Further Partnerships

Collaborations in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region

• BO-I-T (Bochum)
• CAIS (Bochum)
• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt / German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• EIN Quantum NRW
• h2-netzwerk-ruhr e.V. (Ruhr-Region)
• Research Institute for regional and urban development (Dortmund)
• Stem Cell Network NRW

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems IEG (Bochum)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML (Dortmund)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT (Oberhausen)
• Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems IWES (Bremerhaven – Außenstelle Bochum)

Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

• Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich)

Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

• German Mining Museum, Bochum (Leibniz Association research institute on the history of mining)
• ISAS – Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy (Dortmund)
• Leibniz-Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung gGmbH IUF (Düsseldorf)
• RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (Essen)

Max-Planck-Institute

• Max-Planck Institute for molecular Physiology (Dortmund)
• Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (Mülheim)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung (Mülheim)
• Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (Düsseldorf)
• Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (Bochum)

Cooperations Outside the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region

• Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR (Wachtberg)
• Fraunhofer High performance centers
• Initiative Transparente Tierversuche
• Johannes-Rau Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Max Planck Schools

Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

• Helmholtz Energy Alliance (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
• Information & Data Science Schools, Research Schools
• Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH GSI (Darmstadt)
• Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH HZB (Berlin)

Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

• Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences GESIS (Mannheim)
• Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics IHP GmbH (Frankfurt)
• Leibniz Wissenschaftscampi

Affiliated Institutes

Ruhr University Bochum has ten affiliated institutes, so-called An-Institutes. An-Institutes are legally, organisationally and economically independent scientific institutions that are recognized as institutions at Ruhr University Bochum and cooperate with Ruhr University. The independence of the institution is not affected by this.