CRC1601, entitled Habitats of massive stars across cosmic time, is a collaborative research center funded by German Science Foundation (DFG) at University of Cologne in collaboration with University of Bonn, MPI for Radioastronomy, Bonn and Research Center Jülich.

CCTS, the Cologne Center for THz Spectroscopy, is a DFG core facility project of the labora- tory astrophysics group at University of Cologne.

DYNAVERSE is a DFG funded Cluster of Excellence between the Universities of Cologne and Bonn, the Forschungszentrum Jülich, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, the German Aerospace Center and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies.