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55-751: Constructor University , formerly Jacobs University Bremen , is an international, private, residential research university located in Vegesack , Bremen , Germany. It offers study programs in engineering, humanities , natural and social sciences , in which students can acquire bachelor's, master's or doctorate degrees. Most of the instruction at the university is in English. Constructor University's students come from more than 110 countries, with about 80% foreign students and approximately 33% international faculty members. Constructor University (previously called Jacobs University and International University Bremen)

110-540: A PhD degree at Constructor University: The academic preparation program, the International Foundation Year, provides tailored academic and personal support for individual development and prepares participants for the challenges of university-level study. In addition to building your academic knowledge and skills, the program builds self-confidence and teaches important lifelong social, professional and personal skills. The international nature of

165-550: A bachelor's or master's degree program are around €20,000 per academic year. Additional costs are incurred for room and board. A system of scholarships and loans is designed to ensure that all admitted applicants to bachelor's programs can begin their studies. Following the motto "Study now, pay later," Constructor University offers a financing model for tuition fees together with the Brain Capital education fund. Source: Source: There are two different approaches to earning

220-562: A library and digital resources, sport, leisure and park facilities. The financing of Constructor University has been the subject of controversy, especially in Bremen. For a long time, the university generated income from various sources such as tuition fees, donations, third-party funding and grants from the Jacobs Foundation. Funding from the state of Bremen, amounting to three million euros annually, expired in 2017. In June 2018,

275-473: A melting pot of cultures, ideas and perspectives and aims to create a safe and attractive learning environment. From counseling and intercultural services, job and career services, German courses, club activities, to campus life offerings, students have access to numerous resources. At Constructor University, both teaching and research are organized into three thematic areas of focus, comparable to faculties at other German universities. 1. Mobility: Understanding

330-531: A research output of more than 1000 research papers over 5 years, and no more than 80% of activity in a single subject area ( Times Higher Education World University Rankings ) . The QS World University Ranking for 2021 included 1002 research universities. The region with the highest number was Europe , with 39.8%, followed by Asia /Pacific with 26.7%, the US and Canada with 15.6%, Latin America with 10.8% and

385-595: A similar distribution, with 185 of their 500 ranked institutions in 2020 coming from Europe, 161 from the Americas, 149 from Asia/Oceania and five from Africa. All regions except Africa are represented in the top 100, although the Americas are represented solely by universities from the United States and Canada. In 2024, the US has the most universities in the top 500 from a single country, 114, followed by China with 103,

440-639: A sustainable development in the environmental, economic, and social points of view". Novoselov is known for his interest in art. He practices in Chinese traditional drawing and has been involved in several projects on modern art. Thus, in February 2015 he combined forces with Cornelia Parker to create a display for the opening of the Whitworth Art Gallery . Cornelia Parker's meteorite shower firework (pieces of meteorites loaded in firework)

495-495: A total of 120 international partners foster the international atmosphere. Overseen by resident mentors, the vast majority of students live on campus in one of four colleges. They pursue their sporting, social, political or cultural interests in more than 50 student clubs. Constructor students organize a number of recurring events on campus such as conferences, culture information days, sports competitions and art exhibitions. Constructor University has two groups of student government:

550-455: Is English. The degree programs are practice-oriented. Students are involved in the research work of their professors from the first semester onwards, and in the fifth semester there is the possibility of a stay abroad. The program can be completed with the academic degrees Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Arts, Master of Science, Executive Master / Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.). Tuition fees for

605-904: Is a Russian–British physicist. His work on graphene with Andre Geim earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010. Novoselov is a professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials , National University of Singapore and is also the Langworthy Professor of the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester . Konstantin Novoselov was born in Nizhny Tagil , Soviet Union , in 1974. He graduated from

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660-401: Is composed of four organs: the councilors, the board of trustees, the board of governors and the executive board, which comprises the managing director and the president. The board of governors is the central decision-making committee for all the fundamental questions of the university's development, including the appointment of the president and the professors. Christian Jacobs, the eldest son of

715-719: Is fond of Chinese calligraphy and drawing. He learned it from a prominent Chinese artist Zheng Shenglong . Nine ink paintings by Prof. Novoselov were shown at the exhibition "Britain Through the Eyes of a Chinese Diplomat" at the University of Leeds. One of his paintings is now in the collection of President of China Xi Jinping . Novoselov participated in Viennacontemporary in 2017, where 5 of his works have been presented by RDI.Creative gallery. The paintings presented

770-819: Is located on the site of the former Roland Barracks in Bremen-Grohn. The site was erected in 1938 during the National Socialist period. After the Second World War it was transformed into a displaced-persons camp by the International Refugee Organization under the management of the American forces known as Camp Grohn. Shortly after the formation of the Bundeswehr , Camp Grohn was passed into the responsibility of

