Clubs

These are the existing clubs at Jacobs University Bremen. To view a detailed list of the Sport Clubs, CLICK HERE.

Note: The membership fees are collected each semester. It is the responsibility of the club leader to collect the fees. For Spring 2010, the deadline for submitting the fees to CAIA is 26th of February.

Amnesty Club

Amnesty International is a non profit organization, with people from around the world campaigning for internationally recognized human rights for all. With over 2.2 million members who are outraged by human rights abuses, the organization strives for bettering the human rights situation though campaigning and international solidarity.
The Amnesty International chapter on campus treads on the same ideals as its parent worldwide organization while trying to spread awareness across campus along with taking actions via petition signing, letter writing, public demonstrations and the like. We coordinate our activities with the other groups in Bremen while striving to achieve internationally acceptable human rights.

Contact: Gesche f.funk@jacobs-university.de; Brian b.chan@jacobs-university.de; Büsra a.todil@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Krupp common room / SAC Room 210
Meeting time: Wednesdays 1.15pm
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://teamwork.jacobs-university.de/confluence/display/amnesty/Home
The Literature and Arts Journal Club

Art Club

At a school like Jacobs, it’s hard to look past one’s pile of readers and computer screen to the more creative aspects of life. That’s why a small group of highly dedicated students have created the new Art Club – a place for people who love painting. A place for people who love messiness. A place for photographers, sculptors, cartoonists, and those “I am so not an artist” people who just want to get away from it all.
Art Club is not about being precise – meetings will happen sporadically, with email notifications of when future events will be held.

Contact: Kathleen Frazier, k.frazier@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC, Rooms 302, 304.
Meeting time: email notifications
Membership fee: to be announced

B-a-Link

B-a-Link is about getting involved and actively shaping our university experience into what we would like it to be. The activities we organize are diverse, ranging from the Leg Waxing Fundraiser and the Christmas Concert to the IRC Cheer-ups and the From the Inside Discussions. What they all have in common is that they are events that we as a group feel would contribute to campus life in a fun and meaningful way. At the beginning of every semester we sit down as a group and plan what we will do over the coming months. Everyone has an opportunity to put their ideas forth, to find support for those ideas and to support the ideas of others.
We are always looking for new, committed members so if you're interested, please don't hesitate to join!

Contact: Taylor Hartrick, t.hartrick@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC, Room 209
Meeting time: every Thursday from 10:15-11:00
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=6380088066&ref=search&sid=516952882.3082604644..1

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Contact: Rosalyn Harrison, r.harrison@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: not available
Meeting time: not available
Membership fee: to be announced

BEaMS

In a rapidly shrinking world, companies are looking for people that understand the rest of the world as well as they understand their home countries. A perfect place where one can find such leaders is at Jacobs University. Furthermore, Jacobs University is a place of ideas, innovative students and professors are coming up with new concepts, technological as well as business-related. Be it a sandwich delivery service on campus or a spinoff company looking at producing cheap fuel using biotechnology. It is all happening right here.
The Business, Entrepreneurship and Management Society (BEaMS in short) recognizes this and also acknowledges the increasing interest among students to get increased exposure to the industry and world of business.

Contact: Mihai Cirlanaru, m.cirlanaru@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Conference Room
Meeting time: 20:30, twice a month
Membership fee: 8 Euros
Website: http://www.beamsociety.org/

Comedy Sportz Club

The Comedy Sportz Club provides a platform for comical, improvised theatre that is presented in a competition between two teams. Both of them strive for the audience's applause in order to score points. The name of Comedy Sportz derives not only from the athletic appearance of the game, but also from a spirit of fairness (i.e. the boundaries of humour are defined by the audience's and opponent's dignity-which can be flexible at times). The general goal of this club is to entertain both members and audience in a refreshing and involving way (suggestions by the audience are vital to the games). If you are interested in either shows or joining the club, feel free to contact us.

Contact: Rasche, Maximilian Martin, m.rasche@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Martial Arts Room/ Theater Space
Meeting time: 13:00-14:00 / 15:00-17:00
Membership fee: no fee

Cult screen society

The club aims at raising general awareness regarding non-mainstream filmed media footages, including, but not limited to, artistically and independent movies, documentaries and advertising clips. During the club meetings, we will gather to present, screen and discuss films of the aforementioned type, corresponding to a certain theme that will be determined every week. The topics will be challenging and excited at the same time, encouraging a border perspective and understanding of diversity in cultural and artistic cinematographically movements. We are open to encourage professors from the Humanities and Language departments to contribute by presenting relevant material and moderating discussions based on it.

