Funding periods
The second funding period (2026-2032) comprises 70 clusters with an annual budget of 539 million euros. Five applications were approved in Berlin: MATH+, NeuroCure, ImmunoPreCept, Centre for Chiral Electronics, Contestations of the Liberal Script. The interdisciplinary research projects will be funded by the federal and state governments over a period of seven years from 2026.
In the first funding period, 57 Clusters of Excellence were funded with 385 million euros annually. Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin has acquired the following Clusters of Excellence: Matters of Activity (MoA), Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), MATH+, NeuroCure (funded since 2007). In addition, researchers at Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin are also involved in other Berlin Clusters of Excellence - Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS), Unifying Systems in Catalysis (UniSysCat) and Temporal Communities.
Matters of Activity
Rethinking materials from nature
Funding period 2019-2025
At the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, researchers from 40 disciplines want to better understand the inner activity of materials in order to be able to develop more sustainable, resilient and fairer concepts and products in the future. To this end, the cluster is investigating traditional cultural techniques such as cutting, weaving and filtering and the associated millennia-old knowledge about the handling of materials.
Science of Intelligence
MATH+
NeuroCure
New therapies for neurological and psychiatric diseases
Funding period 2007-2025, re-approved 2026-2032
The NeuroCure cluster, which focuses on neurosciences, aims to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. It researches diseases from all areas of life: from embryonic development to old age.
