Berlin is the capital and the biggest city of Germany and in addition one of its 16 constituent states. With a populace of around 3.7 million, Berlin is the second most crowded city appropriate in the European Union and the seventh most crowded urban range in the European Union. Situated in north eastern Germany on the banks of the waterways Binge and Havel, it is the focal point of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Locale, which has about 6 million inhabitants from more than 180 countries. Because of its area in the European Plain, Berlin is impacted by a calm occasional atmosphere. Around 33% of the city’s region is made out of woodlands, parks, gardens, waterways, channels and lakes.

Berlin is a universal city of culture, legislative issues, media and science. Its economy depends on innovative firms and the administration part, enveloping a various scope of inventive ventures, explore offices, media partnerships and tradition settings. Berlin fills in as a mainland centre point for air and rail movement and has a profoundly complex open transportation organize. The city is a prevalent traveller goal. Critical enterprises additionally incorporate IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical building, clean tech, biotechnology, development and gadgets.

The city has four open research colleges and more than 30 private, expert, and specialized schools (Hochschulen), offering an extensive variety of orders. A record number of 175,651 understudies were selected in the winter term of 2015/16 among them around 18% have a universal foundation. The three biggest colleges joined have roughly 100,000 enlisted understudies. There are the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) with 33,000 understudies, the Freie Universität Berlin (Free College of Berlin, FU Berlin) with around 33,000 understudies, and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) with 33,000 Understudies. The FU and the HU are a piece of the German Colleges Perfection Activity. The Universität der Künste (UdK) has around 4,000 understudies. The Berlin School of Financial matters and Law has an enlistment of around 10,000 understudies and the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (College of Connected Sciences for Building and Financial matters) of around 13,000 understudies.

The city has a high thickness of universally famous research establishments, for example, the Fraunhofer Society, the Leibniz Affiliation, the Helmholtz Affiliation, and the Maximum Planck Society, which are free of, or just inexactly associated with its colleges. In 2012, around 65,000 expert researchers were working in innovative work in the city.

Berlin is one of the information and advancement groups (KIC) of the European Establishment of Development and Innovation (EIT).The KIC is based at the Middle for Business enterprise at TU Berlin and has a concentration in the improvement of IT ventures. It is associated with major multinational organizations, for example, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP.