ACCESS is an independent research center associated with the RWTH Aachen. The strength of ACCESS resides in the expertise of its team in achieving advanced solutions in the field of development and/or optimization of Materials and Processes, with special focus on metallic materials and casting processes. 

The task of devising promising innovations should be shared jointly between scientists and entrepreneurs. Deutsche Telekom AG has opted for an approach which links these two worlds together. In collaboration with Technische Universität Berlin, it has established the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories on the TU Berlin campus.

In close cooperation with industry and research institutions, Braunschweig Research Airport, has proved itself to be a European test center working on feasibility, verification, validation and certification, in particular in the field of safety-critical traffic applications.

SAP Research's Campus-based Engineering Center (CEC) at the TU Darmstadt was founded in January 2005. The research work focuses on the working environment of the future.

For a short time the faculty of computer science at the TU Dresden is an official partner of THESEUS, a research program initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology (BMWi), with the goal of developing a new Internet-based infrastructure in order to better use and utilize the knowledge available on the Internet.in

The purpose of the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hameln/Emmerthal (ISFH) is the promotion and execution of research and development in the field of solar energy utilization.

Since 1985 the key busines of the Research Center for Information Technologies (FZI) has been to guide the modern enterprise to innovative solutions in information technologies and their applications.

The goal of the TU Munich’s branch in Ingolstadt is the creation of a regional centre of competence by means of a close cooperation with AUDI AG.  

Die umfangreichen Forschungsaktivitäten des Instituts für Raumfahrtsysteme (IRS) der Universität Stuttgart bilden die Grundlagen für weltweite Kontakte zu anderen Forschungs- und Universitätseinrichtungen sowie zu industriellen Partnern. Dabei hat der Technologietransfer aus der Raumfahrt in die industrielle Anwendung auf dem Gebiet der Plasmatechnologie bereits eine langjährige Tradition.