Scientists at MPQ are in close cooperation with other research institutes and universities in Germany as well as in other countries. The most important ones are named below.

Third-Party Funds Projects and other National Projects

The MPQ is involved in a couple of national collaborations among which DFG projects are of special importance. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) is the central, self-governing research funding organization. Its goal is to promote research at universities and other publicly financed research institutions by funding research projects and facilitating cooperation among researchers.

• Collaborative Research Centre 631 (SFB 631)
• DFG Project 635 (FOR 635)
• Coherent X-ray source for the generation and charakterization of nanostructures (KORONA)

Clusters of Excellence

The 'Clusters of Excellence' initiative, set up by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, aims to promote top-level international scientific research in Germany. The individual projects involve partners from universities and industry. The MPQ participates in two of the Clusters of Excellence, each approved in October 2006: 

• Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics (MAP)
• Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)

EU Projects

A selection of the most important projects sponsered by EU is listed below:

• Scalable Quantum Computing with Light and Atoms (SCALA)
• Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)
• Laserlab Europe
• EURATOM
• Homepage EU-Office

International Cooperations

The MPQ is embedded in a worldwide scientific network.  It hosts around 60 scientists from around 30 countries on four continents. As a result the MPQ has a distinctly international flair.

Of special importance are the following bi- and multinational cooperations:

 

• International Cooperative Research Project (ICORP)
• James Franck programm
• MPQ-KSU cooperation

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