Sharing research infrastructure is one of the goals of the Berlin University Alliance. To this end a seed funding call was issued for projects that support the expansion of existing research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences or to establish new ones. The aim is to increase the potential for cross-institutional research. Six projects were chosen for the seed funding with up to 50,000 euros per project. Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin are involved in three of the projects. All three are being set up together with Humboldt-Universität:

Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN): Establishing a digital platform for China knowledge exchange — fostering teaching and research collaborations

• Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka, Freie Universität Berlin

Proposed infrastructure: interactive digital platform for sharing knowledge and material among BUA partners and the wider public

Theater of Images. Studies on Image Based Teaching in Theater Studies and Art History (ToI)

• Dr. Peter Jammerthal, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Jan Lazardzig, Freie Universität Berlin
• Dr. Georg Schelbert, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Proposed infrastructure: joint interdisciplinary research project and platform to assess and make available, for several purposes, archival material from various sources

ORGANON terminology toolbox – eine digitale Plattform für interdisziplinär relevante Begriffe (OrgaTerm)

• PD Dr. Werner Kogge, Freie Universität Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Jan Slaby, Freie Universität Berlin

Proposed infrastructure: interactive online platform aiming at facilitating the terminology-related work of research collaborations and networks