825-775: Is one of the most popular universities among researchers from abroad and ranks seventh among the more than 80 universities evaluated in a Germany-wide comparison. The ranking is based on the number of guest stays by top international and junior researchers who have conducted research in Germany as fellows or award winners of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the past five years. The university closely cooperates with many local and international partners, including students exchange, faculty mobility, joint programs, and research collaborations. The partners include world-renowned institutions, such as: The Jacobs University Alumni Association

880-694: The Bologna Process . The majority of German universities does not charge tuition fees, but only collect a small service fee. Dormitories and meals are managed by Studentenwerk , a municipal student service organization independent of universities. Jacobs as a private university, offers 3-year undergraduate programs with less expensive tuition fees and provides accommodation on the residential campus for its student. A typical 4-year US program includes physical educations, requiring its students to take around four to five courses per semester. Like German universities, Jacobs' s 3-year program offers athletics in

935-583: The Middle East and Africa with 7%. All regions except the Middle East and Africa were represented in the top 100. The largest number of new entrants to the rankings were from East Asia and Eastern Europe , followed by Southern Europe . By individual country, the US has the most institutions with 151, followed by the UK with 84, China with 51, and Germany with 45. The top 200 shows a similar pattern with

990-724: The Ministry of Education and NUS, the centre will work on making ground-breaking discoveries into what are called functional intelligent materials. Novoselov led the academic team which overviewed the design, construction and launching of the National Graphene Institute . He contributed with a number of unique architectural and technical solutions. The veil of the National Graphene Institute depicts formulae from his and Prof. A. Geim early works on graphene. Also, Novoselov confirms that among

1045-627: The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a MSc degree in 1997, and was awarded a PhD from the Radboud University of Nijmegen in 2004 for work supervised by Andre Geim . Konstantin Novoselov uses the nickname "Kostya" ( diminutive of the name Konstantin ). Novoselov has published 475 peer-reviewed research papers on several topics including mesoscopic superconductivity ( Hall magnetometry ) as of January 2024 subatomic movements of magnetic domain walls ,

1100-414: The University of California , have served as models for research universities around the world. Having one or more universities based on the American model (including the use of English as a lingua franca ) is a badge of "social progress and modernity " for the contemporary nation-state . The Americans' continued dominance into the early 21st century has forced their European counterparts to confront

1155-626: The 1500 universities ranked from 86 countries: the U.S. is again top, with 255, followed by China with 176 and the UK with 87. The 2024 CWTS Leiden Ranking includes 1,506 universities in the rankings from 65 countries: China tops the list, with 313, followed by the U.S. with 206, and the UK with 63. Konstantin Novoselov Sir Konstantin Sergeevich Novoselov (Russian: Константи́н Серге́евич Новосёлов , IPA: [kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ nəvɐˈsʲɵləf] ; born 23 August 1974)

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1210-478: The American military–industrial complex and developing artificial intelligence , and Berkeley and Stanford played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley . The "most prestigious group of research universities" in the United States is the Association of American Universities . Since the 1960s, American research universities, especially the leading American public research university system ,

1265-518: The American context, as having values of intellectual freedom, initiative and creativity, excellence, and openness, with such additional characteristics as: Global university rankings use metrics that primarily measure research to rank universities. Some also have criteria for inclusion based on the concept of a research university such as teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and conducting work in multiple faculties ( QS World University Rankings ), or teaching undergraduates, having

1320-612: The Bremen Senate approved the sale of Bremen's shares to the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT). The new majority owner plans to invest 50 million euros in Jacobs University, half of which by the end of 2024. In November 2022 SIT changed its name to Constructor Group. The university is managed by a not-for-profit company Constructor University Bremen gGmbH . In line with the statutes, it

1375-513: The German government in 1955 and renamed Roland Kaserne . Roland Kaserne housed a Bundeswehr logistics school during the Cold War . In 1999, the military base was inactivated, making way for the university. The approximately 34-hectare site of the campus university is home to four residential colleges, buildings for administration, lecturing and research, an Information Resource Center (IRC) with

1430-578: The Jacobs Foundation decided to support the private university with a maximum of another 100 million Swiss francs until 2027. Also in June 2018, the city of Bremen decided that it would take over a loan from the university's founding phase. In the summer of 2020, the Jacobs Foundation announced its withdrawal from funding. The foundation's majority shares were transferred to the Verein zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Bremen e.V. In September 2021,

1485-665: The School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. The development of the institute was funded by the Canton of Schaffhausen with 3 million Swiss francs. The academic focus is led by 2010 Nobel Prize winner in physics Konstantin Novoselov . Constructor University offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs, as well as a preparatory program. From the first semester, students are involved in their professors' research projects. The university sees itself as

