The speakers at the DAM Parliamentary Evening in Bremen City Hall. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
“Science cannot take decisions away from politics, but it can and must provide us with its rational findings as a basis for our decisions,” emphasized Mayor Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte in his welcoming address at the Parliamentary Evening of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) on 21 October 2024 in Bremen. With these words, he opened an event that underlined the importance of marine research for politics in the federal state of Bremen. Around 100 guests from politics, science, business and society had accepted the invitation from the German Marine Research Alliance to gather information and engage in dialogue. The scientific part of the evening offered insights into current research results from the DAM research missions CDRmare and mareXtreme, in which MARUM is currently playing a key role.
