Graduate Schools at Freie Universität Berlin Recognized by Einstein Foundation

First Einstein Awards for Outstanding Doctoral Programs Conferred. ' 015/2017 from Jan 19, 2017 Today, for the first time, the Einstein Foundation conferred its Einstein Award for Doctoral Programs at Berlin's universities and Charité Medical School Berlin. One of the awards went to the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. The Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies, which is organized jointly by Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität, is also one of the winners. The Governing Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research, Michael Müller, presented the certificates during the New Year's reception of the Einstein Foundation held in the Berliner City Hall. The total award money amounts to roughly one million euros over a three-year period. The Einstein Foundation Berlin's new award honors doctoral programs at Berlin universities and Charité university hospital that have already proved particularly successful in practice.