Freie Universität Berlin hosted the following priority programmes:

• SPP 1000 Theatricality - Theater as a Cultural Model in Cultural Studies (1996 - 2006)
• SPP 1051 High-field EPR in Biology, Chemistry and Physics (1998 - 2005)
• SPP 1132 Proteolysis in Prokaryotes: Protein Quality Control and Regulatory Principle (2002 - 2008)
• SPP 1276: Multiple-Scales Asymptotics in (Geophysical) Fluid Mechanics (2007 - 2014)