ALT After more than four years under construction, today (19 October 2023) an opening ceremony was held for the newly built Technical Centre on the new Climate Campus in Bremerhaven. In future, the Technical Centre is where the Alfred Wegener Institute will develop, test and prepare new equipment for use on expeditions. The project received 18.5 million euros of funding from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal State of Bremen. In honour of Alfred Wegener’s last companion, the building was named after the Greenlander Rasmus Willumsen. The AWI Technical Centre “Rasmus Willumsen House” will soon form the core of the new Climate Campus – on the former grounds of NORDSEE GmbH in Bremerhaven’s Klußmannstraße. Centrally located between the main channel and Handelshafen, it’s here that the AWI will develop and test new technologies for polar and deep-sea research. In addition to sufficient work space for ca. 40 technicians and researchers,
