Save to the pain limit: Berlin's universities in the crisis!

Save to the pain limit: Berlin's universities in the crisis!

The Berlin financial crisis meets universities and clinics hard! As the Berliner Zeitung , the Senate plans massive savings of a total of 280 million euros in the budget 2025. This is the main focus of the universities and the Charité, Europe's largest university clinic. Science senator Ina Czyborra stated that 142 million euros of these cuts should benefit the universities directly to the universities, including the Charité. Already promised 1.73 billion euros for research and teaching are greatly reduced.

protests and cuts threaten

The Academic Senate of the Technical University of Berlin warns of the devastating consequences of these austerity measures. The universalities see their existence threatened and are already planning protests in front of the House of Representatives. The Charité, which already recorded 135 million euros in loss in 2023, will also have to accept considerable cuts in its technical infrastructure. According to the previous decisions, it could only receive 8.5 million euros instead of the originally planned 17.3 million. Also when distributing the austerity measures between the universities remains unclear how the funds are specifically shortened, which leads to a lack of planning security.