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b.r.m. IT & Aerospace and Drone Days from Bremen is the annual winner of "Motor of the North 2025"

Engine of the North — *Photo Izabela Mittwollen*

Bremen (September 11, 2025) - The Bremen-based company "b.r.m. IT & Aerospace GmbH" was awarded the title "Annual Winner Motor of the North 2025" yesterday evening in the Hanseatic city. Christian Meyer-Hammerström, Managing Director of Osterholzer Stadtwerke and spokesman for the Powerhouse jury, presented the award to company founder Harald Rossol and his nephew and Co-Managing Director Markus Rossol together with Bremen's Mayor Dr. Andreas Bovenschulte in front of around 120 invited guests at the Weser Stadium.

The company was recognized for its achievements in the development of a national control system for civilian unmanned aerial vehicles, the expansion of the Hatten airfield (Oldenburg district) into a national drone test laboratory and the organization of the "Drone Days" as an industry get-together with international appeal at the Hatten site. b.r.m. was nominated. IT & Aerospace was nominated by the District Administrator of Oldenburg, Dr. Christian Pundt. The company had previously been recognized as the local "Motor of the North" in the district of Oldenburg and thus qualified for the election as the annual winner, where it prevailed against nine competitors.

"With the Motor of the North Innovation Award, we want to recognize companies, institutions, clubs, associations and networks that are particularly innovative and future-oriented and thus advance the region," explained Sepp Thiele, member of the Managing Board of Powerhouse Nord. The assessment criteria are degree of innovation, regional impact, sustainability and future orientation, cooperation and networking as well as exemplary character.

"Motor des Nordens" is an innovation prize sponsored by the Powerhouse Nord regional alliance, which has been awarded in cooperation with the municipalities in the Ems-Elbe region since 2024. The prize is not endowed. Each spring, Powerhouse Nord invites the district administrators and mayors of the Ems-Elbe region to nominate their local "Engine of the North" to Powerhouse Nord. "Ten municipalities took part this year," reported Thiele. The local award winners were honored in their respective municipalities over the past few months. Bremen was chosen as the location for the award ceremony for the annual winner in late summer this year, after Wilhelmshaven in 2024.

Local winners and therefore in the running for the 2025 annual award were also:

Runden Group GmbH & Co. KG from Damme (Vechta district),
AG Reederei Norden-Frisia from Norderney (Aurich district),
Kronsdobben GmbH from Friedeburg-Etzel (Wittmund district),
SciReef GmbH from Wihelmshaven,
Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e.V. from Quakenbrück (Osnabrück district),
Hotel Peter from Wingst (Cuxhaven district),
DFDS Germany ApS & Co. KG from the city of Cuxhaven,
Climate Cooperation Fischereihafen from Bremerhaven and
POLARIS Raumfahrzeuge GmbH from Bremen.

The five-member jury received detailed dossiers with the corresponding project descriptions for each candidate. On the basis of these documents, the candidates were assessed by the jurors in the five categories mentioned on a scale of 1 to 10. This resulted in five numerical values for each candidate, which were added together to produce an overall result. The candidate with the highest score is the winner.

In addition to Christian Meyer-Hammerström, the jury includes:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Weisensee, President of the Jade University of Applied Sciences Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth,
Tanja-Vera Asmussen, Co-Chairwoman of Powerhouse Nord e.V. and Deputy Chairwoman of the Management Board of Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg,
Karin Beckmann, State Commissioner for the district of Lüneburg and Head of the Lower Saxony Office for Regional Development, and

Prof. Thomas Albert, Director of the Musikfest Bremen gGmbH