Freie Universität Berlin was first recognized as a German university of excellence in 2007 in a competition held by the federal and state governments to promote research at German universities. The university was able to defend this title in June 2012 with its development concept “Veritas – Iustitia – Libertas. International Network University.” Since 2019 Freie Universität Berlin has been funded as part of the excellence consortium Berlin University Alliance within the Excellence Strategy competition of the German federal and state governments. The university has three clusters of excellence and is involved in another cluster as a co-applicant.
