Topics of the all-day 2024 symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership of the Berlin University Alliance under the title "Futures - new knowledge for a complex world" are the future of democracy and global health as well as challenges of the European energy system and addressing the future in the humanities and arts.
In lectures, discussions and performances, scientists from the natural sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences as well as artists will explore how new technologies and forms of knowledge affect society, democracy, health, energy supply or architecture.

"The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership of the Berlin University Alliance promotes collaboration between scientists across national and disciplinary borders. In my field of global health, this is particularly important. I am therefore delighted to open the third annual symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership together with the President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal, and the State Secretary for Higher Education and Research of the State of Berlin, Dr. Henry Marx," says Prof. Dr. Beate Kampmann, Academic Director of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership and Director of the Centre for Global Health and the Institute of International Health at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Professor Alexander Betts, Leopold Muller Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, and the University of Oxford’s Local and Global Engagement Officer adds:„It is a pleasure to come to Berlin for the third annual symposium of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership and build on last year’s successful edition in Oxford. I am especially looking forward to meeting our partners from the Berlin University Alliance and discussing the future of democracy with my distinguished co-panellists in the first discussion of the day.”

The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership

The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership strengthens the links between Oxford and Berlin's universities and research institutes. Since its founding in 2017, more than 1,200 researchers at all career levels and students from Berlin and Oxford have been supported as part of the partnership.

The Berlin University Alliance

The Berlin University Alliance - the excellence alliance of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universitäz zu Berlin, Technische Universität of Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin - is making Berlin one of the leading research areas in the world. Across disciplines and areas of society, Berlin is to become an open knowledge laboratory by 2030. To this end, the Berlin University Alliance is driving forward three cross-cutting concerns: the development of a network of strategic partnerships with leading universities and the global south, diversity and equal opportunities, and - for the first time within the framework of an excellence programme - the linking of top research and teaching. The Berlin University Alliance is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Berlin as part of the federal and state excellence strategy.

Joint press release by Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Further information

• on the programme of the Oxford Berlin Research Partnership's 2024 symposium "Futures - new knowledge for a complex world": https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/international/oxford/termine/250703-futures.html

Press contact

• Suhana Reddy, Head of Communications at the Berlin University Alliance, E-mail: suhana.reddy@berlin-university-alliance.de