The University of Oldenburg and the University of Bremen have been cooperating in various areas since 2000. From 2001/2002, the first enrolments in cooperative subjects were possible at the other location. In 2002/03, the joint Bachelor's degree programme in Comparative and European Law ("Hanse Law School") was launched, which led to a new Master's degree programme in 2005/06. Due to the Bachelor-Master changeover at both universities, the co-operation was suspended in 2005.

A newly revised co-operation agreement was signed in March 2006. Since 2008/09, the two universities have been offering our current cooperation programme for certain subjects (and school types). There are a total of three options:

- Variant 1: Studying with a co-operation subject

In this variant, you study one subject at the University of Oldenburg and a second subject at the University of Bremen or vice versa. You are enrolled at both universities, but are only administered by one university, your home university. If two co-operation subjects are studied together (e.g. French and Spanish), this is generally not possible via the co-operation. In this example, students would only study at the University of Bremen. In the following, we explain the study options within the framework of this variant in the Bachelor's and Master's programmes.

IN THE TWO-SUBJECT BACHELOR'S PROGRAMME

You can only choose a few subjects for this Bachelor's degree programme. The main feature of these subjects is that they are only offered at one of the locations. Please inform yourself carefully - especially in the language programmes - about the study requirements and the recommended course structure. You can obtain information on this from the Central Student Advisory Service and the subject advisors (see left).

Selected subjects are available that the other university cannot offer, so that you have additional combinations of subjects to choose from. You will study one of your subjects at each of the two universities.

Bachelor's degree programme with home university Oldenburg

You can study the following second subjects with a teacher training option at the University of Bremen:

• Francophone studies/French (GYM, Wipäd)¹
• Geography/Earth Studies (GYM, Sopäd)
• Hispanic Studies/Spanish (GYM, Wipäd)

Bachelor's degree programme with home university Bremen

You can study the following second subjects at the University of Oldenburg:

• Dutch Studies
• Material Culture: Textile²
• Slavic Studies / Russian or Polish (GY/OS)

IN THE MASTER OF EDUCATION

You can continue to study your combination of subjects from a teaching-oriented Bachelor's degree in a Master of Education. However, this is only possible if you have already studied your Bachelor's degree as a cooperative degree programme at the University of Bremen/Oldenburg. Students from other universities who wish to transfer to Oldenburg or Bremen for a Master of Education cannot start a cooperative study programme!

Master's programme with home university Oldenburg

You can continue the combination of subjects you started at the University of Bremen in the following Master of Education subjects:

• French (GYM, Wipäd)
• Geography (GYM, Sopäd)
• Spanish (GYM, Wipäd)

Master's degree programme with home university Bremen

Your study goal is a Master of Education GY/OS in the state of Bremen: you can continue the teaching subject Russian at the University of Oldenburg.

- Option 2: Cooperative module use

In option 2, you are only enrolled at one university and only commute to the partner university for individual modules. These modules can be recognised in your degree programme - either by individual agreement or by agreement between the subjects concerned. The aim of this option is to enable students from both universities to use the modules from the partner university in an unbureaucratic manner and to guarantee the credits earned without individual agreements (so-called equivalence modules). In addition, university cooperation can also take place within the framework of a module exchange.

Note: this option is currently under development.

- Variant 3: Cooperative teaching/degree programmes

Lecturers from both universities are responsible for a joint degree programme or design cooperative courses at both universities. This option includes, for example, the joint Bachelor's and Master's degree programme in Comparative and European Law (Hanse Law School). This programme is jointly run by the Universities of Bremen and Oldenburg and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

Further information can be found here: www.uni-oldenburg.de/hanselawschool/diekooperation/

Abbreviations according to the respective school type: GYM: Gymnasium (Nds.) | Wipäd: Business Education/Berufsbildende Schulen (Nds.) | Sopäd: Sonderpädagogik/Förderschulen (Nds.) or correspondingly in Bremen: GY/OS: grammar school/high school

²Please note: This subject is not a school subject in the state of Bremen!