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Coffee is bad for your heart. Coffee lowers your risk of a heart attack. Both headlines may be based on real research-and still contradict each other. What does that mean for us? Which studies can we trust? And how can we tell whether an association really describes cause and effect?

Open science fuelled the discoveries shaping our world. But can it survive authoritarianism, geopolitics & proprietary AI? Join the dialogue organised by the Einstein Foundation Award and the Berlin University Alliance at Berlin Science Week.

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Kreidetrophäe Einstein Foundation Award

Who will take home the €100,000 Einstein Foundation Early Career Award? Meet the finalists pioneering research quality. Register now! The event takes place as part of the Berlin Science Week.

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The next Oxford-Berlin Symposium will take place in Berlin on 10 November, with opening remarks by Einstein Professor Beate Kampmann, among others. Save the date for a day of interdisciplinary dialogue exploring how research, infrastructure, and institutional practices shape our responses to global challenges.

Academic institutions across Europe and beyond have come under increasing political pressure, including attacks on their autonomy, funding and academic freedom. On Tuesday 3 November, BUA invites you to a panel discussion exploring how debates in Central and Southeast Europe resonate with those in Germany and relate to German political agendas.

Berlin Science Week transforms the city into a science festival from 1 to 10 November. The Einstein Foundation and two Einstein Centers are taking part. An overview.

Portrait Nikolaus Rajewsky

HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg spoke to Nikolaus Rajewsky, initiator of the Einstein Center Early Disease Interception (EC-EDI). In the interview, he explains what makes the EC-EDI special.

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Treating illnesses once they have emerged is the norm in medicine. Yet many diseases develop over years: cells undergo changes long before symptoms appear or conventional tests reveal any abnormality. But what if these processes could be detected earlier - and perhaps even halted?

Gain experience as a postdoctoral researcher at both a university and a non-university research institution in Berlin at the same time? The Berlin Career Track “Academia” is now offering this opportunity as part of a pilot phase supported by the Einstein Foundation.

Flags of different nationalities

Our colleague Silvia Dreier has taken on the task at the Einstein Foundation Berlin of advancing the recruitment of international researchers. She is now deeply involved in the topic, and we wanted to know: How is it going?

Mahmood Soofi in the mountains

The Executive Board of the Einstein Foundation Berlin has approved nine new grants with a total volume of €4.74 million for the next five years. The projects cover a wide range of topics, from algebraic geometry and novel approaches to quantum simulation and climate research to the social dynamics surrounding the establishment of nature conservation areas.

Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Stefano Evangelista will be holding sessions on "Writing Cosmopolitanism: World Literature, World Citizenship" as part of the IWL Summer School in July. The event at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin brings together students from all over the world with leading scholars in literary studies.

On 1 July, Einstein Visiting Fellow Tomila Lankina will deliver the 2026 Löwenthal Lecture at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She will speak about her forthcoming book, “To Live For Freedom: A History of Dissent in Russia”, which traces 400 years of Russian history.

Portrait Cecilia Clementi

Physicist and Einstein Professor Cecilia Clementi (Freie Universität Berlin) is set to receive an Advanced Grant worth roughly 3 million euros from the European Research Council. By means of the ERC Advanced Grant, the European Union aims to support exceptional researchers with a strong research track record who want to pursue groundbreaking, ambitious projects in new fields of research

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