 plans for an "International University of Bremen" were discussed.

1971 the University of Bremen opened its doors.

today the University of Bremen is the science center of North West Germany

In the founding surge of new universities in Germany in the 1970s the University of Bremen, among many others, was considered a reform university in its pursuit of new approaches to teaching and research. These first reform ideas - known as the 'Bremen Model' - evolved into an attractive educational concept, characterised by interdisciplinary and practice-oriented project studies which enjoy a high reputation in the academic world as well as in business and industry. From 1996 until 2001 the University of Bremen (along with six other universities in Germany) has been participating in a pilot scheme for structural reform of university administration, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. This project has improved the co-operation and communication between the university's administrational, teaching and research units. By the realization of a "Notebook University" the University of Bremen has become a leading University in the field of digital media teaching in Germany.

[edit] Organization

The university has most notably reputation in industrial engineering, computer science, microbiology and astronautics and law, particularly European and environmental law.

These are the 12 faculties in which the university is divided into:

Faculty 01: Physics/Electrical Engineering
Faculty 02: Biology/Chemistry
Faculty 03: Mathematics/Computer Science
Faculty 04: Production Engineering - Mechanical Engineering & Process Engineering -
Faculty 05: Geosciences
Faculty 06: Law
Faculty 07: Business Studies and Economics
Faculty 08: Social Sciences
Faculty 09: Cultural Studies
Faculty 10: Languages and Literary Studies
Faculty 11: Human and Health Sciences
Faculty 12: Pedagogy and Educational Sciences