The research done at Freie Universität Berlin is shaped by various factors, including deliberate pooling of skills and expertise within strategic networks, which the university initiates in cooperation with regional, national, and international partners from academia and the research sector, the business sector, the political sphere, and the wider society. Scholars and scientists work together on an interdisciplinary basis to study forward-looking global issues that affect society.
The DFG supports cooperative research, and most especially interdisciplinary research, as part of coordinated programs. Freie Universität Berlin is represented in many of these programs, either hosting them itself or as a participating university.
Scientific and scholarly centers and interdisciplinary research institutions at Freie Universität Berlin
Interdisciplinary research takes place in a number of institutions at the university, including the Einstein Centers, which the Einstein Foundation Berlin has been supporting at a high international level since 2009.
Cooperative research with institutions not affiliated with the university
Max Planck Institutes, Fraunhofer institutions, the Leibniz Association, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres: Freie Universität Berlin works with these and other major research associations within research projects.
Endowed professorships and special program professorships supported by various institutions help to advance the cultivation of areas of focus in research activities at Freie Universität Berlin. Special professorships enable close connections between research institutions not affiliated with the university and those within it.
