Clusters of Excellence

Since 2019, the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments  has been continuing under the Excellence Strategy. Currently four Clusters of Excellence are being funded at the University of Cologne for a period of seven years. The Clusters ECONtribute and ML4Q started in 2019. CECAD has been funded since 2005, CEPLAS since 2012.

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 integral part of the strategic and thematic planning of the funded universities, which serve to accentuate their profiles and promote priority setting.