UoC Global
The University of Cologne (UoC) sees itself as a globally active and interconnected university. UoC regards its research and teaching as a global responsibility for shaping the development of science and education, society and living conditions. Consequently, internationalization as a central issue of its strategic development and as a cross-sectional task in which all units of the University – from its headship over the faculties with their scholars, scientists, and students to the departments of the administration – work together and participate.
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.
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
Third-party Funded Partner Programs
Partnerships with Greek Universities
Programm zur Förderung von Partnerschaften mit Hochschulen in Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa sowie den Ländern der GUS
Partnership
Cologne-Thessaloniki
University partnership of the UoC with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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 promoting instrument of Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to create priority areas of research through the temporary establishment of Centres of Excellence, the advancement of interdisciplinary collaboration, and the promotion of early-stage researchers.
Clusters of Excellence
The funding line Clusters of Excellence is designed to support project-based funding in internationally competitive research fields at universities and university consortia. Clusters of Excellence are an important part of the strategic and thematic planning of the funded universities, hone their profiles and promote prioritisation.
Global Responsibility
Global Responsibility combines 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.
The UoC sees its research and teaching – embedded within the UN Sustainable Development Goals – in global responsibility for shaping the development of science and education, society, and living conditions. Active participation in European networks strengthens its global impact, contributes to shaping the European higher education and living landscape 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.
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.
As a new institution, it is - and will remain for some time - a work in progress: The first cluster and tandems will start their collaborations at the end of 2022, the information provided in the international directory will grow over time, and more events will be planned soon. If you would like to receive news from the CIF, please subscribe to our newsletter.