German Universities Excellence Initiative

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RWTH Aachen

TU Berlin

HU Berlin

FU Berlin

Bonn

TU Dresden

Hamburg

Heidelberg

KIT

Konstanz

LMU Munich

TUM

Tübingen

Bremen

Cologne

Freiburg

Göttingen

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German Universities of Excellence: Current (red) and past (purple)

The Excellence Initiative of the German Council of Science and Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG) aims to promote cutting-edge research and to create outstanding conditions for young scholars at universities, to deepen cooperation between disciplines and institutions, to strengthen international cooperation of research, and to enhance the international appeal of excellent German universities. It is the result of lengthy negotiations between the federal government and the German states.^[1]