Research successes in figures
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: 10 (including TRR: 3)
- Participation: 13 (including TRR: 4)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 6 (including TRR: 3)
Research Units
- Spokesperson: 8 (including 2 College Research Units)
- Participation: 21
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 1
Priority Programmes
- Spokesperson: 1
- Participation: 30
Research Training Groups
- Spokesperson: 6
- Participation: 7
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin: 3
Einstein Foundation: Einstein Centers
- 5
Junior Research Groups
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research: 4
- Emmy-Noether-Program of German Research Foundation: 9
- Heisenberg-Program of German Research Foundation: 9 (including 4 Heisenberg Professorship and 5 Heisenberg Fellowships)
- 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 57 Grants (3 with participation)
- ERC-Starting Grant: 24
- ERC-Consolidator Grant: 14
- ERC-Advanced Grant: 18
- Participation in ERC-Advanced Grant: 3
- ERC-Proof of Concept: 2
- Alexander von Humboldt Professorship:
International Prize for Research in Germany: 1 - Sofja Kovalevskaja-Program of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: 3