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What is the German University Federation called?

The German U15 University Alliance (German: German U15 Universitäten) is a university alliance composed of 15 well-known research universities in Germany. The alliance was founded on October 12, 2012 with the aim of improving the structure of research and education in Germany.

The German U15 University Alliance also maintains good cooperative relations with other major national university alliances, such as the China C9 Alliance, the UK Russell University Group, the Japan Academic Research Forum, the Australian Eight Universities Alliance, and the Canada U15 Research University Alliance. In addition, there are similar national university alliances in the world, such as the American Ivy League.

Alliance Status

The 15 universities of the German U15 University Alliance account for 13% of the total number of German universities, undertake 37% of third-party funding, 60% of medical funding, 43% of doctoral degrees, and have won 43% of the Leibniz Prize. The chairman of the alliance is Bernd Eitel, president of the University of Heidelberg.

Leibniz Prize

The “Leibniz Prize” mainly funds the scientific research work of outstanding researchers, and encourages them to lead rising stars to participate in scientific research, the highest award for scientific research in Germany. It is currently one of the highest scientific awards in the world. Each winner can receive a scientific research bonus of 2.5 million euros, which is much higher than the Nobel Prize.

Introduction

The “Leibniz Prize” is named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a well-known generalist scholar in modern Germany, and is currently one of the highest scientific awards in the world. This award mainly funds the research work of outstanding researchers and encourages them to lead rising stars to participate in research.

Year

On March 3, 2015, the award ceremony of the “Leibniz Prize”, the highest German scientific research award, was held in Berlin. The 8 winners were selected by the “Leibniz Prize” Nomination Committee from 136 recommended candidates from the fields of natural and human sciences. Each winner will receive a research bonus of 2.5 million euros, which is much higher than Nobel Prize.

Hendrik Dietz of the Technical University of Munich is the youngest recipient of the award at the age of 36. He has made important contributions to the basic research field of “DNA origami” (ie, the cutting and folding of long strands of deoxyribonucleic acid), which has promoted the widespread application of this technology in biology and biophysics. Other laureates include Prof. Henri Chapman from the German Electron Synchrotron Research Center and Prof. Christian Hertwick from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology.

Alliance member

• South Germany

Munich University: Located in Munich, the capital of Bayern state and the largest city in South Germany, the second largest city in Germany, and the 8th university in Germany.

University of Wurzburg: The third university in Germany, located in the university city of Wurzburg, Bayern.

Heidelberg University: Located in the university city of Baden-Württemberg, Heidelberg, the first university in Germany.

University of Freiburg: Located in the university city of Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg, Germany’s 7th university.

University of Tübingen: Located in the university city of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany’s 10th university.

• North Germany

University of Hamburg: Located in Hamburg, the largest city in North Germany and the third largest city in Germany, it was established in the 20th century.

• West Germany

University of Göttingen: Located in the university town of Göttingen in Lower Saxony.

University of Cologne: Cologne is the fourth largest university in Germany, the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and West Germany, and the second university in Germany.

The University of Bonn is located in Bonn, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia.

University of Münster: located in the university town of Münster in NRW.

Frankfurt University: Located in Frankfurt, the capital of Hesse, the fifth largest city in Germany, and the financial and aviation center, it was established in the 20th century.

Mainz University : Located in Mainz, the capital and largest city of the Rhineland-Palatinate state, the ninth university in Germany.

• East Germany

Humboldt University of Berlin: located in East Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany.

Free University of Berlin: Located in West Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany.

Leipzig University: Leipzig, Saxony, the second largest city in the former GDR (German Democratic Republic) after Berlin, is the fourth university in Germany.