Contact: Stefania Dumbrava (s.dumbrava@jacobs-university.de; Anca Dumitrache a.dumitrache@jacobs-university.de )
Meeting place: C3 Multimedia Room/ SAC
Meeting time: 7pm, Friday
Membership fee: no fee

Debating Society

Debating has been called the 'Art of Persuasion', and puts to the test the ability of the participants to develop and refute arguments to support a certain position, and eventually to persuade the judges and audience.
There are various styles that one can choose to debate in. The Jacobs University Bremen Debating Society runs most of its debates in British Parliamentary Style (BPS), with four teams debating at the same time.

Contact: Salomon Theinert, s.theinert@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC Room, Krupp, Mercator, College 3, Nordmetall
Meeting time: n/a
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://www.jacobs-debating.org/

Engineering Society

The Engineering Society is an organization founded by the cooperation between students and faculty at Jacobs University. It aims to do what you ask.One of our goal is to invite Companies on campus in coordination with CSC and to take students to different companies to give them hands-on knowledge. In this regards, we already have started rolling the train and hopefully will be taking students to visit some company by the end of this month. We also do bi-weekly presentation to foster awareness about fundamental and cutting-edge technological innovations. We try to integrate as many majors from Jacobs university here as we can.

Most importantly, we have established ourselves as a branch of IEEE and as such we participate in regional and international competitions.

Contact: Mussa Kiroga, m.kiroga@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: n/a
Meeting time: n/a
Membership fee: to be announced

Environmental Club

The Environmental Club seeks to increase environmental awareness on campus and to inspire students to take individual action. The group aims to regularly inform the Jacobs community on issues of current environmental concern, to foster environmental discussions, and to provide the means and access to information on environmental protection, policies, and sustainable options. Current projects include a focus on water and energy and involve displaying the current consumption statistics of the university. Additionally, the club will work with the initiative Jacobs Goes Green, cooperating on projects like the Green Tip of the Week. Finally, the club endeavors to make an association with organizations such as NABU, BUND, and Greenpeace, to participate in their activities, and for their support in campus projects.
The goal of the Environmental Club is to help Jacobs University become a more sustainable campus and a home to a more environment friendly and aware community.

Contact: Franziska (f.landes@jacobs-university.de), Linda (l.avena@jacobs-university.de) or Trevor (t.sloughter@jacobs-university.de).
Meeting place: Mercator common room
Meeting time: Tuesdays at 21:30
Membership fee: no fee
Website: https://teamwork.jacobs-university.de/confluence/display/ENV/Jacobs+Environmental+Club

J-Cappella (Jacobs University Choir)

The Choir was established in Fall Semester 2007, building on a student choir that existed since 2004, and has grown in the last one and a half years both in number of members and performances as well as in quality. Rucsandra Popescu, a professional composer and choir conductor, has been the musical director of J-Cappella since November 2008. She has created a joyful atmosphere that inspired everybody who likes to sing from all groups of the university - admin, faculty, staff, volunteers, and students.
In the past years we performed at many occasions on-campus, for example the annual openning ceremonies, the graduation ceremony, at our own Spring and Christmas concerts and many other events. However we also have had major appearance off-campus, like our performance on the 2nd of November 2008, at "Vokal Lokal" in the city library of Bremen, or on November 9th 2009 at "Sichtweisen" in the Glocke, alongside multiple performances at Christmas markets in Bremen-Nord and downtown. Currently we are rehearsing Beethoven's 9th symphony which we will perform on the 30th of January 2010, again in the Glocke together with the Philarmony of the Nations and the Brahms Chor of Hochschule Bremen.

Contact: Martin Noack, m.noack@jacobs-university.de
Meeting time: Monday 19:15–20:45, weekly
Membership fee: no fee
Website: https://teamwork.jacobs-university.de:8443/confluence/display/jacobschoir/Jacobs+University+Choir

Investment Club

Established in 2003, the Jacobs University Investment Club aims at providing theoretical and practical knowledge in finance, with particular focus on Investment Banking, to undergraduate and graduate students at Jacobs University Bremen. The ultimate goal of the club is to help its members towards a successful future career either in Finance or Business. With its many active members, the club is currently one of the largest career-oriented clubs on campus.

We have developed a number of specialized activities both to expand our practical experience and to serve investors interested in Emerging Markets. The continuously successful Equity Research Projects have encouraged us to take up new challenges. Resulting from that, our current goal is to start a student investment fund, which would enable the club members to apply their equity research knowledge in making investment decisions. The first step in establishing such fund is to manage a virtual portfolio in 2009/2010 academic year.

