In 2002 the Bertelsmann Stiftung (Bertelsmann Foundation) initiated the “Qualification Program Science Journalism”, an extensive package of education and further education offers for journalists and scientists. Right from the beginning the professor for Science Journalism consultatively supported the project and took an active part in organizing seminars. The Bertelsmann Stiftung on the other hand has been funding the activities of the Chair of Science Journalism since 2005. Overall this led to a trustful partnership with the common goal to improve critical and competent science-journalistic coverage in Germany. At the time of project conclusion in 2007 the central findings and results of the project are to be published in a book. 

As the second huge partner the VolkswagenStiftung (Volkswagen Foundation) is also involved in the “Qualification Program Science Journalism”. At the Dortmund chair the VolkswagenStiftung especially supports projects concerning the internationalization of the course – among them, for example, an interdisciplinary education research project with ten students related to the Euroscience Open Forum in Munich in July 2006. It has also partly funded the evaluation and development of the curriculum “Medicine for Journalists”, which has been prepared in cooperation with the Universität Witten/Herdecke. 

The WDR (West German broadcasting corporation) telecast “Quarks & Co” with Ranga Yogeshwar is without doubt one of the most popular science formats in German television. For each of the elaborately designed telecasts a script is published – since summer 2005 in cooperation with the “Quarks seminar”, which has been established for this purpose at the Chair of Science Journalism. The students investigate, write texts for the script and the internet presence of the telecast, propose topics and deal out criticism. During the accompanying seminar the texts are edited. That way the students get an insight into the real production conditions and into the course of a professional scientific editorial office. 

Universität Witten/Herdecke cooperates with Universität Dortmund in respect to this course. In Witten/Herdecke Dortmund students with the study focus bioscience/medicine are educated in medicine. On this basis a tailor-made medicine curriculum for science journalists is to be further developed. Common lectures and the exchange of students are also part of the cooperation. 

“Communication scientifique et technique” is the name of the postgraduate course at Université Louis Pasteur where scientists are trained to become experts for scientific news. Their occupational fields can be science journalism but also work in a press office, in a museum or in specialist publishing houses. In February 2006 students from Strasbourg took part in a science-journalistic 6-day seminar together with Dortmund students from the Institute of Journalism. The "esprit franco-allemand "strongly influenced this seminar about genetic tests and ethics. In spring 2007 a neuroscientific project followed, which was held during the “Semaine du Cerveau” (Brain Awareness Week) in France. The German-French cooperation is continued in annual projects. 

The Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin (Bonn) engages in computer simulations in product and process development and is a strong partner in industry. SCAI designs and optimizes industrial applications and does calculations on high-performance computers. In the education research project “ESOF – Research Guide Europe” the institute has been cooperating with the Chair of Science Journalism since April 2006. After visiting the European science meeting ESOF 2006 in Munich future science journalists and students of journalism are producing a European science guide. The experts from Bonn support the students with an innovative professional web page.