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A Yours free! University of Berlin (FU Berlin, German: Freie Universität Berlin) is the largest university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded within 1948 by students and staff world health organization were relegated because of their political views from either Humboldt University of Berlin, formerly a traditional Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität of Berlin, & at that period restricted per authorities in the Soviet sector. Inside 1968, it was the center of the left-wing German student movement within parallel to that in Paris and Berkeley. Militant of that instance involved a SDS and Rudi Dutschke. Per 1980s, it had be a big German university sustaining 66,000 students. Sustaining a popular restructuring of a Humboldt University when the German reunification, Freie Universität Berlin was downsized to about 38,000 students in the 1990s. Its independent campus is in the Dahlem district of the borough Steglitz-Zehlendorf. Locate at a Freie Universität Berlin is revolve around humanities and social sciences. Large previous scholars of a university include the philosopher Jacob Taubes, the philologist Peter Szondi, the German Supreme Court judge Jutta Limbach, former German president Roman Herzog and the 2004 German presidential candidate Gesine Schwan. A robot soccer players of the university's Computer Science department became vice world champions within 1999, 2000 and 2003 and world champions around 2004 and 2005.
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Free University of Berlin - Main website Comprehensive English-language information on academic departments and degree programs offered at the Freie Universität Berlin, plus research, libraries and central services. International Summer University - FU Berlin Information about courses and practicalities relating to the Free University's International Summer School program. Workshops of the Dahlem-Konferenzen - FU Berlin Basic information about past and upcoming workshops, and proceedings, of the Dahlem Conferences for the promotion of interdisciplinary research and communication. Full list of Departments and Institutions - FU Berlin Full list of links to academic departments, central institutions, and central services of the Free University of Berlin. Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Est. in 1986, the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies promotes research of young American scholars specializing in modern and contemporary German and European affairs. Fellowships are awarded for doctoral dissertation field research as well as postdoctoral research leading to the completion of a monograph. Access to resources and libraries at the Free University; generous travel grants available. Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Political Science Based at the famous (or notorious) Otto-Suhr-Institut, the Centre is engaged in research and teaching on European economic policy-making, European integration and comparative policy studies. Information about research, organization, and graduate opportunities. John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies The leading multidisciplinary department for North American Studies in Europe, offering MA degree course and Ph.D. programs (graduate and post-graduate scholarships available). Information about research groups, courses, faculty and the (excellent) departmental library. Institute of Chemistry, Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy English and German versions of the official information pages of the Institute of Chemistry at the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy. Charité - Campus Benjamin Franklin English-language information about the services and degree programs of the joint Medical School of the two major Berlin Universities. |
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