In the latest phase of the German national Excellence Initiative, Freie Universität Berlin has again achieved excellence status. As the joint committee consisting of members of the German Research Foundation, the German Council of Science and Humanities, and ministers of the German federal and state governments announced on Friday in Bonn, the university has had projects approved in all three funding lines. Funds have been committed through 2017 for the university’s future development concept “Veritas – Justitia – Libertas. International Network University” along with three clusters of excellence and seven graduate schools based at Freie Universität Berlin or with participation by Freie Universität. The following excellence clusters were approved for renewed funding: NeuroCure, Topoi, and Unifying Concepts in Catalysis. The following graduate schools were approved for new or renewed funding: Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, the Berlin Mathematical School, the Berlin School of Integrative Oncology (new), the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, the Graduate School of North American Studies, and the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (new).
Freie Universität Berlin and Its Strategic Partners to Receive € 1 Mio in DAAD Funding for University Alliance for Sustainability. “Freie Universität Berlin and its strategic partners see it as their responsibility to actively shape the discourse on sustainability and to meet global challenges with activities in all parts of the university,” said Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, the president of Freie Universität Berlin. “Forming this network under the topic of sustainability is a great chance to further develop structures to work with our most important partners worldwide.”
The University Alliance for Sustainability will use the partners’ complementary strengths to develop joint research and teaching projects, offer exchange options for faculty, staff, and students, and foster inter-institutional learning with regard to management issues. To this end, the partners will develop joint undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Student initiatives will be able to network with their counterparts at other universities. Funding will also be available for research stays for researchers, summer schools for PhD students, conferences on the topic of “Green Campus” for management personnel, and several study and internship abroad options.
Freie Universität Berlin and the University of British Columbia signed a strategic partnership agreement to foster innovation in research and teaching in May 2014. With this alliance, two of the world's best ranked universities joined forces to strengthen their partnership and international outlook. The new agreement is the first strategic alliance between a German and a Canadian university in which both institutions set out to use synergies systematically and to foster cooperation in research and teaching. “With today’s signing, Freie Universität and UBC affirm our joint commitment to world class research and to deliver an enriched student experience,” underlined Prof. Dr. Stephen Toope, the president of the University of British Columbia.
For the internationally oriented FUB, the new agreement marks the fourth of such strategic partnerships after the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Peking University, and the St. Petersburg University. UBC upholds a network with Sciences Po, the University of Tokyo, and Peking University, as well as the Max Planck Society.
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In its latest World Reputation Rankings, the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine again includes Freie Universität among the 100 most highly regarded universities of the world.
In the 2014-2015 rankings - Freie Universität Berlin is among Top Five in Germany and 28th in Europe!
According to the recently released prestigious QS World University Rankings, Freie Universität places in the overall top 5 German universities. In 21 out of 30 subjects it is in the top 200 universities worldwide! FUB's History ranks the best among all German universities. The university ranks among the world’s 50 best universities in an additional three subjects i.e. Modern Languages, Sociology and Philosophy!
The Charité Foundation was able to win the 2013 Nobel laureate in medicine, Prof. Dr. Thomas Südhof, as a Visiting Fellow for the Berlin Institute of Health. Südhof, currently a professor of cellular physiology at Stanford University in California is the first scientist to join the team in Berlin with the support of the Private Excellence Initiative of Johanna Quandt, which is managed by the Charité Foundation.
The former employee of the U.S. intelligence agencies NSA and CIA, Edward Snowden, is an honorary member of Freie Universität Berlin. On Wednesday Prof. Dr. Peter-André Alt, the president of Freie Universität Berlin, informed the members of the Academic Senate that Snowden had accepted the offer of honorary membership extended to him the previous week. Alt said that Snowden has not yet responded to an invitation to take part in a discussion at Freie Universität.
Research Group at Freie Universität Does International Comparative Analysis of Structure and Impact of Early Childhood Education.
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On October 17, Freie Universität Berlin holds a ceremony in the Henry Ford Building in recognition of the 30 years of cooperation between Freie Universität and the Paris Institute of Political and Social Sciences (Sciences Po).
The dancer and choreographer Koffi Kôkô, a native of Benin, is the new Valeska Gert Visiting Professor at the Institute of Theater Studies at Freie Universität during the 2014/2015 fall/winter semester.
Literary Scholar from the University of Tokyo and MIT Expert on Japan to Do Research in Berlin from 2015 to 2017
Freie Universität Berlin Most Popular Destination in Germany for Leading Researchers and Outstanding Young Scholars from Abroad With Significant Lead in First Place in Latest Ranking by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
The Society – a joint association of the British Computer Society and the Science Museum in London – honored Rojas with the 2014 Tony Sale Award.
An international conference to be held at Freie Universität Berlin will deal with current relations between China and Latin America. Participants at the conference to be held on October 24 and 25 will take a look at the various actors in the fields of environment, society, and international relations.
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