page_title: University of Bern
section_title: Interdisciplinary centres
hierarchical_section_title: University of Bern / Structure / Interdisciplinary centres
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Mit Hilfe von Eisbohrkernen rekonstruiert die Abteilung für Klima- und Umweltphysik am Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) das Klima der letzten 800'000 Jahre, insbesondere die Konzentrationen der Treibhausgase Kohlenstoffdioxid, Methan und Lachgas.
context_page_description: The University of Bern is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. It is regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern. It is a comprehensive university offering a broad choice of courses and programs in eight faculties and some 150 institutes. With around 18,576 students, the University of Bern is the third biggest University in Switzerland.
context_section_description: The university has defined specific focuses of research as strategic and has established interdisciplinary centres of excellence for these that pursue an interdisciplinary approach to research and teaching. For example, the biomedical engineering programmes of the Artificial Organ (ARTORG) Center for Biomedical Engineering Research and the Public Management and Policy programme of the Center of Competence for Public Management (CCPM).
  There are 11 interdisciplinary centres at the University of Berne:
  Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics
  ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research
  Bern Center for Precision Medicine (BCPM)
  Centre for Development and Environment (CDE)
  Center for Global Studies (CGS)
  Center for Regional Economic Development CRED
  Center for Space and Habitability (CSH)
  Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS)
  Center of Competence for Public Management
  Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies
  Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR)
  World Trade Institute (WTI)
  A number of the University's centers of excellence focus on the challenges of sustainability. The Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) manages research programmes in the field of sustainable development, focusing on its particular areas of expertise in integrated regional development and natural resource management. The World Trade Institute (WTI) manages research, education, and outreach focused on global economic governance, including global sustainability policy. The Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) is at the forefront of international research on climate science and policy, and its researchers have participated as co-chair, coordinating lead authors or lead authors in all the assessment reports so far published by the IPCC.
  The Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) leads the European CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) project. CHEOPS is a planned European space telescope for the study of the formation of extrasolar planets, with a launch window in October to November 2019.
  Several of the centers offer specialized graduate programmes. For example: the biomedical engineering programmes of the Artificial Organ (ARTORG) Center for Biomedical Engineering Research; the Public Management and Policy programme of the Center of Competence for Public Management (CCPM); the WTI (offering MAS, LLM, and PhD programs in international economics and economic law); and the OCCR graduate school (offersing an MSc and a PhD program in Climate Sciences, as well as a Swiss Climate Summer School).
caption: Ice core of the OCCR for climate reconstruction, 2006
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