UoC Global
The University of Cologne (UoC) sees itself as a globally active and interconnected university. Its research and teaching – embedded within the UN Sustainable Development Goals – as a global responsibility for shaping the development of science and education, society and living conditions. Active participation in global networks strengthens its impact, contributes to shaping the higher education and living landscapes and provides impulses and global competence also for local activities and initiatives. This brings with it a responsibility to continuously develop one’s own institution, which is promoted through competent participation in all areas addressed.
Our Global Responsibility Projects combine internationalization with third mission in order to spread and transfer the knowledge generated by the University of Cologne in our local, regional and global networks and contribute to global change. Global Responsibility expresses thereby an attitude, which defines the role and the motivation of a university to act globally. It emphazises that all actions have a global impact which every individual should be aware of. It is the task of a university to generate and spread knowledge in order to overcome outdated concepts and raise global awareness.
Overview
Strategy and Structure
Institutional Structure
Regional Offices & DWIH
Networks
EUniWell
Die European University for Well-Being an der Universität zu Köln
Coimbra Group
Das Netzwerk von 41 renommierten europäischen Universitäten
European University Association
The European University Association (EUA) represents more than 850 universities and national rectors’ conferences in 49 European countries.
China-NRW University Alliance
Fünf Spitzenuniversitäten aus NRW bündeln ihre Interessen, um die Beziehungen zu den Partnern in China zu stärken
Ghana-NRW University Alliance
A consortium of six universities from North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) aiming to foster academic excellence and promote research collaboration with universities in Ghana
Scholars at Risk Network
The network is engaged around the globe to support threatened scholars and academic freedom.
UNITE Cologne
University Network for Internationalisation in Teacher Education Cologne
Eastern Partnership University Cluster
Consortium of universities from the European Union and the Eastern Partnership countries systematically expanding cooperation in education, science, and research
Türk Alman Üniversitesi / Türkisch-Deutsche Universität
The Turkish state university is supported by Germany through a consortium of 38 German universities, including the UoC, and the DAAD.
UNIMED – Mediterranean Universities Union
Network of Higher Education and Research Institutions, active in promoting academic cooperation in the Euro-Mediterranean region and in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Middle East and in Western Balkans.
Partnerships
Expanding internattional networks and partnerships and developing strategies and instruments to use them fruitfully at all levels of academic life, thus promoting its own transformation process, is at the heart of the UoC’s internationalization efforts. Comprehensive cooperation in research, teaching, and campus management is intensified with a limited number of selected networks and universities. Within the framework of these networks and partnerships, the UoC strives for particularly close networking, e.g. through the intensive exchange of students, doctoral researchers, scholars and scientists, and administrative staff, through joint courses, study programmes and virtual cooperation as well as through joint research and third-party funded projects.
University-wide Partnerships
Partner universities that have signed university-wide MoUs for the exchange of students or researchers with the University of Cologne
Faculty-wide Partnerships
Extensive network of partner universities at the individual faculty level
Faculty Exchange via University-Wide Partnerships
Many University-wide Partnership Agreements include arrangements with view to basic funding for faculty exchange.
Specific Research Partnerships
Strategic Research Partners
Ausgewählte internationale Partner der sechs Kernprofilbereiche der UzK
Global Faculty
Herausragende internationale Forschende
International Research Hubs
Key Profile Areas (KPAs)
Thematically focused Key Profile Areas with critical mass and impact that explore scientifically and socially relevant topics. The Key Profile Areas already demonstrate proven scientific excellence and form the core of the University of Cologne's research profile. They also benefit from strong networks and close cooperation with regional non-university institutions and partners from industry.
Collaborative Research Centres
The CRCs of the German Research Foundation (DFG) are long-term research institutions at universities, designed to last up to twelve years, in which scientists work together within the framework of an interdisciplinary research program. They enable innovative, demanding, elaborate and long-term research projects to be carried out by coordinating and concentrating people and resources at the applicant universities. In this way, they serve to establish institutional priorities and structures.
Clusters of Excellence
Clusters of Excellence are an essential component of the Excellence Strategy of the German Federal and State Governments and have served to fund internationally competitive research fields at outstanding university locations and support cutting-edge research at German universities, which are primarily used to recruit top international researchers, to train early-career scholars and scientists, for research-related teaching and to build up infrastructures.
Cologne International Forum (CIF)
The Cologne International Forum (CIF) was established in 2022 in order to offer a platform to showcase, foster, and bring together the existing international activities in research and teaching at the University of Cologne and to stimulate new innovative, international cooperations.