2025
Panel discussion on reforms to academic career paths and personnel structures to kick off the new ProFiL Programme round
With its successful ProFiL Programme, the Berlin University Alliance is increasing the proportion of women in professorial positions in Germany and internationally. To kick off the new program round, the president of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal, will discuss the topic “Reform of Career Paths and Staffing Structures in Academia: Scopes for Action between Excellence Requirements and Budget Cuts.” The discussion on July 8, 2025, in the Senate Hall of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, will be in German, to be simultaneously translated into English.
Jun 30, 2025
Angela Dziedzom Akorsu is the 2025 Audre Lorde Visiting Professor at the Berlin University Alliance.
Every year, the Diversity and Gender Equality Network (DiGENet) at the Berlin University Alliance awards a visiting professorship to renowned scholars who have distinguished themselves through internationally recognized research in the field of intersectional diversity studies. On May 6, 2025, the new Audre Lorde Visiting Professor, Prof. Dr. Angela Dziedzom Akorsu, gave her inaugural lecture.
Jun 03, 2025
Joint Berlin Data & AI Center planned
Data-driven research is crucial to tackling societal challenges - be it in health, materials or climate research. The Berlin University Alliance, Max Delbrück Center and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin are joining forces with the Zuse Institute Berlin to establish a powerful Data & AI Center in the capital in a unique collaboration.
May 28, 2025
Excellence Strategy: With five clusters of excellence, the Berlin University Alliance is having an important impact for Berlin’s future as a hub of science, research, and innovation
The German Research Foundation (DFG) today announced the funding decisions for the upcoming phase of the Excellence Strategy. Berlin did well in this national competition: Five clusters of excellence will receive funding from the German federal and state governments over a period of seven years starting in 2026.
May 26, 2025
innovate! lab for sustainable innovation in chemistry launched
Berlin University Alliance and Joachim Herz Foundation test new model for impact-oriented research transfer The Berlin University Alliance (BUA) and the Joachim Herz Foundation are strengthening the transfer of cutting-edge research into practice by founding a new company called innovate! lab gGmbH. The methodology lab is to test a particularly promising transfer approach using chemistry research results as an example. At the same time, the success factors associated with this approach will be examined from a methodological standpoint as part of accompanying scientific research and continuously adapted in practice. The goal is to gain insight into how to effectively support and promote complex innovation processes.
Apr 08, 2025