NeuroCure - Comprehensive Approaches to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders – from Mechanisms to Interventions
(2007 - 2032)

Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as universities with their joint medical faculty Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Temporal Communities - Doing Literature in a Global Perspective
(2019 - 2025)

Spokespersons: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anne Eusterschulte (Philosophy) and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andrew James Johnston (English Literature)
Applicant university: Freie Universität Berlin

Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) – Global Challenges for the Model of Liberal Democracy and Market Economy
(2019 - 2032)

Spokespersons: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin), Dr. Isabel Winnwa (Executive Director), Dr. Susanne Fuchs (seconded)
Applicant university: Freie Universität Berlin

MATH+ How Berlin Mathematics is Shaping the Future
(2019 - 2032)

Spokespersons: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claudia Schillings (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Andrea Walther (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pokutta (Technische Universität Berlin and Zuse-Institute Berlin)
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin

ImmunoPreCept: Exploring the Health-Disease Bifurcation for Cell-based Molecular Prevention and Interceptive Medicine
(2026 - 2032)

Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Britta Siegmund, Prof. Dr. Andreas Diefenbach (beide Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky (Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekular Medizin)
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as universities with their joint medical faculty Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Center for Chiral Electronics (CCE)
(2026 - 2032)

Spokespersons: Prof. Dr. Georg Woltersdorf (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Univ.-Prof. Dr. Katharina Franke (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Christoph Strunk (Universität Regensburg)
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Universität Regensburg