The Continuing Education Center is the central service institution for continuing and professional education at Freie Universität Berlin. It offers a broad spectrum of professional and continuing education courses and events aimed at various target groups.

For researchers and junior scholars and scientists, the center offers courses and events that focus in particular on key qualifications and on developing personal skills. The range of topics offered includes rhetoric and public speaking, academic writing and speaking, giving presentations in English, building an academic profile, professional academic applications, and self-presentation.

Alongside a broad-based qualification program for participants in DRS doctoral programs, Dahlem Research School also offers further qualification opportunities for postdocs. Any postdoc who works at one of the DRS graduate schools or research training groups as a researcher is eligible to participate. Offerings include courses and workshops on Transferable Skills and on skills needed to teach at the university level.

The Berlin Center for Higher Education Instruction (Berliner Zentrum für Hochschullehre, BZHL) offers academic staff a broad-based, systematic way of obtaining skills and qualifications on the topics of teaching and learning. The BZHL is sponsored by all of the state-operated higher education institutions in the state of Berlin. Its joint office is hosted by Technische Universität Berlin.

The Berlin University for Professional Studies (Deutsche Universität für Weiterbildung, DUW) offers university-level continuing education courses for working professionals. Alongside government-accredited master’s degree programs, the university also offers continuing education certificate programs that allow participants to develop and refine their management skills at an academic level. Freie Universität Berlin and the Klett Group participate in the DUW.

The Language Center of Freie Universität Berlin (Sprachenzentrum), one of the university’s central institutions, offers a broad range of foreign language courses. It is responsible for practical language activities in many academic programs and in general career preparation (ABV) courses.