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Projects

Clusters of Excellence

In the ongoing first round of the Excellence Strategy, the University of Freiburg received approval in the first funding line for the Clusters of Excellence CIBSS – Centre for Integrative Biological Signalling Studies and livMatS – Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems. These two Clusters of Excellence took up their work on 1 January 2019.

The Cluster of Excellence Future Forests – Adapting Complex Social-ecological Forest Systems to Global Change will be established at the University of Freiburg on 1 January 2026. 

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Light chamber for plant cultivation in the Biology Department at the University of Freiburg.

Coordinated DFG Programs

Collaborative research centres, research training groups, research units and priority programmes headed by Freiburg researchers, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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EU Projects

The European Research Council (ERC) funds groundbreaking research projects by outstanding scientists with substantial grants. Other successful projects are funded within the structural development and education programmes Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.

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BMFTR Collaborative Research Projects

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) funds numerous ongoing projects.

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Early Career Research Groups

Early Career Researchers at the University of Freiburg receive funding through ERC Starting Grants, the DFG’s Emmy Noether groups or BMBF research groups, for example.

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Foundation Projects

Cutting-edge international research is funded e.g. within the framework of the ‘CZS Durchbrüche’ programme by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. Sustainability research has been funded since 2020 by the Eva Mayr-Stihl Foundation.

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