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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
ProFiL Programme in the Berlin University Alliance supports women scholars pursuing a professorship
The 18th funding round of the ProFiL Programme offers space for 66 high-achieving women scholars from the integrated research area of the Berlin University Alliance. From July 2025 to July 2026, the selected participants develop career strategies and prepare for the leadership and management tasks of a professorship. The successful ProFiL Programme of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin has been running since 2004 and has been expanded as part of the Berlin University Alliance to offer additional places and an English-language program line for international women academics. Applications for the new funding round are open until November 15.
Oct 10, 2024
BUA Fellows Club invites members to first networking meeting
On the evening of November 4, the very first BUA Fellows Forum will take place in the Harnack House of the Max Planck Society. In a relaxed atmosphere, the meeting will offer Fellows from all disciplines and career stages the opportunity to get to know each other and network.
Sep 24, 2024
International expert conference ‘Fragile Lives 2024’ cutting-edge research and practitioners develop strategies against multiple crises
How do people around the world react to the simultaneous occurrence of various crises such as droughts, famines and wars? How can food security be increased in multiple crises? What can science contribute to stabilising and strengthening affected societies and states? Questions like these will be discussed by researchers from various disciplines and experts from the field at the international conference ‘Fragile Lives 2024’ on 1 and 2 October 2024 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Interested parties can register online now.
Sep 23, 2024
Annual symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership brings together renowned researchers to discuss global challenges
While climate change and migration require global solutions, nationalism, economic rivalry and wars are on the rise worldwide. Thinkers from Oxford, Berlin and beyond will discuss ways out on 3 July as part of the third annual symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership at the Humboldt Forum.
Jun 24, 2024
Berlin Universities Publishing supports researchers with guidance on how to use AI in publications
Berlin Universities Publishing (BerlinUP), the academic publisher in the Berlin University Alliance, has become one of the first university publishers in the German-speaking world to support authors with a guideline on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in academic publications. The guideline is available online.
May 15, 2024
“innovate! Center” Proposed by Berlin University Alliance among Finalists for 30 Million Euros in Funding from Joachim Herz Foundation
The Berlin University Alliance has reached the final stage of a call for proposals issued by the Joachim Herz Foundation. The aim is to establish an innovative transfer center that will focus on “New Materials for Sustainable Technology.” The winner will receive 30 million euros over a maximum funding period of ten years. Four other projects have reached the final selection round alongside the application from the Berlin University Alliance. Eighteen entries were originally received for the competition.
Apr 19, 2024
Anglo-German research gets huge boost: two million euro for a new strategic fellowship programme
University of Oxford, the Berlin University Alliance and the Einstein Foundation have invested 2m€ in a new fellowship programme to deepen academic links across the Channel. The focus is on two of the biggest challenges of our time: global health and social cohesion.
Feb 01, 2023
Lecture Series: ”Diversity and Excellence – A Tense Relationship?!“
In Winter Semester 2022/23
Oct 28, 2022
Apply now: Training for good Mentoring of PhD Candidates
Training program "Superb Supervision - Mentoring your PhD Candidate towards Responsible Research" in October in Berlin
Sep 08, 2022
High Pressure to Publish
In the Berlin Science Survey Researchers Estimate Their Research Situation
Aug 30, 2022
Research Quality Funding Program Launched
The Berlin University Alliance Awards First Fellowships in Research Quality and Value
Aug 16, 2022
Tested in Berlin – study in Ukraine
Berlin University Alliance Offers Refugee School Students Opportunity to Sit University Entrance Exams in August
Aug 12, 2022
Spotlights on Knowledge Exchange
Online Brochure of the Berlin University Alliance examines Innovative Approaches to Science Communication with Society
Jul 26, 2022