1540-690: The UK with 35 and Germany with 35. The top 200 shows the similar pattern: the US with 59 followed by China with 37 and the UK with 20. The 2024 Times Higher Education only gives a breakdown by country and only for its top 200; this again has the U.S. at the top with 56, followed by the UK with 25, Germany with 21, and China with 13. The top 200 features one university from Africa, the University of Cape Town in South Africa , but none from Latin America . The U.S. News & World Report Best Global Universities Ranking 2021 gives numbers by country for

1595-526: The US having 45 universities, the UK 26 and Germany 12. By comparison, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education (2015) identifies 115 US universities as "Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity" and a further 107 as "Doctoral Universities: Higher Research Activity", while Altbach estimated that there were around 220 research universities in the US in 2013. The Academic Ranking of World Universities shows

1650-585: The Undergraduate Student Government (USG) and the Graduate Student Association (GSA), representing the undergraduate and graduate student body, respectively. Research in the three Focus Areas is an important pillar of Constructor University. Its scientists have made a name for themselves through a variety of international and national research projects. There are currently 4 functional research facilities in

1705-438: The United States and Japan also have well-known private research institutions. Institutions of higher education that are not research universities or do not aspire to that designation, such as liberal arts colleges , instead place more emphasis on student instruction or other aspects of tertiary education, whereas research university faculty members, in contrast, are under more pressure to publish or perish . The concept of

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1760-412: The box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena. Later, they've got to diverge a little bit because scientists will start to look at the common elements between many of the phenomena to describe the most general law, and artists will probably try to study individuals rather than the crowd as a whole. But we're just two sides of the same medal. Novoselov

1815-606: The certification of new knowledge" through the awarding of doctoral degrees , and continue to be "the very center of scientific productivity". They can be public or private , and often have well-known brand names. Undergraduate courses at many research universities are often academic rather than vocational and may not prepare students for particular careers, but many employers value degrees from research universities because they teach fundamental life skills such as critical thinking . Globally, research universities are overwhelmingly public institutions , while some countries like

1870-825: The discovery of gecko tape and graphene . Kostya Novoselov participated in the Graphene Flagship project – a €1 billion initiative of the European Commission – and was featured in the official promotion movie of the project. Novoselov was the first Director of the National Graphene Institute and sits on the International Scientific Advisory Committee of Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies . Novoselov

1925-513: The entrepreneur and patron Klaus J. Jacobs (1936–2008), is a member of the board of trustees of the Jacobs Foundation. Sources: Constructor Group, previously known as the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology , abbreviated SIT, is a private non-profit institute in Switzerland founded in 2019 by entrepreneur Serg Bell. The institute focuses on computer science, physics and digital transformation. Its partners are Carnegie Mellon University and

1980-617: The establishment of American hegemony by the end of the 20th century. Most importantly, Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, and Princeton (along with Birmingham and Cambridge in the UK) directly participated in the creation of the first nuclear weapons (the Manhattan Project ). Besides that, Columbia and Harvard were instrumental in the early development of the American film industry (Hollywood), MIT and Stanford were leaders in building

2035-507: The form of extracurricular activities. The average 30 ECTS per semester include more than 6 courses of soft skills training(e.g. language courses as additional competences). Jacobs also provides career advising as mandatory courses. The admission process of Constructor University follows the US-American system. Constructor University offers companies various opportunities for cooperation, which include long-term research collaborations,

2090-758: The formulae several scientific jokes are hidden, though he has never revealed them. He co-authored a book on the architecture of the National Graphene Institute. In 2018, in a project of exploration of the archives of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Prof. Novoselov helped Prof. Tim O'Brian to transcribe radio transmission (most possibly simulated instrument reading) from the Soviet Zond 6 received by radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in November 1968. "For Leadership in developing and applying new materials methods and technologies for

2145-445: The global movement of people, goods, and information. 2. Health: developing solutions for a healthier world. 3. Diversity: Deciphering a modern, global world. Both undergraduate and graduate programs are offered in these Focus Areas. In addition, the university offers a college preparatory program. Its purpose is to help students decide on their future study path and meet international admission criteria. The language of instruction

2200-480: The greatest number of hot papers during 2012–2013". Novoselov joined the National University of Singapore's Centre for Advanced 2D Materials in 2019, making him the first Nobel laureate to join a Singaporean university. In 2021, he pioneered with Antonio H. Castro Neto a new research centre at the National University of Singapore called IFIM. With $ 200 million in funding over 10 years provided by

2255-536: The late 19th century, when these fifteen institutions began to graft graduate programs derived from the German model onto undergraduate programs derived from the British model. At Johns Hopkins, president Daniel Coit Gilman led the development of the American research university by setting high standards for recruiting faculty and admitting students, and insisting that faculty members had to commit to both teaching and research. Research universities were essential to

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2310-419: The meal plan system, highlighting the crucial role of robust cyber security protocols in safeguarding educational institutions. Research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are "the key sites of knowledge production ", along with "intergenerational knowledge transfer and

