On Thursday, Sep 27th 2018, we got the amazing news that our application for the cluster of excellence Science of Intelligence got selected for funding within the German excellence funding program. Pawel Romanczuk and Jens Krause will contribute their expertise to explore principles of social and collective intelligence within the consortium of in total 21 PI’s from such different fields as biology, robotics, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, educational and computer science. The cluster will be also collaborating through strategic partnerships with the MIT Center for Brain, Minds and Machines and the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence , as well as various industry partners such as Amazon Development Center Germany. We are looking forward to seven years of cutting-edge research investigating principles of intelligence and building bridges between the various disciplines of intelligence research.