The University of Göttingen, the University Medical Center Göttingen and seven local non-university research institutions, including four Max Planck institutes, have cooperated to build up the Göttingen Campus in a collaborative effort consciously shaped over a period of years.

• University of Göttingen
• University Medical Center Göttingen
• The Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony
• German Aerospace Center
• German Primate Center
• MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization
• MPI for Solar System Research
• MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
• MPI for Multidisciplinary Science

The Göttingen Campus is complemented by Associate Partners in the form of commercial enterprises and further public institutions. The partnership is based on common interests, supporting structures, voluntarily entered commitments, physical proximity and trust.

• Fraunhofer ITMP – Translational Neuroinflammation and Automated Microscopy TNM
• Georg Eckert Institute (GEI)
• HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts
• Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
• KWS SAAT SE
• Institut für Nanophotonik Göttingen e.V. (IFNANO)
• Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK Gatersleben)
• Measurement Valley e.V.
• Northwest German Forest Research Institute (NW-FVA)
• Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA
• PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
• PHYWE Systeme GmbH & Co. KG
• Sartorius AG
• Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI)
• Volkswagen AG