Excellence Strategy of the Federal Government and States
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In order to further strengthen top-level university research, the federal and state governments in Germany set up a successor program to the Excellence Initiative (2005 through 2017): the Excellence Strategy. The German Excellence Strategy is an open-ended program to promote outstanding research clusters and universities.
It is initially endowed with a total of 533 million euros annually. Of this money, 75 percent comes from the federal government and 25 percent from the states where the universities are located. Universities and associations of universities in Germany are eligible to apply within the Excellence Strategy. The German Research Foundation and the German Council of Science and Humanities (only in German) carry out the academic assessment and selection process.
© Janine Rülicke-Ahrens
In September 2018, TU Berlin achieved major success in the first round of the Excellence Strategy with three Clusters of Excellence achieved either as sole applicant or as applicant university as part of a consortium proposal.
Beginning 2019, the three interdisciplinary research projects “Unifying Systems in Catalysis” (UniSysCat), “Science of Intelligence” (SCIoI), and “MATH+” will be funded for a period of seven years with up to ten million euros annually. It will then be decided by means of a renewal proposal whether to extend funding for a further seven years.
Technische Universität Berlin is also part of the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity: Image Space Material" hosted by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Further information
Learn more about TU Berlin's Clusters of Excellence.
The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) – Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin – was the only alliance to win the 2019 Excellence Strategy competition of the German state and federal governments.
Its goal is to develop Berlin as an integrated research hub and Europe’s leading center of science. To this end, the BUA has set itself five major objectives and also established three overarching cross-cutting themes.
The alliance receives up to 28 million euros annually from the German government and the state of Berlin, subject to a positive review every seven years.
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Further information
Learn more about the University Consortia of Excellence "Berlin University Alliance"