PROMOTING INNOVATION, SHAPING THE FUTURE.

Stiftung Charité was founded in 2005 by the entrepreneur Johanna Quandt (1926 – 2015). It is an independent private non-profit foundation. Stiftung Charité promotes Berlin as a world-leading center for the life sciences. It supports Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and other life science organizations with funding programs in three key areas: Innovation, Research, and Open Life Science.

 

CURRENT CALLS:

 

Clinical Fellows: 07/01/2026

Innovation Funding

Research Funding

Open Life Science

News

At its spring meeting, the Board of Trustees of Stiftung Charité elected a new Chair: Jan Eder takes on the voluntary role with immediate effect, succeeding Professor Jürgen Zöllner, who is stepping down from the…

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Stiftung Charité is providing EUR 900,000 to support Charité’s new Profile Partnerships Program, part of the university hospital’s Internationalization Strategy 2030. The funding enables strategically selected…

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Stiftung Charité has awarded the 2026 Max Rubner Award to the project “Mind the Gap – An Interdisciplinary Bridge between Psychiatry, Emergency Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine.” The project aims to meaningfully…

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Stiftung Charité’s contribution to the 17th Berliner Stiftungswoche – “Prevention Over Cure: Perspectives on Modern Preventive Medicine” – was warmly received at the Berlin Medical History Museum of the Charité on April…

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Protected time for experienced and clinically active senior physicians to pursue practice-oriented projects in continuing education, clinical observerships, or the transfer of clinical knowledge. New in this call for…

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Events

Stiftung Charité not only provides external funding but is also actively involved in the Berlin life sciences. The foundation brings its funding recipients together and identifies its own areas of inspiration. Hosting its own events is an important way to achieve these goals. Regular events from Stiftung Charité include the Charité Management Lectures, Networking Events, and Welcome Receptions.

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Stiftung Charité in numbers

Focus areas of the foundation’s work
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Innovation – Research – Open Life Science
Funding volume
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Mill. per year (average from 2022, 2023, 2024)

Number of funding programs and initiatives
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12 programs + events
Number of new grantees
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per year (average from 2022, 2023, 2024)