- DFG (largest independent research funding organisation in Germany)
- German Development Institute (DIE)
- German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
- National Aeronautics and Space Research Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany (DLR)
- Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena - University of Applied Sciences
- Helmholtz Association, Germany
- Institute for transformative Sustainability Research (IASS)
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)
- Queen's University Management School
- Roskilde University
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- VDI Centre for Resource Efficiency GmbH (VDI ZRE)
- Volkswagen Foundation (German research funding organisation)