Contact: Mindaugas Tijusas
Meeting place: West Hall 2
Meeting time: weekly, Sundays 15:00-17:00
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://www.jacobs-university.de/investmentclub/

IT Consulting

IT Consulting Club aims to promote collaboration between students with and IT related major or a special interest and background in the IT and consulting. We hoe to foster our team skills and presentation techniques. The club members will benefit from getting to know the state of art of the IT consulting field. The students will also get research experience and understanding of the mechanisms in the small and large scale IT industry.
There will also be opportunities to learn the best practices of the domain as for example the ones summarized in the ITSM and ITIL v3 guidelines.
The club will try to reunite enthusiasts and build a viable team which could offer its knowledge and expertise to others and embark on projects which would help make our world a better place to live.

Contact: Vitalie Patrinica, v.patrinica@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Conference Room 2, Nordmetall College
Meeting time: weekly, 7pm
Membership fee: no fee

Linux Club

The Linux Club will help students, especially those who are considering CS based majors (EECS, CS) and also those curious and eager to learn something new, to work with a stable, widely spread (servers) and free operating system. The club activities would be mainly composed of workshops and presentations where we will show anyone almost everything that is to know about Linux (ranging from installation guides to application usage support) and also discuss new developments in the field of open-source software (applications, trends, technologies).

Contact: Mihai Cirlanaru, m.cirlanaru@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Mercator Common Room
Meeting time: 20:00, twice a month
Membership fee: no fee

Literature and Arts Journal

The Literature and Arts Journal Club at Jacobs University Bremen encourages students to pursue their talents in creative writing and visual art. Everyone is welcome to attend the weekly meetings where students meet and discuss their works-in-progress over tea.

At the end of every semester, the editors of The Journal Club will compile a careful selection of promising works to be printed in a journal that is distributed to all Jacobs students and faculty. Any submitted works that are printable will be considered (any type of creative writing, fiction, non-fiction and any type of printable art, including drawings and photographs). The submission process is open to all Jacobs students, and every submitted work will be commented upon.

Contact: Benjamin Friedman, j.friedman@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Research II, Tea Room (48/49)
Meeting time: Wednesday 16:00
Membership fee: no fee

The Logistics Chain

The Logistics Chain was founded by the logistics students in 2007 as “classroom outside a classroom”, a place to put theories learned in class into practice.
Today, we are more than 50 members, one of the most active groups on campus and an official regional group of Bundesverein für Logistik. Today we have the following goals:
1. Learn outside the classroom. Put theory into practice.
2. Networking with logistics students from other universities
3. Promotion of our club members and our University to the business world
4. Cooperations with companies in research projects, events, visits, lectures

What do we do? Weekly meetings with presentations on news, internships, logistics innovations, the Annual Gathering of the Logistics Chain, site visits to companies, guest lectures, research projects for companies, internal projects: Benchmarking, mini-researches, Annual Deutscher Logistikkongress in Berlin..

Contact: Di Zhao, d.zhao@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Krupp College Office / SAC Room
Meeting time: Tuesdays
Membership fee: no fee

Movie Magic Club

The purpose of the Movie Magic Club is to gather together individuals who are interested in both classic and contemporary cinema. The club chooses movies that its members want to impose on the Jacobs community and screens them in a suitable environment, the Jacobs‘own cinema theatre, creating an experience as true to the traditions of cinema as commercial theatres off-campus.
Note: one does not have to be a member to enjoy the screenings, as they are open to everyone free of charge.

Contact: Steffen Wittek, s.wittek@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC 107
Meeting time: 20:00, monthly
Membership fee: no fee

Model United Nations Society

The Jacobs University Model United Nations Society is proud of being one of the largest societies represented on our campus. Our members vary in their degree of expertise, including students with a longer MUN career that started in high school and total beginners. Moreover, - thanks to the international character of the University - the society's members come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. This diversity in membership stimulates highly interesting and authentic debates.
The MUN Society at Jacobs sees its main task in providing its members with the tools for good diplomacy. These involve excellent rhetoric and presentation skills, a thorough understanding of the rules of procedure utilized at the United Nations, expertise in the method of resolution writing and, of course, a thorough knowledge of the countries represented.

Contact: Lukas Friedemann, l.friedemann@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: to be announced
Meeting time: Sundays and some other days announced in advance
Membership fee: no fee

Music Club

The Music Club provides rehearsal space and equipment to all its members (Jacobs University students, faculty, and staff) and gives them the opportunity to meet and form various music ensembles. Thus, it plays a central role in all university events which involve live music. At the club leaders' discretion, it also lends its musical instruments to club members for events on and off campus.

