Universität Hamburg is the largest institution for research and education in the north of Germany. As one of the country's largest universities, it offers a diverse course spectrum and excellent research opportunities.

The University boasts numerous interdisciplinary projects in a broad range of subjects and an extensive partner network with leading institutions on a regional, national and international scale.

CEN

The Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) is a central research center at Universität Hamburg and part of the local network KlimaCampus Hamburg.

Members include oceanographers, meteorologists, marine biologists, geophysicists, geologists, soil scientists, geographers, biogeochemists, economists, social scientists, historians, as well as peace and security researchers, all of whom are actively engaged in climate, environmental, and earth system research. CEN therefore links the natural and social sciences—in research, research-driven education and support for young researchers. The goal is to work together to address overarching scientific issues.

CEN promotes the development and implementation of research projects and supports its members in the acquisition of external funding. The Center provides a forum aimed at educating both academia and the public about the challenges and findings of earth system research.

Participating in this project are the Institute of Oceanography, the Meteorological Institute and the Lothar Collatz Center for Computing in Science.

Roughly 23,000 people are currently active as students, teachers, researchers, or employees of the University of Bremen. It has become one of Germany`s eleven top universities of excellence. It is the science center of Northern Germany, renowned for its strengths in the sciences and engineering disciplines, as well as the humanities and the social sciences. The exceptional quality of research in Bremen is due, among other things, to the university’s close collaboration with numerous independent research institutes, both on campus and around the region. Their competence and vitality have attracted more than four hundred research and business ventures to the technology park around campus, creating a nationally recognized hub of high technology.

MARUM

Research at MARUM has the overarching goal to achieve a better understanding of key processes in the marine environment in order to provide information for sustainable use of the ocean. The research themes are: Ocean and Climate, Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions and Seafloor Dynamics. MARUM studies past and present environmental changes from the coast to the deep sea at a global scale. Processes at and below the seafloor are a special research focus. The second major goal of MARUM is the training of young scientists. Within the framework of the Graduate School GLOMAR (Bremen International Graduate School for Marine Sciences) interdisciplinary training of doctoral students in marine sciences (incl. social sciences and law) is achieved. A third goal is to develop and provide technology and infrastructure for marine research in cooperation with industry. MARUM operates underwater technologies, including two remotely operated vehicles, an underwater drill rig and an autonomous underwater vehicle. MARUM also operates one of the three IODP core repositories in the world and, together with the AWI, the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (PANGAEA). The fourth goal is the communication of scientific topics to the general public, including special programs for schools.

Participating in this project are the Institute of Environmental Physics and the "Dynamical systems and geometry" group of the mathematics department at Universität Bremen.

Constructor University is a private, English-language campus university with the highest standards in research and teaching. Young people from around the globe become citizens of the world with leadership qualities at Jacobs University in Bremen.

Participating in this project is the applied analysis group.

The Goethe University Frankfurt is a public university in Germany's fifth-most populous metropole of Frankfurt am Main in the State of Hesse and was founded in 1914 as a civic institution. The university currently has more than 45,000 students, distributed across four major campuses within the city.

Having a tradtionally strong focus on research, the university is affiliated with 20 Nobel Prize winners and 18 winners of the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. Besides its 16 faculties, there are three Max Planck research insitutions co-located at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Alongside the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Technische Universität Darmstadt, the Goethe University Frankfurt makes up the Rein-Main-Universities (RMU), an internationally visible academic network and part of the IT cluster Rhine-Main-Neckar. Being the largest IT Cluster in Europe and one of the most important locations of the IT and high-tech industry worldwide, it is also known as the Silicon Valley of Germany, thus providing excellent conditions for research, studying and innovation.

The Hamburg University of Technology is among Hamburg's most important universites. Since its foundation in 1978, the focus of the university's mission statement has been the development of technology for people. The TUHH is a compact technical university with a clear profile in research and innovative learning methods by the mergence of theory and practice and project-based learning. Being a competitive entrepreneurial, though at the same time research-oriented university with a strong international orientation, the university brings together technological cutting-edge research, application-oriented education and entrepreneurship.

The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a modern university with a tradition that goes back several centuries. The university offers almost 70 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes, making it one of the largest non-state universities in Germany. At KU, subject knowledge and social competence are taught on the foundation of Christian values. It is the only Catholic university in Germany; its sponsor is a church foundation. The university stands for excellent teaching, strong research and responsible action in society. Research at KU is diverse and reflects a wide range of research topics and subject areas.

Scientists at the MPI-M investigate what determines the sensitivity of the Earth system to perturbations such as the changing composition of its atmosphere, and work toward establishing the sources and limits of predictability within the Earth system. For that purpose MPI-M develops and analyses sophisticated models of the Earth system. Targeted in-situ measurements and satellite observations complement the model simulations.

Participating in this project are the groups "Atmosphere in the Earth System" and "Ocean in the Earth System".

The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde, IOW) was founded in 1992 on the recommendation of the German Council of Science and Humanities. It succeeded the Institute for Oceanography, Warnemünde, which was the premiere oceanographic research institute of the German Democratic Republic's German Academy of Sciences. Today, the institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, WGL). The institute's facilities are financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Ministry of Education. IOW's research program focuses on coastal oceans and marginal seas, with a particular emphasis on the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea.

Participating in this project is the "Coastal Ocean Physical Process Studies" group.

The Institute has been founded in 1992 and is member of the research association 'Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (WGL)'. The institute is located near the Baltic Sea resort Kühlungsborn and owns a separate site on the island Rügen, close to Juliusruh. In addition IAP is a major partner of the ALOMAR observatory in northern Norway. As associated institute of the University Rostock it is part of the teaching programme in physics. A total of about 90 persons is employed at IAP.

The Leibniz-Institute is one of the German main centers for Middle Atmosphere research and operates active cooperations with several international research organizations.

As an internationally respected centre of expertise on polar and marine research, the Alfred Wegener Institute is one of the very few scientific institutions in the world that are equally active in the Arctic and Antarctic. It coordinates German polar research efforts, while also conducting research in the North Sea and adjacent coastal regions in Germany. Combining innovative approaches, outstanding research infrastructure and years of expertise, the Alfred Wegener Institute explores nearly all aspects of the Earth system – from the atmosphere to the ocean floor. In this regard, initiatives to better grasp the climate-related processes on our planet have increasingly taken centre stage.

Participatin in this project are the departments of "Physical Oceanography" and "Climate Dynamics".

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon conducts international cutting-edge research for a changing world: approximately 1,100 employees generate knowledge and innovation toward more resilience and sustainability. The Hereon’s scientific spectrum encompasses high-performance materials, processes and environmentally friendly technologies for mobility and new energy systems. Furthermore, research is conducted on biomaterials in medicine and for increasing quality of life. Through research and consulting, the Hereon addresses the challenges of climate change in a solution-oriented manner and facilitates sustainable management as well as the protection of the coasts and marine environment through comprehensive scientific understanding. From fundamental understanding to practical applications – the interdisciplinary research spectrum covers a unique range.

The Hereon is one of eighteen scientific-technical and biological-medical centres comprising the largest German scientific research organisation, the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. The participating institute is the Hereon-Institute of Coastal Ocean Dynamics.