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Research at Freie Universit?t Berlin is characterized by the diversity of the academic networks the university maintains as well as by interdisciplinary fields of research that establish research foci and set future research trends. The main features of Freie Universit?t’s research activities include the broad variety of global academic and scientific cooperation arrangements in place as part of alliance projects and interdisciplinary networks with other entities active in research. The goal is to identify social, economic, and cultural trends on a global scale and to develop relevant fields of research.

Freie Universit?t Berlin works continuously to expand and strengthen its national, international, and interdisciplinary research networks. The university promotes the transfer of knowledge and offers junior scholars an outstanding level of education. The excellent quality of research at Freie Universit?t Berlin is confirmed by the high positions it achieves in university rankings. The importance of the university’s research achievements is reflected in its steady increase in external funding in the past years and in the many prestigious research awards received by scholars of Freie Universit?t Berlin.

Success in the Excellence Initiative and the Excellence Strategy: The Berlin University Alliance has won funding as a group in the Universities of Excellence funding line of the German government’s Excellence Strategy. The four Berlin partners – Freie Universit?t Berlin, Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin, Technische Universit?t Berlin, and Charité – Universit?tsmedizin Berlin – submitted a joint proposal entitled "Crossing Boundaries toward an Integrated Research Environment".

Third-party funded projects of Freie Universit?t Berlin in the last 15 years.