Get the API key

We start the voyage here: https://kisski.gwdg.de/en/leistungen/2-02-llm-service/

Click book:

Continue:

Select the SSO option:

Find University of Bremen and select it:

You are then redirected to the University of Bremen Identity Management:

Some fine-print to understand:

Back to the request form: You need to fill out everything!!!

More to click and fill out. For the why, I wrote that I need the API Key to connect VS Code with the LLM models.

First you get an automatic message. After a bit longer you will get the API key in a second email.

Test your API key:

from openai import OpenAI

# API configuration
api_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"  # Replace with your API key
base_url = "https://chat-ai.academiccloud.de/v1"

# Start OpenAI client
client = OpenAI(api_key=api_key, base_url=base_url)

# List all available models
models = client.models.list()

# Print all models
for model in models:
    print(model.id)
print()

The result is:

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct
openai-gpt-oss-120b
gemma-3-27b-it
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507
qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507
qwen3-32b
qwen3-235b-a22b
llama-3.3-70b-instruct
qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct
medgemma-27b-it
qwq-32b
deepseek-r1
deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b
mistral-large-instruct
qwen2.5-coder-32b-instruct
internvl2.5-8b
teuken-7b-instruct-research
codestral-22b
llama-3.1-sauerkrautlm-70b-instruct
meta-llama-3.1-8b-rag
qwen2.5-omni-7b