Stiftung Charité
About the funder
The Charité Foundation is an independent, private-law, and non-profit foundation established in 2005 by Johanna Quandt. Its goal is to strengthen Berlin as a leading location for the life sciences. This is achieved through funding programs in the areas of innovation promotion, scientific support, and Open Life Science. The foundation supports Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin as well as other life science partner institutions. It engages with entrepreneurial agility and flexibility and leverages its private freedoms for new, complementary programs and networks beyond science, business, and the non-profit sector.
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Mission & Vision
The Charité Foundation empowers and supports individuals at all career stages to realize their potential in the life sciences. It is committed to equal opportunities, diversity, and bold innovation. Through targeted funding programs and networking events, it fosters collaborations across disciplines, countries, and institutions. As a private foundation, it leverages its flexibility to allocate funds with temporal and thematic agility and to provide impetus for new initiatives in science, technology transfer, and science communication.
Target groups
The funding programs of the Stiftung Charité are aimed at students, doctoral candidates, early-career, established, and leading scientists in the life sciences, as well as clinical researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and its partners. In addition, international guest scientists, media professionals in Open Life Science, and innovative teams advancing new ideas in research, teaching, technology transfer, and science communication are supported.