We inspire professors and strengthen their leadership skills—fostering outstanding research and a culture of mutual respect. As a strategic institution of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin Leadership Academy contributes its expertise to a shared understanding of leadership within the Berlin University Alliance.

With our evidence-based, tailor-made portfolio of leadership programs, we spark new ideas, create space for reflection, and give participants the chance to learn with—and from—one another. In doing so, we nurture a forward-looking network of researchers across the Berlin-Brandenburg science region.

The BLA pursues four interrelated goals:

1. it strengthens the leadership competencies of decision-makers at the partner institutions; 
2. it fosters networking among leaders across the Alliance; 
3. it pools the partners’ resources in leadership development, and 
4. promotes the emergence of a shared understanding of leadership within the Alliance. 

The BLA’s offers are aimed primarily at advanced academic leaders and experienced managers in research administration—especially professors, senior researchers, research managers, deans, senior administrative executives with direct Alliance responsibilities, and members of the executive boards and governing bodies of the Alliance.

On the following pages, you can learn more about us:

• What sets us apart
• Our structure
• Our Team