University of Bremen Foundation and Trust Foundations Award 90,000 Euros for Innovative Projects

The individual categories were educational equity and education for sustainable development, medicine/health, help for refugees and conferences at the University of Bremen. The funding was made possible by the University Foundation, the Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation, the Iris and Hartmut Jürgens Foundation – Chance for a New Life, the Karin and Heinz-Otto Peitgen Foundation and the Dr. Heino Rose Foundation.

30 project proposals were received. The five foundations have now selected 17 projects, taking into account their own priorities and funding strategies. This year they are jointly funding some of these projects with a total of almost 90,000 euros. Three projects are also expected to be co-financed by the Kellner & Stoll Foundation for Climate and Environment.

The funding projects 2024/25 in detail:

1. Prof. Dr. phil. Sabine Doff: Balancing act of educational justice (Dr. Heino Rose Foundation)
2. Dr. Ina Schenker: LitLab – The Literature Laboratory at Department 10 (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
3. Dr. Matthias Knauer: Canteen vouchers for school interns (Karin and Heinz-Otto Peitgen Foundation)
4. Dr. Hanne Ballhausen: meerMINT meets OPENSEA (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
5. Dr. Sarah L. Fornol: Promoting listening comprehension in primary schools (HöPf) – Development of teaching materials to promote listening comprehension using a design-based teaching and research concept (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
6. PhD Raphaell Moreira: Forever Chemicals (PFAS) and Water Literacy: Education for Sustainable Development Initiative (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
7. Dr. Yildiray Ogurol: Future Skills for Students – Digital Literacy Event Concept (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
8. Dr. Martina Osmers: Eating the sea: Are algae and other food the future on our plates? (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
9. PD Dr. Cordula Weißköppel: Old meets young. Dialogues on sustainability between the generations (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
10. Dr. Detta Sophie Schütz: Goal-oriented dialogic reading as a method for everyday language support in primary schools (ZDL School) (Foundation of the University of Bremen, Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation, Iris and Hartmut Jürgens Foundation, Karin and Heinz-Otto Peitgen Foundation)
11. Dr. Ulrike Flader: Education in times of conflict: Digital teaching cooperation with the University of Rojava on “Nationalism and its Alternatives” (Foundation of the University of Bremen)
12. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Meyer: Quantitative limits for low-risk gambling behavior in Germany: Results of the data analysis of the Gambling Survey 2023 (Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation)
13. Prof. Dr. Eva Quante-Brandt, Lisa Kühne, Hanna Richter: Health professionals at Bremen primary schools – teaching health literacy and overcoming health inequalities (Dr. Heino Rose Foundation)
14. Prof. Dr. Cornelius Torp: (Un)Sustainabilities in History: Mastering Uncertainty, Defeating Precarity. International Conference at the University of Bremen (Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation)
15. Dr. Yildiray Ogurol, ZMML: Opencast DACH Conference (Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation)
16. Dr. Susanne Huber: Symposium: Capital in the Minus – Debt as a Form and Relational Structure (Manfred and Ursula Fluß Foundation)
17. Dr. Philipp Schulz: Self-organization, solidarity and empowerment of refugees in Bremen (Iris and Hartmut Jürgens Foundation)