Berlin University Alliance

The Berlin University Alliance is a consortium of three universities and one hospital in Berlin: the Free University of Berlin,[1] the Humboldt University of Berlin,[2] the Technical University of Berlin,[3] and the Charité – Berlin University of Medicine.[4] The four partners joined forces to further develop Berlin as a research hub with international drawing power.[5]

Berlin University Alliance
Formation21 February 2018 (2018-02-21)
Location
Websitewww.berlin-university-alliance.de

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’.[6][7]

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.[8] As of 2019, the interdisciplinary research projects are each being funded in the Clusters of Excellence funding line for seven years with up to ten million euros per annum.[9]

  • MATH+: The Berlin Mathematics Research Center[10]
  • Matters of Activity: Image Space Material – A new culture of material[11]
  • NeuroCure – New perspectives in the therapy of neurological diseases[12]
  • SCIoI – Science of Intelligence – Learning to understand intelligence[13]
  • Scripts – Global challenges for liberal democracy as a model of organization[14]
  • Temporal Communities – A global perspective on literature[15]
  • Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) – Sustainability needs catalysis research[16]


Artificial intelligence research institutes:

  • The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD),[17] the largest BMBF Competence Center for Machine Learning[18]
  • The Alliance is one of the German National High Performance Computing locations[19]

The capital's universities are in particular demand among researchers from abroad. Partner universities of the Berlin University Alliance fill top positions in latest Humboldt Foundation Rankings.[20]

References
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  2. "Humboldt University of Berlin participates in Excellence Strategy". HU Berlin. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  3. "Technical University of Berlin participates in Excellence Strategy". TU Berlin. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. "Charité participates in Excellence Strategy". Charité Berlin. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  5. "Who we are". Berlin University Alliance. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  6. "Final decisions in the German Excellence Strategy". Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  7. "Exzellenz" (in German). Federal state of Berlin. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  8. "Excellence Strategy". Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  9. "Clusters of Excellence". Berlin University Alliance. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  10. "MATH+: The Berlin Mathematics Research Center". Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  11. "Matters of Activity: Image Space Material". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  12. "NeuroCure". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  13. "Science of Intelligence". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  14. "SCRIPTS". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  15. "Temporal Communities". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  16. "Unifying Systems in Catalysis". Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  17. "BIFOLD". Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  18. "Millionenförderung von Bund und Land für KI-Leuchtturm in Berlin" (in German). Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany). Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  19. "Förderung von acht Rechenzentren im Rahmen des Nationalen Hochleistungsrechnens beschlossen" (PDF) (in German). Gemeinsame Wissenschaftskonferenz (GWK). Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  20. "Humboldt Rankings: These German universities are popular among researchers from abroad". Humboldt Foundation. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
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