Science communication from Berlin and around the world

Whether podcast, YouTube video, or publication – the Berlin University Alliance reports on the research of its partner institutions, on the international cooperation of the Excellence Alliance, and on how it wants to change Berlin's academic landscape.

Berlin University Alliance in the Media

Here you will find a selection of current media reports (mostly German)

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• UNITE receives millions in funding for start-up and transfer platform. Distribution of the Berlin University Alliance press release shows great interest in Unite in the capital region, 16.07.2025

Altenpflege Online

• How the CaringS project aims to relieve the burden on care workers. Report on the CaringS research project funded by the Berlin University Alliance, 13.02.2025

Berliner Kurier

• Because of Trump: Berlin starts hunting for researchers from the US. Report by the Berliner Kurier with Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz, Managing Director of the Berlin University Alliance, 23.03.2025

Brain City Berlin - website of Berlin Partner

• Building bridges between Oxford and Berlin. Feature on the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership of the Berlin University Alliance

• Research transfer through agility. Interview with Dr. Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz on the founding of the innovate! lab at the Berlin University Alliance

Berliner Zeitung

• Berlin University Alliance in the final round for an innovative transfer center, in: Berliner Zeitung, 10.04.2024
• New course offering at Berlin universities: Gender and diversity in research. Report on the Certificate Program Gender & Diversity in Science & Technology at the Berlin University Alliance, in: Berliner Zeitung, 27.03.2024
• Berlin teenagers are asked to propose solutions to global problems. Report on the “Next Grand Challenge, in: Berliner Zeitung, 10.07.2022

Deutschlandfunk Nova

• What are the consequences of Trump's fight against science? Report with answers from Dr. Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz, Managing Director of the Berlin University Alliance, in: Deutschlandfunk Nova, 27.03.2025

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.)

• Our teacher Dr. Pepper. Report on intelligence research in the Berlin research area, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 01.10.2023
• Falling Walls Conference 2022: Thinking rationally and listening to each other, event report, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11.11.2022

Innovationstreiber - The Magazine for Alumni of ZWM

• “An agile corporate structure.” Interview with Dr. Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz, Managing Director of the Berlin University Alliance, on the founding of “innovate! lab gGmbH”, in: Innovationstreiber 01/2025, Seiten 14-15

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• Federal and state governments decide on science funding. In: rbb Inforadio, 19.5.2025

Tagesspiegel-reports from 2025

• Promoting science in difficult times: Berlin has enormous potential: This is how we can realize it. Guest contribution by Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger and Prof. Dr. Thomas Sommer with positive mention of the Berlin University Alliance as a driver of cooperation in the Berlin knowledge and innovation space, in: Tagesspiegel, August 14, 2025
• Cuts in science: Is Berlin squandering its greatest asset? Guest articles by Prof. Dr. Günter M. Ziegler, spokesperson for the Berlin University Alliance, and Prof. Dr. Juri Rappsilber (Technical University of Berlin), among others, on cuts in science as a strategic challenge, in: Tagesspiegel, July 23, 2025
• Universities facing the new excellence decision: What is at stake for Berlin? In: Tagesspiegel, May 20, 2025
• From research to start-up: Berlin universities found company for chemical products, report on the “innovate! lab” of the Berlin University Alliance, in: Tagesspiegel, April 3, 2025
• Building for Berlin's universities is set to become easier. Report that also discusses the positive impact of the Excellence Network on cooperation in Berlin as a center of knowledge and innovation. In: Tagesspiegel, April 1, 2025
• Berlin science seeks capital: What do researchers need to bring ideas to market? Report in Tagesspiegel, March 24, 2025
• Germany courts top researchers: Berlin wants to set up fund to attract US researchers, report in Der Tagesspiegel with Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz, Managing Director of the Berlin University Alliance, March 22, 2025
• Trump's attack on science: “The goal is control and subjugation.” Guest article by the Chairman of the Einstein Foundation Berlin with appreciation of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership of the Berlin University Alliance, March 18, 2025
• Entrepreneur Tanja Wielgoß' vision for Berlin in 2030: “A cosmopolitan city and European role model.” Guest article in Tagesspiegel, taking into account the work of the Berlin University Alliance, March 18, 2025

Tagesspiegel-reports from previous years

• click here for reports in the Tagesspiegel about Berlin University Alliance from 2023 and 2024
  

ZEIT

• Podcast “What now?” Episode: How deeply divided Germany is. Report on research by the Einstein Research Unit “Coping with Affective Polarization” at the Berlin University Alliance, in: ZEIT ONLINE, May 13, 2025