Science in Cologne

The CECAD Cluster of Excellence conducts research into the molecular mechanisms of aging. Its objective is to identify new therapeutic approaches to ageing-associated diseases. Opened in 2013, the CECAD Research Center is an important milestone in scientific communication and collaboration at the University, the University Hospital, the Max Planck Institutes for the Biology of Aging and for Metabolic Research, as well as the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases.

CEPLAS  a Cluster of Excellence in Plant Sciences, conducts research into how plants adapt to environmental conditions and assesses how these findings can benefit agriculture. The CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence is a joint project between Heinrich Heine University, the University of Cologne, the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Cologne, and the Research Center Jülich.

ceres is a center for interdisciplinary research, education, training, and consulting with a focus on issues that are socially relevant for the health sector. It also manages a network of scientists from Germany and abroad. Ceres involves five faculties of the University of Cologne and focuses on aging and demographic change, health literacy in complex environments, and digital transformation. Its specifically interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach makes it possible to bundle research that has hardly been linked to date and thus to gain knowledge that is both overarching and relevant to practice.

ECONtribute is a joint research initiative of the University of Cologne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The aim of the initiative is to address contemporary societal challenges, such as digitalization and political polarization. The researchers' main areas of expertise include ethics, business administration, social policy, and law. ECONtribute also promotes dialogue between researchers and political decision-makers.

Also funded by Excellence funding, the GSSC researches social, economic, political, and cultural changes in the countries of the Global South – with the goal of making these developments more visible and calling for new options for action to address current and future global challenges.

The aim of the ML4Q joint project between the Universities of Cologne, Aachen, Bonn and the Jülich Research Centre is to create new computer and network architectures based on the principles of quantum mechanics. Quantum computers promise computing power that is many times greater than the computing power of classical computers. As a result, quantum computers can offer great benefits in very complex fields of application such as materials research, pharmaceuticals or artificial intelligence.

• CBS International Business School
• Deutsche Hochschule für Gesundheit & Sport
• Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (DSHS)
• Europäische Fachhochschule EU | FH
• Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
• Fachhochschule des Mittelstands (FHM)
• FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management
• HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• HMKW Hochschule für Medien Kommunikation und Wirtschaft
• Hochschule Döpfer University of applied sciences
• Hochschule für angewandtes Management
• Hochschule für Musik und Tanz
• Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• Hochschule Fresenius
• IB Hochschule für Gesundheit und Soziales
• INU Innovative University of Applied Sciences
• ISM International School of Management
• IU Internationale Hochschule
• Katholische Hochschule NRW
• Kolping Hochschule für Gesundheit und Soziales
• Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
• Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation
• Rheinische Hochschule
• Technische Hochschule Köln
• Universität zu Köln

• Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)
• ESA European Space Agency
• European Transonic Windtunnel (ETW)
• GESIS Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
• Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft
• IQWiQ Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen
• Max-Planck-Institute für die Biologie des Alterns
• Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung
• Max-Planck-Institut für Stoffwechselforschung
• Max-Planck-Institut für Pflanzenzüchtungsforschung
• Universitätsklinikum Köln
• ZB MED Informationszentrum Lebenswissenschaften

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Cologne is a centre of science that has 23 institutions of higher learning, each of which has its own area of research expertise. They range from the TH Köln (university of applied sciences) and its GameLab to the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (music and dance academy) and the Cologne Business School. Each research centre is an important driving force of innovation in its specific area.

Cologne is the centre of science for the Rhineland and its multifaceted landscape of universities and research institutes give it a thematically broad range of research fields. The research expertise in the city extends from aerospace research to the life sciences, and much more besides.

Cologne has the third-largest number of university students in Germany. It has a total of 106,000 university students, which puts it right behind Berlin and Munich. Prospective students are attracted to the Rhineland especially by special fields such as gaming, business, and aerospace research.