The SZHB turns 30 this year!

2025 is an anniversary year
This year, the Language Center of the Universities in Bremen is celebrating its 30th anniversary.
We will be celebrating this with various large and small events at all partner universities, with various cooperation partners, and throughout the year.
An overview of the various events will be available here shortly.

Special event: 30 years of the SZHB
Date: Saturday, May 24, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Location:City Library am Wall
Event details:
We are kicking off our anniversary year with a joint event on Saturday, May 24, 2025, together with the Bremen cultural institutes and the Bremen City Library. In collaboration, we will offer a range of activities for anyone interested in language learning and language fun. There will be workshops, picture book cinemas, language cafés, access to resources, a green screen with a photo campaign, an English quiz, and other playful activities for young and old.
We look forward to seeing you at the activity area, in the crime library, and on the pirate ship!
Also participating: Institut fran?ais, Goethe-Institut, and Instituto Cervantes
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Diversity Day at the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Location:Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences
What's on offer:
The SZHB is offering a sampler course in German sign language. The course is exclusively for employees and students of Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences.

30th anniversary celebration
Termin: Donnerstag, 26. Juni 2025, von 18:00 bis 20:00Uhr - Einlass ab 17:45 Uhr
Ort: Haus der Wissenschaft (Sandstra?e 4/5, 28195 Bremen)
Date: Thursday, June 26, 2025, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. - Doors open at 5:45 p.m.
Location:Haus der Wissenschaft (Sandstra?e 4/5, 28195 Bremen)
On June 26, 2025, the ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of the Language Center of the Universities in the Land of Bremen (SZHB) will take place. We will celebrate this special occasion together with guests from politics, science, and higher education.
After welcoming remarks by Kathrin Moosdorf (Senator for Environment, Climate, and Science), Dr. Mandy Boehnke (Vice President of the University of Bremen), and Dr. Astrid Buschmann-G?bels (Deputy Director of the SZHB), there will be a musical performance by the duo Yaku from the University of the Arts.
A special highlight of the program is the panel discussion on the topic
“Language learning in higher education contexts – past, present, and future”,
which will include representatives from the Language Center and students.
The event will conclude with a reception with drinks and light refreshments starting at 7:00 p.m.
Thank you to all guests who will join us in celebrating the 30th anniversary of the SZHB!
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Wissen um 11
Date: Saturday, June 21, 11:00 a.m.
Location:Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen
What's on offer:
On June 21, Prof. Dr. Claudia Harsch, Director of the SZHB, will speak as part of the “Wissen um 11” series at tHaus der Wissenschaft in downtown Bremen. The topic of her lecture is “Is my B1 your B1? Or what it means to be at language level B1” and is aimed at the interested public.