Contact: Ognyan Seizov, o.seizov@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Music Room
Meeting time: musician meet according to a schedule
Membership fee: 8 Euros
Website: http://teamwork.jacobs-university.de:8080/confluence/x/PoGGAg

Pottery Club

As our name suggests we make pottery. Not just cups and bowls, but anything our creative members can think of. From welcome-signs to alien-sculptures, from flowerpots to decorated boxes, everything is possible. Pottery involves more than creativity as many regular members, occasional guests and friends meet to distress from the hectic Jacobs life. Everyone is welcome to our sessions, be it beginners or advanced level clay-artists and of course once finished creating a piece one can take it home. Together with the pottery making tutorials we offer a unique experience of creativity while designing pots, figurines, and other objects.

Contact: Liudmila Tarabashkina, l.tarabashkina@jacobs-university.de and
Cvetomir Dimov, c.dimov@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC Room 108
Meeting time: n/a, once a week
Membership fee: 8 Euros

PR Club

The Public Relations Club aims to cater to students interested in advertising, social media, self-promoting and public relations, and to interested collaborators from the ranks of other student initiatives that have interesting ideas in need of a PR boost either on or off-campus.

We don't coexist, we cooperate.
We don't talk, we communicate.
We don't only act, we interact.

Contact: Radu Rovin, r.rovin@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: C3 Conference Room
Meeting time: 22:00, twice a month
Membership fee: no fee

Pulse of the World

At Pulse of the World, we aim to serve the Jacobs University community by informing, stimulating debate, promoting accountability and facilitating communication; and of course, to look and sound good doing it. We've been doing all that since 2004 and are only headed onwards and upwards from here!
We've been Jacobs University's only independent student-run news source since 2004. Currently inhabiting the virtual sphere at www.pulseoftheworld.com, we cover all aspects of life on campus, from special events to policy changes to student opinion. Keep an eye out for our upcoming print edition, giving all members of the university community another way to join the debate.

Contact: Jacobs Schweda
Meeting place: SAC 308
Meeting time: Tuesdays from 1900-2030 (executive board), Thursday from 1900-2030 (POTW members and public)
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://www.pulseoftheworld.com/

Radio Club

The Radio Club wants to foster mutual understanding between characters, that seem so different in their lifestyles and behavior, and yet, whose hearts may beat for the same dreams and interests.
Education, exchange, entertainment, escape from the routine - these principles serve as a guide for the Radio Club, to make this place a place of critical, enthusiastic, open-minded, revolutionary, music loving students.
We want to engage in real intercultural exchange via music and news coming from all the places our listeners come from.
A clear anti-racist and anti-discrimination position has to be inherent to all people directly involved in the Radio Club and to works produced and broadcast within the club.
We want to inspire, engage in debates and foster engagement in discussions.
The Radio Club will hold regular meetings on Sundays, 10 pm in Mercator College Office Conference Room or the Radio Room. We look forward to the change we can make.

Contact: Eva Cappuccilli, e.cappuccilli@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC 312
Meeting time: every Sunday
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://pledarigrond.wordpress.com/

Rotaract Club

Rotaract Club is the student branch of the Rotary International. We are a community service club which aims at helping in several social projects with local kindergarten (English for Kids and English for Parents), organize annual Blood Drive in the cooperation with the Red Cross. We work hand in hand with our parent Rotary Club Bremen-Vegesack. Rotaract Club of Jacobs University is a partner with Rotaract Clubs in Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Lithuania.
Next to our social projects, we aim at educating future leaders. Some leadership projects and conferences were organized together with the Entrepreneurship organization in Lithuania Profat.

Contact: Justas Balciunas, j.balciunas@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: SAC 201
Meeting time: twice a month
Membership fee: no fee
Website: http://rotaract-jacobs-university.weebly.com/

UNICEF-club

Our UNICEF-club serves to raise awareness of the difficult situations kids face around the globe everyday. We want that people remember that for some of them life is a real struggle and that they need support. If they can’t get it from whom they should get it, well, we think we could give it a try.
We can’t work wonders, but what we can do is to inform, support UNICEF actions through fund-raising and to bring some happiness to children living under poor conditions in Germany.

„Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.“ (Pamela Glenconner)

Contact: Lisa Ritschel, l.ritschel@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: Mercator Common Room
Meeting time: weekly
Membership fee: no fee

Yearbook club

The main aspirations and goals of the yearbook club is to create a yearbook for every academic year. This includes highlighting parties, events, clubs, sports, organizations and various other activities that students do on campus and around campus. This year the yearbook club strives to make the yearbook better than ever by including ALL STUDENTS at the university and recreating the image of the yearbook as a whole. If you are creative and willing to put in the effort, the yearbook club is for you.

Contact: Maggie Green, m.green@jacobs-university.de
Meeting place: C3 QSA
Meeting time: 22:00, Wednesdays, 3 times a month
Membership fee: no fee