The rich expertise of Berlin's scientific landscape

Berlin is a unique science location: Berlin universities offer more than 1,000 different degree programs, in which rund about 192 000 students conduct research. About 17% of them come from abroad in to get to know the capital’s open research atmosphere. The promising cooperations between universities, non-university research institutions, and technology centers makes Berlin a hotspot for business and science.

Berlin sciences' status of excellence

Graduate schools, clusters of excellence, and future concepts: The three funding lines of the Excellence Initiative aim equally at funding young scientists as well as top-level research. 

Berlin is the most successful Federal State when it comes to attracting graduate schools and clusters of excellence. In July 2019 Berlin University Alliance was awarded the title University of Excellence. An international panel of experts selected the alliance of Technische Universität Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität – along with Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, for funding within the framework of the German Excellence Strategy (ExStra) of the German federal and state governments. A permanent grant of 15 to 28 million euros per year. Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin also belong to the eleven German universities selected to receive funding in the Excellence Initiative.

Crucial for the success of the capital are cooperations: The network between the various scientific institutions is strengthened, for example, by the Berlin Institute for Applied Research (IFAF) or Berlin University Alliance. The funding of around 80 million euros underlines the success of the Berlin universities, while on the other hand it further enhances the excellence of the science location. The 50 professorships in the field of digital transformation announced at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) alone show that Berlin is further expanding its position as Europe’s science metropolis.

Research focus in Berlin: The German Center of Digitization

Berlin also offers new majors and exciting studies around in the field of digitization:

• “Humanoid Robotics" degree program – The Beuth University of Applied Sciences Berlin is planning the nation’s first major of its kind in 2018.
• Digital Transformation in the Finance Sector – Digitization is also playing an increasingly important role in financing strategies.

Medical research in Berlin - A dynamic healthcare location

Berlin - a leading international location in the field of health economy

HealthCapital: The cluster of the health economy supports the promotion of Berlin as one of the leading locations in the fields of healthcare and life sciences.

Big Data, Digital Health, and Telemedicine: The research focus of the innovative pharmaceutical, medtech, and biotech companies, which are in a network with the many medical institutions in the city and make the health care Berlin so attractive.

Humanities and Social Sciences - Berlin attracts industry experts from all over the world

The Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universität Berlin

The campus of the Freie Universität in Dahlem houses seven institutes – from the Institute of Theater Studies to the Institute for Cultural and Media Management. It also offers the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, the Dahlem Humanities Center, as well as other research centers and libraries, such as the “The Berlin Brain” philological library, which contains more than 750,000 media.

Future-oriented research center - Mathematical sciences in Berlin