Hands-on experiments at the ZMT tent: Professor Jutta Günther, President of the University of Bremen | Photo: Lisa Zimmermann, ZMT

26/06/2023 | On Saturday, 24 June 2023,  around 20,000 guests visited the University of Bremen's OPEN CAMPUS. With a full programme of lectures, guided tours and poetry slam, the OPEN CAMPUS offered a look behind the scenes of the universiyta nd local research institutions. Under the motto "Open up worlds - share knowledge", members of the university and other research institutes as well as many helpers were on hand to make this year's OPEN CAMPUS a successful event. Together with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, ZMT hosted a pagoda on the topic of "Use and Protecting the Oceans". Lara Stuthmann, doctoral candidate in the working group Experimental Aquaculture, presented her research on algae as a sustainable food resource, offered hands-on experiments and talked about her new school laboratory project "Meer-Essen" in cooperation with the university.

Here are some impressions from the day in the ZMT-MPI tent:

Photos: Lisa Zimmermann, ZMT

The interest was already great at the opening: Numerous visitors came to the Campus Park from 12 noon to find out about studies, research, training, work and the diverse international life of the university in the more than 30 pagodas.

"I am very pleased about the great interest," said the University Presiedent, Professor Jutta Günther. "The OPEN CAMPUS is a great opportunity to show visitors how diverse and exciting our university is, which is, after all, the university of all Bremeners. There were many exciting opportunities for exchange. I would like to thank all the staff and students for their great commitment."