List of Partner Institutions

Founded in 1737, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is a research university of international renown with strong focuses in research-led teaching. The University is distinguished by the rich diversity of its subject spectrum particularly in the humanities, its excellent facilities for the pursuit of scientific research, and the outstanding quality of the areas that define its profile. From 2007 to 2012 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen was rewarded funding from the Initiative of Excellence of the German Federal and State Governments with its institutional strategy for the future entitled “Göttingen.Tradition – Innovation – Autonomy”. The University was able to realise all measures of the concept. Now Göttingen University will develop the successfully established measures further to continously advance the University’s positive developments in research and teaching. 

Goethe University Frankfurt is one of the largest and most renowned universities in Germany, founded in1914 and named after Germany's most famous poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was a native of Frankfurt in the 18th century. GU is a comprehensive public research university that offers a huge variety of degree programs to its approximately 48.000 students, and world-class research to address the most pressing questions of our time. It has 5 campuses, the main one is the leafy Campus Westend, one of the most beautiful in Europe.

The city of Frankfurt, with its highly diverse population of 750,000, offers an intriguing mix: a global financial metropolis in the heart of both Germany and Europe, with one of the world's busiest airports, yet also city of short distances that is easy to get around, with many parks and a beautiful river front. There's also a huge number of museums and galleries, a bustling night life and tasty international and local cuisine.

<Source: Global Office, Goethe University Frankfurt>

The University of Münster (German: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The WWU has also been successful in the German government's Excellence Initiative.

With almost 40,000 students and over 130 fields of study in 15 departments, it is Germany's third largest university and one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life. The university offers a wide range of subjects across the sciences, social sciences and the humanities. Several courses are also taught in English, including PhD programmes as well as postgraduate courses in geoinformatics, geospational technologies or information systems.

Professors and former students have won nine Leibniz Prizes, the most prestigious as well as the best-funded prize in Europe, and one Fields Medal.