By Aylin Krieger
06 Oct 2026
The Science Forum made research directly accessible to visitors. Over three days, interested guests could attend talks, explore experiments, ask questions and speak with researchers. Topics ranged from artificial intelligence, health and digitalisation to marine, polar and climate research, space, materials and sustainable production.
Several member institutions of the U Bremen Research Alliance also contributed with presentations and insights into their research: the German Maritime Museum, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).
For the U Bremen Research Alliance, the citizens’ festival was an opportunity to make research from Bremen and Bremerhaven visible where many people come together: in the heart of the city.
The joint presence with the University of Bremen and the Northwest Alliance showed what makes the research location strong: the diversity of its topics, collaboration across institutional boundaries and direct exchange with the public. Through conversations, experiments and concrete examples, research became vivid and accessible.