2365-430: The provision of scientific services as part of short-term research and development projects, or training of junior and managerial staff. In early February, Constructor University grappled with a cyber security breach, resulting in a week-long campus-wide internet blackout. While no data compromise was reported, functionality was only partially restored by late March. The incident's impact extended to essential services like

2420-426: The research university first arose in early 19th-century Prussia in Germany, where Wilhelm von Humboldt championed his vision of Einheit von Lehre und Forschung (the unity of teaching and research), as a means of producing an education that focused on the main areas of knowledge, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities , rather than on the previous goals of the university education, which

2475-414: The student body is one of the defining characteristics of Constructor University. Currently more than 1,600 students from over 110 nations are matriculated at the university (status as of December 2022). Most students come from Germany (16.1%), followed by India (7.2%), Nepal (7.0%), USA (5.0%), Albania (4.4%), Pakistan (4.2%), Morocco (3.5%), China (3.1%), Ethiopia (2.3%) and South Korea (2.1%). Programs with

2530-401: The university is placed at 401–500 globally and 37–41 within the country. In 2021, Constructor University ranked 27th in a comparison of 475 universities worldwide that are younger than 50. Constructor is steadily improving in the nationwide comparison, reaching 2nd place in 2021. In the categories "Teaching" and "Internationality" it reaches first place in 2021 [BM2] . Constructor University

2585-703: The university's campus, in which students and staff work for their research projects. In 2017, each professor raised an average of 205,900 euros in third-party funding [BM1] . Research projects at Constructor University are funded by the German Research Foundation or by the European Union's Framework Program for Research and Innovation, as well as by globally leading companies. In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings of 2024,

2640-821: The university, is one of the three shareholders in Constructor University and owns a sixth of the shares in the school. The president of the Alumni Association is also a member of the board of governors, thus taking a very active role in shaping the future of the institution. Constructor University has combined features of typical US and German higher education institutions. US universities can be public or private and typically offer 4-year undergraduate programs. They charge high annual tuition fees and provide accommodation for students to live on campus. in contrast, most German universities are public and offer 3-year undergraduate programs in accordance with

2695-540: The urgent need for reform to avoid "declining into an advanced form of feeder colleges for the best American universities." John Taylor, Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of Liverpool , defines the key characteristics of successful research universities as: Philip Altbach defines a different, although similar, set of key characteristics for what research universities need to become successful: A 2012 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report defined research universities, in

2750-532: Was also a recipient of a starting grant from the European Research Council . Kostya Novoselov made it into a shortlist of scientists with multiple hot papers for the years 2007–2008 (shared second place with 13 hot papers) and 2009 (5th place with 12 hot papers). In 2014 Kostya Novoselov was included in the list of the most highly cited researchers. He was also named among the 17 hottest researchers worldwide—"individuals who have published

2805-420: Was extracted from each of the drawings. In 2015 he participated in "in conversation" session with Douglas Gordon during Interdependence session at Manchester International Festival . He also participates in discussions on the relation between art and science. Novoselov believes that artists and scientists both rely on curiosity, willingness to learn and imagination: Artists and scientists both think outside

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2860-618: Was founded in 1999 with the support of the University of Bremen , Rice University in Houston, Texas, and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, with study programs beginning in 2001. The Jacobs Foundation invested €200 million in the institution in November 2006, thus taking over a two-thirds majority of the partnership share. At the beginning of 2007, the university changed its name to Jacobs University Bremen. In November 2022 it changed its name to Constructor University. The campus

2915-409: Was founded in 2004. It has around 2000 members; the percentage of new graduates that join the association is approximately 70%. In 2008, a limited company was founded as Jacobs University Bremen Alumni & Friends GmbH, laying the legal foundations to give the alumni a say in the university's development. The limited company, which is 99-percent owned by the Alumni Association, with one percent owned by

2970-501: Was launched by Novoselov breathing on graphene gas sensor (which changed the resistance of graphene due to doping by water vapour). Graphene was obtained through exfoliation of graphite which was extracted from a drawing of William Blake . Novoselov suggested that he also exfoliated graphite obtained from the drawings of other prominent artists: John Constable , Pablo Picasso , J. M. W. Turner , Thomas Girtin . He said that only microscopic amounts (flake size less than 100 micrometres)

3025-746: Was to develop an understanding of truth, beauty, and goodness . Roger L. Geiger , "the leading historian of the American research university," has argued that "the model for the American research university was established by five of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution ( Harvard , Yale , Pennsylvania , Princeton , and Columbia ); five state universities ( Michigan , Wisconsin , Minnesota , Illinois , and California ); and five private institutions conceived from their inception as research universities ( MIT , Cornell , Johns Hopkins , Stanford , and Chicago )." The American research university first emerged in

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