Cooperation

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe, and the world: On all levels, the University of Hohenheim networks with partners who strengthen and complement its research and teaching offers. This includes many universities and research institutions with outstanding international reputations. One special aspect are the strategic networks in which the best of the best in a certain subject cooperate with the University of Hohenheim.

The University of Hohenheim has many different national cooperation projects. The cooperation partnerships shown are a selection and do not make any claim to completeness.


Institutionalized Cooperation

  • Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History (SMNS)
  • University of Stuttgart (Joint Bachelor’s degree program Food Chemistry and Master’s degree program Food Chemistry)
  • University of Stuttgart & PH Ludwigsburg (Cooperation in teacher education)
  • University of Tübingen (Center for Nutritional Medicine)
  • Curt-Engelhorn-Stiftung (Dendrochronological collection)

Cooperation in Networks

  • Humboldt reloaded (with the PH Freiburg, University of Freiburg, University of Tübingen;
    PH Heidelberg; HAW Potsdam; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
  • University alliance (with Ulm University, University of Stuttgart, University of Tübingen)
  • University region Tübingen-Hohenheim

Project-Related Cooperation

  • Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Competency cluster “Water & Earth System Science)
  • University of Stuttgart (network professorship Mathematics, especially Modeling Complex Biological Systems with the excellency cluster Simulation Technology (SimTech))
  • Fraunhofer Association (Biological Process Engineering)
  • “Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Sciences (MPG)” represented by the “Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP) (Cooperation in the area of plants)

Today, research is increasingly being done in so-called collaborative projects in which several scientists from several institutions work on a certain research question together for a set period of time. Such research projects can take place within institutionalized, project-related, or network cooperation partnerships. However, they can also take place with a low degree of organization. The research database gives an overview of the University of Hohenheim’s research projects.

Research database

Definition of cooperation

The University of Hohenheim’s cooperation partnerships with other scientific institutions in Germany and abroad take place in the following forms:

Institutionalized Cooperation:

  • Formalization with framework agreements
  • Validity usually for a long or unlimited period of time

Cooperation in Networks:

  • Several people or institutions cooperate with other actors without close coordination of internal processes or transferring competencies to third parties.
  • Formalized by declaration of intent or formulation of objectives

Project-Related Cooperation:

  • Made for particular cases
  • Legal basis; usually with individual contracts and agreements
  • Clearly defined time span for the start and end of the cooperation

On this, see: Hener Y., Eckardt P., Brandenburg U. (2007): Kooperationen zwischen deutschen Hochschulen, CHE Arbeitspapier Nr. 85, Gütersloh