Research environment
Research and development in the fields of optics, photonics, microelectronics and quantum technology is carried out at 34 universities and research institutions. They make the region a center of optical technologies in Germany and provide the know-how and key technologies for digitization.
Advantages of Berlin as a university and research location
- The highest concentration of research institutions and activities in Germany
- High investment in research and development
- Close cooperation between business and science
- Targeted support for start-ups
Educational institutions in the region
- Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT)
- Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- Freie Universität Berlin
- HTW University of Applied Sciences
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau
- Technical University of Berlin
- University of Potsdam
Research institutions in the region
- BAM Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
- CSMB | Center for the Science of Materials Berlin
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Institute for Optical Sensor Systems
- Ferdinand-Braun-Institut gGmbH, Leibniz-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik FBH
- Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP
- Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute, HHI
- Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS
- Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology IPK
- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI-BB
- Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration IZM
- Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
- The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
- IHP – Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik, Frankfurt/Oder
- Institut Berlin der PTB
- Institute of Applied Photonics (IAP)
- Institut für Dünnschichttechnologie und Mikrosensorik e. V. (IDM)
- Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS e. V.
- Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam AIP
- Leibniz-Institut für Kristallzüchtung IKZ
- Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
- OUT e. V.
- Weierstrass Institute
- Zentrum für Innovationskompetenz innoFSPEC Potsdam
- ZeSys e. V.
- Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB)
