Chirality, the property that makes an object distinct from its mirror image, is ubiquitous in nature. It is found in elementary particles, in molecules and biological structures, and manifests itself in many physical phenomena. In particular, it gives rise to a remarkable intrinsic stability against external perturbations that has spurred a strong worldwide interest in chiral materials.

ImmunoPreCept pioneers a paradigm shift in medicine: moving from treating symptomatic diseases to actively preserving health. The cluster deciphers how immune-tissue networks maintain homeostasis and how early molecular changes can predict disease, enabling targeted prevention and early interception of common chronic diseases.

The Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+ aims to advance mathematics in close interaction with interdisciplinary research in order to make progress on central questions across a broad range of application areas.

The Cluster »Matters of Activity. Image Space Material« aims to create a basis for a new culture of materials. The central vision of the Cluster is to rediscover the analog in the activity of images, spaces and materials in the age of the digital.

The focus of our cluster of excellence is on understanding neurological and psychiatric disorders. The aim of this interdisciplinary research network is to gain a deeper understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms and, on this basis, to develop new therapeutic approaches.

The Cluster of Excellence "Science of Intelligence (SCIoI)" fundamentally advances our understanding of intelligence, integrate and unify theories, concepts, and insights from existing intelligence-related disciplines, catalyze progress in these disciplines, and - perhaps most importantly - advance our ability to construct intelligent technological artifacts for applications of societal importance.

The liberal model of society is under increasing pressure worldwide. Authoritarian and illiberal states, as well as violent non-state actors, pose serious challenges to liberal democracies from the outside. From within, populist movements and parties claim to uphold liberal values while simultaneously contesting their meaning, thereby fueling extremism, eroding trust in institutions, and deepening social polarization.

The Cluster of Excellence 2020 "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" aims to create a new theoretical and methodological take on literature in a global perspective that moves beyond the categories of nation and period and conceives of literature instead as a transcultural and transtemporal phenomenon in deep time.

UniSysCat is an interdisciplinary research network working jointly on coupled reactions in catalysis. To master this challenge, our research groups are comprising molecular and structural biologists, biochemists and biophysicists, physical and theoretical chemists as well as physicists.