The Berlin University Alliance is a consortium of three universities and one hospital in
Berlin
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: the
Free University of Berlin
The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...
, the
Humboldt University of Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative o ...
, the
Technical University of Berlin
The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...
, and the
Charité – Berlin University of Medicine.
Partner universities of the Berlin University Alliance, for instance the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin, are highly ranked within Germany and abroad, with both of the aforementioned given the status of Germany's
Universities of Excellence - the German Ivy League of public institutions.
In 2019 the Alliance has won funding of 24 million euros per annum in the Universities of Excellence funding line of the
Excellence Strategy for its future concept ‘Crossing Boundaries toward an Integrated Research Environment’.
In the Excellence Strategy research competition run by the German federal and state governments, the following seven Clusters of Excellence of the Alliance have been approved. As of 2019, the
interdisciplinary research
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combination of multiple academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project). It draws knowledge from several other fields like sociology, anthropology, psychology, ec ...
projects are each being funded in the Clusters of Excellence funding line for seven years with up to ten million euros per annum.
* MATH+: The Berlin Mathematics Research Center
* Matters of Activity: Image Space Material – A new culture of material
* NeuroCure – New perspectives in the therapy of neurological diseases
* SCIoI – Science of Intelligence – Learning to understand intelligence
* Scripts – Global challenges for liberal democracy as a model of organization
* Temporal Communities – A global perspective on literature
*
Unifying Systems in Catalysis
The Cluster of Excellence Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) is an interdisciplinary research network funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of the federal and state excellence strategy of Germany (Exzellenzstrategie). ...
(UniSysCat) – Sustainability needs catalysis research
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
research institutes:
* The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), a German national competence center for
AI research
* The Alliance is one of the German national high performance computing locations
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