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The institutes of the Forschungsverbund are involved in three of the 70 Clusters of Excellence funded by the German federal and state governments.
On May 22, 2025, the Excellence Commission announced its decision in the second round of the Excellence Strategy competition. The program will fund a total of 70 Clusters of Excellence. 45 of these projects are continuations, while 25 new clusters have been added. Institutes of the Forschungsverbund Berlin are involved in three of the five funded Clusters of Excellence proposed by Berlin universities: the MATH+ project with the participation of WIAS, the NeuroCure project with the participation of FMP, and the Center for Chiral Electronics with the participation of MBI.
MATH+: Berlin Mathematics Research Center (continued funding)
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin
Research institutes: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Zuse Institute Berlin
In the MATH+ Cluster of Excellence, researchers are developing new mathematical methods to analyze large amounts of data in targeted ways and make them usable for practical applications. The objective is to further expand cooperation between mathematics and other disciplines and to address societal challenges, for example in the fields of energy, mobility, health, and technology. “Mathematics is able to uncover the hidden principles that lie behind complex systems, thereby enabling deeper insights, improved predictions, and information-based decisions.” (MATH+, 03.06.2025). A particular focus is on the mathematical principles of AI: Mathematics plays a key role in the development and understanding of AI. MATH+ contributes to the precise explanation of the functioning of AI systems, as this is the only way to ensure that they can be used safely and responsibly.
NeuroCure: New approaches to the research and treatment of diseases of the nervous system (continued funding)
Cluster of Excellence at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Applicant universities: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research institute: Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases
The NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence is dedicated to researching brain disorders, such as neurological and psychiatric disorders. The objective is to better understand the causes of these diseases and develop new treatment options. Researchers from various disciplines work closely together to accomplish this. NeuroCure combines basic research with clinical practice. To ensure that new findings benefit patients as quickly as possible, a dedicated clinical research center, the NCRC, has been established at Charité. It supports clinical studies and thereby opens up access to innovative diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
Center for Chiral Electronics (new funding)
Applicant universities: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Regensburg
Research institutes: Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
The Center for Chiral Electronics pursues an interdisciplinary approach that combines chirality, spin physics, and electronics. The term chirality refers to the property of an object that cannot be aligned with its mirror image—similar to left and right hands. This asymmetrical structure gives many natural molecules exceptional stability. Chirality has hardly been used in electronics to date. The Center for Chiral Electronics aims to change this by exploring chirally structured materials and making them usable for electronic applications. The goal is to create the basis for new molecular, spintronic, and superconducting components. These should not only be more powerful and energy-efficient, but also more robust against external disturbances. A particular focus is on the development of materials suitable for the next generation of storage and semiconductor technologies – of particular relevance in times of rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
The Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments aims to strengthen top-level research in Germany and is administered by the DFG. All German universities can submit applications in cooperation with non-university research institutes. Funding will begin on January 1, 2026, and will be granted for seven years. Each cluster of excellence can apply for between €3 million and €10 million per year. The strategy was launched in 2016; the first funding period began in January 2019. This is the second round of the competition, in which a total of 20 projects from Leibniz institutes were selected. The Excellence Commission, which decides on the funding of the projects, consists of scientists and the science ministers of the federal and state governments. The funding is provided 75% by the federal government and 25% by the states.
https://mathplus.de/
https://neurocure.de/en/index.html
https://www.chiralelectronics.de/
https://www.dfg.de/resource/blob/357306/0ea6896108889a755f7a7e96d755540e/250522-...
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