This Creative Unit is seen as a move in a long-term strategic plan: it is to provide the foundation for an ongoing and developing raft of research actions involving the core participants and a growing network of further collaborators. The research actions range across third-party funding applications, proposals for further research-based teaching and structural extensions to our study programmes. The scientific milestones of the creative unit provide the contents for these research proposals and study initiatives, as well as providing the concrete basis for developing collaborations further. An overview of the currently envisaged development of research proposals supported by the research to be kick-started within the Creative Unit has been outlined below:

A DFG-Graduiertenkolleg has been discussed as a cooperation between FB10 and FB9 (proposers: Bateman, Febel, Pauleit) with the working title: ``Film: Text und Köperlichkeit'' --- this would combine in a form that is completely new in Germany the twin approaches to film of textuality and embodiment-based aesthetics. This would build on the proposers' experiences in other structured doctoral programmes, including the FB10-internal university-funded doctoral group Textuality of Film . The existence of a Creative Unit would provide a strong environment from which to make such a proposal, demonstrating both the university's commitment and the cooperation track-record of the proposers.

Plans for the preparation for a DFG SPP on the topics of ``Spatial Cognition, Design, and Technology'' are being made (Bhatt, Hoelscher, Schlieder, Freksa); one of the core topics of this planned SPP programme will focus on the topics of cognitive narrative experience of designers and people in built-up spatial environments. A preliminary meeting for the potential participants in the planned SPP has been planned for Mar 10-11 2014 at the University of Bremen.

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The Creative Unit is seen as an essentially outward-looking research structure: it will seek to provide the basis for a large-scale funding application such as, minimally, a DFG research group or, preferably, a Collaborative Research Center (SFB) in the area. Particularly for the latter it is essential to involve other relevant research groups of the university in order to demonstrate both excellence and critical mass; establishing such a foundation is seen as a principal organisational goal of the strategy being pursued with this Creative Unit. Potential for growth within the university is considerable, including, for example, cooperation with fMRI and other brain studies (Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Hermann, ZKW), with `science and literature' (Prof. Dr. Norbert Schaffeld, FB10), with the philosophy of film and media (Prof. Dr. Georg Mohr, FB9), and with history and film (Prof. Dr. Delia Gonzalez, FB8).