INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY BREMEN

Award for Cooperation Project between IUB and University Bremen

   

On Wednesday, November 16, the association "unifreunde" presented an award for the excellent research cooperation between the Bremen universities, IUB and University of Bremen.

[ Nov 16, 2005]  Together »Sparkasse Bremen« and »Unifreunde Bremen e.V.« (Society of the Friends of University of Bremen and IUB) award innovative cooperation projects between the two Bremen universities with the annual »Sparkassenpreis«.

This year’s laureates are Dr. Andrea Koschinsky, IUB Professor of Geosciences, and Dr. Volker Ratmeier, MARUM, University of Bremen. Endowed with 5.000 Euros the award was presented on 16 November 2005 in the newly founded downtown »Haus der Wissenschaft« (House of Science). They received the prize for cooperating on the IUB project »Hydrothermal Fluids at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as Media for the Transport of Energy and Mass from the Crust into the Hydro- and Biosphere«, the results of which have gained a high level of international recognition.

The project is part of the DFG priority program »From Mantle to Ocean: Energy-, Material- and Life Cycles at Spreading Axes«. Its objective is to quantify and characterize the processes at the mid-ocean ridges by detailed tectonic, geophysical, volcanological, geochemical, fluid-chemical and biological investigations. The »Sparkassenpreis« intendeds to strengthen Bremen as a center of research and teaching by encouraging cooperation between IUB and the University of Bremen. It also intends to support the development of a new generation of scholars and researchers at the two Bremen universities.

 


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