Staff units

The key development objectives of the university strategy are set out in:

• the Hochschulentwicklungsplan 2030 – Auf dem Weg zur Hochschule Bremen 2030
• the Wissenschaftsplan 2030 „Transformation als Chance“ of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
• the „Zukunftsvertrag Studium und Lehre stärken“
• the Zielvereinbarung mit der Senatorin für Wissenschaft und Häfen 2022-2025

Areas of responsibility of the Strategy and University Planning Unit

• Advising and supporting the president's office and the faculties on matters of strategic development, planning and management with a view to sharpening the university’s profile and promoting its internationalisation, its roots in the region and its transformative character
• Formulating higher education policy issues, defining development goals and projects, and negotiating suitable framework conditions for their implementation – including academic resource planning (in particular planning for professorships)
• Annual target planning, calculation of standard curriculum values, utilisation rates and capacity
• Strategic degree programme planning and leading responsibility for the establishment, reorientation (including significant changes) and discontinuation of degree programmes in close cooperation with the faculties, other central HSB units and the Senator for the Environment, Climate and Science (approval applications)
• Participation in the application process as well as in the implementation and management of major profile-shaping projects such as:
  • STARS EU – Strategic Alliance for Regional Transition European University (EU):
    The EU-funded alliance comprises nine higher education institutions from across Europe and aims to collaborate through strategic synergies and the networking of partners in teaching, learning, research and knowledge transfer activities. The aim is to make a significant contribution to the sustainability-oriented transformation of the respective regions – and thus of Europe – through institutional organisational development in the spirit of a ‘European university’. 
    The Alliance’s activities are supported by further, complementary and reinforcing projects:
    • STARring (DAAD) Funding period 2024 - 2027
    • Fit for the STARS (SUKW) Funding period 2025 - 2027
    • TAMP Transnational Accessible Master Programmes (DAAD) Funding period 2026 -2028
• Drafting or leading the coordination of official reports and applications, reporting to university bodies, and maintaining contacts and networks with relevant internal and external decision-makers and stakeholders.

The Financial Controlling department, as a staff unit, reports directly to to HSB's Head of Administration. It advises and supports the head of Administration on all matters relating to financial controlling and provides decision-relevant information for the management of the university.

Key tasks include the preparation, analysis and evaluation of financial data as part of the internal reporting system. To this end, reports are produced regularly and the results are presented, amongst other things, as part of the quarterly risk management process.

Financial Controlling is responsible for producing the quarterly controlling report as well as the biennial business plan. The reports serve as an important basis for the university’s financial management and are submitted to the Senator responsible for the Environment, Climate and Science.

In addition, Financial Controlling prepares HSB's internal budget annually and supports financial planning and resource management. In the area of research funding, the overhead rate for research projects is calculated in SAP.

Other tasks include maintaining SAP master data, such as setting up cost centres, and carrying out transfer postings in the SAP system. Furthermore, Financial Controlling acts as the central point of contact for new SAP applications, change requests and deletion requests, which are forwarded to the SAP hotline via the administrative office.

The internal auditor acts on behalf of the university management. Its tasks include evaluating work processes, checking compliance with regulations and preventing corruption and fraudulent acts.