University Partnerships
As an international research university, the University of Bonn maintains a variety of excellent relationships with renowned higher education institutions from around the globe. As a result, the university’s international connections are extremely diverse: In addition to the numerous research collaborations of its scholars, institutes and faculties, the University of Bonn has also cultivated an impressive cross-faculty partnership network with over 70 higher education institutions worldwide. Moreover, the Erasmus program provides for lively exchange with over 300 European higher education institutions.
Partner Universities
A number of departments and institutes are involved in inter-faculty and university-wide partnership programs. Often with a long history, they have been established on a long-term footing. Many of these partnership agreements incorporate a student exchange program or shared degree programs and are centrally managed. The University of Bonn maintains especially close contacts with its six strategic partner universities.

Africa
- University of Ghana1 (Accra)
- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology KNUST2 (Kumasi)
- University of Nairobi (Nairobi)
- Université Internationale de Rabat5 (Rabat)
Asia
- Kabul University (Kabul)
- Hebrew University Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
- IDC Herzliya (Herzliya)
- Keio University17171616 (Tokyo)
- National Institutes for the Humanities18181717 (Tokyo)
- Rikkyo University19191818 (Tokyo)
- Sophia University20201919 (Tokyo)
- Tsukuba University 21212020(Ibaraki)
- University of Kyoto22222121 (Kyoto)
- Waseda University23232222 (Tokio)
- The University of Tokyo24242323 (Tokyo)
- National University Singapore25 (Singapore)
- Korea University (Seoul)
- Seoul National University (Seoul)
- Sogang University (Seoul)
- National Chengchi University (Taipeh)
- National Taiwan University (Taipeh)
- Tamkang University (Taipeh)
Australia/Oceania
- Australian National University (Canberra)
- University New South Wales (Sydney)
- The University of Melbourne (Melbourne)
Europe
- Collège de France353534 (Paris)
- Université Paris-Sorbonne 363635(Paris)
- Université de Strasbourg373736 (Strasbourg)
- Université de Toulouse383837 (Toulouse)
- University of Oxford40 (Oxford)
- University of St Andrews41 (St Andrews)
- Università degli Studi Firenze4141 (Florence)
- University of Luxembourg42 (Luxembourg)
- Wageningen University (Wageningen)
- Uniwersytet Warszawski4444 (Warsaw)
- Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego4545 (Warsaw)
- Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego4646 (Warsaw)
- Uniwersytet Wrocławski 4747(Wroclaw)
- Universidad de Leon (Leon)
- Universidad de Salamanca (Salamanca)
- University of Basel48 (Basel)
- Univerzita Karlova v Praze51 (Prague)
North America
- University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
- University of Northern British Columbia (Prince George, BC)
- University of Ottawa (Ottawa, ON)
- University of Toronto (Toronto, ON)
- McGill University (Montréal, QC)
- York University (Toronto, ON)
- Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
- Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
- Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA)
- Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
- Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)
- University of California (Berkeley, CA)
- University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)
- University of Kansas (Lawrence, KS)
- University of Missouri – St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
- University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM)
- University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, MS)
- University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN)
- University of Wisconsin (Madison, WI)
- Washington State University (Pullman, WA)
South Amerika
- Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul73 (Porto Alegre)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul74 (Porto Alegre)
- Universidad de Talca75 (Talca)
Other Cooperations and Networks
- United Nations University7676 (Tokyo, Bonn)
Within the scope of the Erasmus program, the University of Bonn cooperates at departmental level with more than 300 partner universities78787777 in Europe. Through Erasmus+ worldwide, there are further cooprations with partner universities in Israel, Ghana and Tanzania.
NeurotechEU is an alliance of eight leading European universities and over 250 partners from industry, academia and civil society that have set themselves the mission of building an innovative, trans-European network of excellence for brain research and technologies.
- Associate Supporter of the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) Tokyo818179
- Member of the Inter University Centre Dubrovnik (IUC)82
The various faculties and institutes at the University of Bonn maintain many of their own cooperation projects. More information about these projects can be obtained by directly contacting the respective faculty or institute.
Contact
Tina Odenthal
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Poppelsdorfer Allee 102
53115 Bonn (Germany)