Freie Universität Berlin is involved in numerous research alliances and is successful in attracting individual projects that receive third-party funding, groups of junior scholars and scientists and scholarly and academic awards.

Initiative for Excellence Competition

Cluster of Excellence

• Applicant: 4 (2 together with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin)

Graduate Schools

• Spokesperson: 4
• Spokesperson together with:
  
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin: 1
  • Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 2
• Participation: 2

Current Programmes: German Research Foundation (DFG)

Collaborative Reseach Centers

• Spokesperson: 11 (including TRR: 4)
• Participation: 15 (including TRR: 5)
• Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 6 (including TRR: 3)

Research Units

• Spokesperson: 6 (including 1 College Research Unit)
• Participation: 18
• Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 3

Priority Programmes

• Spokesperson: 1
• Participation: 33

Research Training Groups

• Spokesperson: 4
• Participation: 6
• Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 3

Einstein Foundation: Einstein Centers

• 5

Junior Research Groups

• Federal Ministry of Education and Research: 3
• Emmy-Noether-Program of German Research Foundation: 6
• Heisenberg-Program of German Research Foundation: 4 Heisenberg Professorships
• Freigeist-Fellowship of Volkswagen Stiftung: 5
• Lichtenberg-Professorship of Volkswagen Stiftung: 1

Academic Awards

• Nobel Prize: 5
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize: 19
• Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation: 7
• European Research Council (ERC): since 2008 65 Grants (3 with participation)
  • ERC-Starting Grant: 24
  • ERC-Consolidator Grant: 17
  • ERC-Advanced Grant: 19
  • Participation in ERC-Advanced Grant: 3
  • ERC-Proof of Concept: 3
• Alexander von Humboldt Professorship:
  International Prize for Research in Germany: 1
• Sofja Kovalevskaja-Program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: 3