Additional research institutions
Federal institutions (selection):
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of Germany
- National Metrology Institute
- Scientific and technical service duties
- Higher Federal authority in the business area of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy
Abbestr. 2-12
10587 Berlin
www.ptb.de
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM)
- Scientific-technical Higher Federal Authority
- Duties: Continued development of safety in technology and chemistry, implementation and evaluation of physical and chemical testing of substances and equipment, and cooperation in the development of legal regulations
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)
Unter den Eichen 87
12205 Berlin
www.bam.de
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
- Federal Institute for Disease Control and Prevention
- Duties: Recognizing, preventing, and fighting infectious diseases.
- Federal Institute for Infectious Diseases and Noncommunicable Diseases
Bundesinstitut für Infektionskrankheiten und nicht übertragbare Krankheiten
Nordufer 20
13353 Berlin
www.rki.de
Further institutions:
Berliner Institut für Gesundheitswissenschaften / Berlin Institute of Health
- Founded by Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in 2013 – at the interface of university and non-university research and teaching
- Goals: Researching disease trajectories to develop personalized healthcare
- Basic research, clinical research, and transfer of findings into practice
- BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy for the education of young scientists
Anna-Louisa-Karsch-Str. 2
10178 Berlin
www.bihealth.org
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)
- Association of outstanding scientists with more than 300 years of tradition
- Supervision of primarily humanities-oriented scientific projects
- Interdisciplinary research groups on future issues of our society
- Social counseling and promotion of the dialogue between science and society
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
Jägerstr. 22-23
10117 Berlin
www.bbaw.de
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)
- Research and development in the field of information technology, in particular computational science, big data, and high performance computing
- Services such as the operation of the Berlin supercomputer, among others
Takustr. 7
14195 Berlin
www.zib.de
Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society (The German Internet Institute)
- Investigation of social change in connection with digitization and the development of options for action
- Interdisciplinary research in the field of social sciences, economics, and law with design research and computer science
- Business partners: Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Fraunhofer FOKUS, FU Berlin, HU Berlin, TU Berlin, UdK
Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft
(Das Deutsche Internet-Institut)
Hardenbergstr. 32
10623 Berlin
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
Einstein Center Digital Future
- The Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is an interdisciplinary project of the Technische Universität Berlin, the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Universität der Künste Berlin.
- Inter-university research center for the study of digital structures
- Interdisciplinary top research and training of young scientists
- Research areas: Smart cities, smart mobility, digital education, Internet of Things, bioinformatics, personalized medicine, digital diagnostics, etc.
- Public-private partnership of more than 30 companies and organisations, the four Berlin universities, the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and more than ten research institutes from Berlin's scientific community, which financed around 50 new professorships
- Principle of Open Science
Robert-Koch-Forum
Wilhelmstr. 67
10117 Berlin
www.digital-future.berlin