We help you to feel at home in a new surrounding! Your ISA tutur will meet you at the airport or train station and make sure that you start smoothly into the new academic year. The ISA office offers regular outings and excursions for students. Moreover, our Meet the Europeans Programme takes you to interesting places in and around Bremen, Berlin, and Brussels.

The University is located in a lively, cosmopolitan city that is rich in tradition and history. A fascinating mix of tradition and modernity, familiarity and worldly tolerance gives this city its special cosmopolitan flair. Future-oriented sciences and research are as much an established part of this mixture as are industry, commerce and cultural variety.

There are countless architectural reminders showing how the people of Bremen once lived, how they worked and how they managed their affairs politically. For example, there is Roland, a statue more than five-and-a-half meters high, a paladin of Charlemagne, with his sword and shield. Since 1404, Roland has stood on Bremen's historic market square to symbolise the freedoms accorded this proudly independent hanseatic city. Another famous landmark, the Bremer Stadtmusikanten, is a symbol of this port city's openness, tolerance and cosmopolitan tradition. Bremen's gateway to the world is its harbour, ships and international commerce. Bremen enjoys a climate of worldly openness and tolerance, thanks to hundreds of years as a flourishing trade centre. International contacts and co-operation with partners at the business, scientific and personal level have brought to the city many inspirational influences from other cultures. People from all over the world continue to come to Bremen and its sister city, Bremerhaven, which together make up the German city-state of Bremen. It is the smallest of Germany's 16 states with a population of 660,000. The city of Bremen accounts for 540,000 of these inhabitants.