Freie Universität Berlin hosted the following research training groups:

• GRK 101 Comparison of the Society in Historical, Sociological and Anthropological Perspective (1992 - 2001)
• GRK 120 Signalling Cascades in Living Systems (1998 - 2003)
• GRK 276 Signal Recognition and Transduction (1996 - 2005)
• GRK 406 The Staging of the Body (1997 - 2006)
• GRK 429 Neuropsychiatry and Psychology: Psychic Potentials and Limits in Old Age (1998 - 2007)
• GRK 588 European Research Training Group: Combinatorics, Geometry and Computation (2000 - 2005)
• GRK 788 Hydrogen Bonding and Hydrogen Transfer (2002 - 2007)
• GRK 865 Mechanisms of Vasoregulation (2003 - 2007)
• GRK 1012 Organizational Paths (2005 - 2014)
• International GRK 1369: InterArt / Interart Studies (2006-2015)
• International GRK 1571: Entre Espacios - Movimientos, Actores y Representaciones de la Globalizacion / Between spaces. Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalization (2009 - 2018)
• GRK 1582 Fluorine as a Key Element. Discovering Innovative Synthetic Concepts to Generate Novel Molecules with Unique Properties (2009 - 2018)

• International GRK 1673 Functional Molecular Infection Epidemiology (2010 - 2015)

• GRK 2046: Parasite Infections: From Experimental Models to Natural Systems (2015 - 2024)

• GRK 2434: Facets of complexity (2018 - 2024)