Official University Partnerships

Brazil:

Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza (since 1990)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Claudius Armbruster; Arts & Humanities

Bulgaria:

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia (since 1985)
Senate appointee:
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Speer; Arts & Humanities

China:

Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (since 2005)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Dietrich Soyez; Mathematics & Natural Sciences

Fudan-Universität, Shanghai (since 2010)
Senate appointee:
N.N. 

France:

Université d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand I (since 1962)
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II (since 1980)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Nitsch; Arts & Humanities

Greece:

Aristotelio Panepistimo, Thessaloniki (since 1992)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Addicks; Medicine

India:

Japan:

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (since 1987)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Mark Ebers; Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Keio University, Tokyo (since 1981)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Gudlaugur Thorbergsson; Law

Poland:

Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Breslau (since 2003)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Gerd Meyer; Mathematics & Natural Sciences

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski w Krakowie, Krakow (since 1990)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Otto Depenheuer; Law

Russia:

Gorkij Literaturnyj Institute, Moscow
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Bodo Zelinsky,  Arts & Humanities

Volgograd State University (since 1993)
Senate appointee:
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Obst; Arts & Humanities

Spain

Universidad de Sevilla
Senate appointee:
N.N. 

The Czech Republic:

Charles University, Prague (since 1999)
Senate appointe:
Prof. Dr. Walter Pape; Arts & Humanities

Turkey:

Istanbul Üniversitesi, Istanbul (since 2003)
Senate appointe:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Koebke; Medicine

USA:

University of California, Berkeley, CA 
Senate appointe:
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel; Law

Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA (since 2001)
Senate appointe:
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Peter Mansel; Law

Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA (since 1961)
Faculty appointe:
Prof. Dr. Udo Koppelmann; Management, Economics & Social
Sciences 

Cooperations and Exchanges 

Alongside the official university partnerships, the University of Cologne is also in close touch with a vast network of partner universities in over fifty countries across the globe.
These ties are overseen by the faculties themselves or their Centres for International Relations (ZIBs), as well as by the International Office.