Freie Universität Berlin

Freie Universität Berlin is one of the universities of excellence in Germany: As part of the Berlin University Alliance, it has been permanently funded since 2019 in the “Excellence Strategy”, the new edition of the competition to promote top-level research. Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin as well as Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – have joined forces in the Berlin network. As one of six universities nationwide, Freie Universität had already been recognized as an excellent university in both rounds of the previous “Excellence Initiative” competition. In 2018, four new Clusters of Excellence were approved for a term of seven years. Recognized research rankings (THE / DFG) confirm the leading position of Freie Universität – especially in the humanities and social sciences.