University of Bremen submits two excellence cluster applications

The seemingly unlimited availability of resources has enabled mankind to achieve rapid population growth, which has been accompanied by the massive exploitation of fossil fuels. With the resulting progressive destruction of the environment, the world is now heading towards an age of resource scarcity that threatens to shake almost all production technologies to their foundations. Research efforts worldwide are increasingly focused on tackling these challenges by making production more sustainable, efficient and automated.

In the context of this effort the University of Bremen submitted a groundbreaking cluster application, "The Martian Mindset: A Scarcity-Driven Engineering Paradigm." This initiative aims to develop solutions for sustaining human life on Mars — an environment where resources such as water, oxygen, food, but also  energy, astronaut time and information are critically scarce. The team around Prof. Marc Avila, ZARM director and speaker of the "Marsian Mindset", views these constraints not as insurmountable problems but as opportunities for innovation. By addressing the challenges of living on Mars, their findings could directly contribute to solving pressing sustainability issues here on Earth.

Please find the complete press release of the University of Bremen here: www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/hochschulkommunikation-und-marketing/aktuelle-meldungen/detailansicht/uni-bremen-geht-mit-zwei-clusterantraegen-ins-rennen-um-die-exzellenz