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Research Profile

By virtue of its broad spectrum of disciplines, the University of Freiburg offers ideal conditions for outstanding research at its eleven faculties and central research institutions. Existing partnerships with non-university research institutes such as Freiburg’s Max Planck Institutes and Fraunhofer Institutes as well as regional companies provide another basis for many successful cooperation projects.

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On this basis, University of Freiburg’s researchers conduct excellent, internationally visible interdisciplinary collaborative research in the three key research areas Languages of Knowledge, Pathways to Sustainability and Signals of Life.

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The flower graphic depicts the three key research areas at the University of Freiburg as three main petals and the two emerging fields as secondary petals. The three main petals are labelled as follows: The upper petal bears the title of the first key reserach area, ‘Signals of Life,’ and contains the sub-items Communication of Cells, Immunology in Health and Disease, and Brain and Intelligence. The right main petal of the flower represents the key research area ‘Languages of Knowledge’ and includes the sub-items Narrative Worlds, Temporal Orders, and Normative Practices. The third key area, ‘Pathways to Sustainability,’ is noted on the left petal and includes the sub-items Intelligent Technologies, Ecological and Socio-Ecological Systems of the Future, and New Materials and Substances. The two side petals are labelled with the titles of the emerging research areas. The left side petal features the emerging field ‘Sustainable Land Use Under Global Change’ and the right side petal features ‘AI for Humanities: Transformation and Reflection’.

Research in these key research areas is complemented by two emerging research fields, AI for Humanities: Transformation and Reflection andSustainable Land Use Under Global Change.

AI for Humanities: Transformation and Reflection

Sustainable Land Use Under Global Change