Berlin - City of Science

All signs pointed to discovery: Alexander von Humboldt was born on September 14th 1769 in Berlin – in the shine of the Messier comet, which was making its way across...

The Berlin Polish Institute already exists since the 50’s, as an organisation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland. Today, the Polish...

The Charité is spread across four locations with more than 100 clinics and institutes, around 3,750 scientists and doctors, and an annual turnover of approximately a...

The Free University (FU) Berlin is the largest university in Berlin and one of the largest in Germany. It ranks among the so-called elite universities in the country...

When he heard he had won the Nobel Prize, he couldn't hold back his tears. “I didn't expect to be so greatly honoured”, Gerhard Ertl said movingly. Yet, he had been...

Here, one feels the spirit of the far but yet close Russia and its folk. The Russian German relations were often tense. The organisation wants to promote culture,...

Only in 1991 did the Spanish state found the Instituto Cervantes, with the goal to promote the Spanish language as well as distribute the cultural assets of Spain and...

“Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Zentrum“ is paraded in large letters over the entrance of the monumental building in Berlin Mitte, near the Humboldt University. In the...

It has to do with fundamental research in all areas, meaning: in the humanities, natural, biological and social sciences. And that in service of the community. The...

Otto Hahn was born on the 8th of March 1879, as son of a merchant in Frankfurt am Main. After school he began a course of studies in chemistry, which he completed...

Mit zehn Millionen Bänden ist die Staatsbibliothek die größte Universalbibliothek Deutschlands. Und in ihrem Bestand verfügt sie über zahlreiche kostbare...

The Berlin Universität der Künste (UdK) unifies all the arts, and sciences pertaining to them, under one roof. With its four departments—music, performing arts,...

Two people sit in front of a computer and are playing ping-pong, without joystick, without mouse, without keyboard. Because to move the digital paddles requires...