About Freie Universität
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Freie Universität Berlin performed successfully three times in the German government’s Excellence competition for universities. As a result of the latest competition, the German Excellence Strategy, the university will receive long-term funding beginning in 2019 as part of the Berlin University Alliance, which is made up of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
The main features of Freie Universität’s research activities include the broad variety of global academic and scientific cooperation arrangements in place as part of alliance projects and networks with other entities active in research, alongside the university’s innovative support concepts for junior scholars and scientists and the scope of the external funding the university raises. The various areas of focus in the research conducted at Freie Universität are organized into various structures, including interdisciplinary focus areas, excellence clusters, collaborative research centers, and research centers.
Freie Universität is a full-spectrum university, comprising eleven departments and four Central Institutes that together offer more than 150 different academic programs in a broad range of disciplines. Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the joint medical school of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Dahlem Research School (DRS) at Freie Universität Berlin offers the framework encompassing a range of outstanding structured doctoral programs.
Freie Universität owes its founding, in 1948, to international support, and international impulses have shaped the university’s research activities and student life ever since. Today, Freie Universität maintains roughly 100 partnerships at the university-wide level, along with about 330 university partnerships within the Erasmus academic exchange network and ca. 45 institute partnerships, forming a wide-ranging and tight-knit global network.
On its web pages, Freie Universität provides comprehensive information on the following subjects:
Research at Freie Universität
- Research
- Research Funding
- Visiting Scholars
- Dahlem Research School
- Center for Research Strategy
- Support for Junior Researchers
- Ph.D. Studies
Latin American Studies
- Institute for Latin American Studies
- Forschungszentrum Brasilien (Center of Research Brasil)
- desiguAldades.net
- Master of Arts (M.A.) in Interdisciplinary Latin America Studies Program
- International Research Training Group “Temporalities of Future”
Academic Programs at Freie Universität
- Undergraduate Programs (in German)
- Master's Degree Programs
- Master’s Degree Programs Taught in Engish
- International Degree Programs