The telecom industry has mapped these functional areas in their Telecommunications Operational Map (eTOM) model, Banking in the Information Framework (IFW) and Emergency agencies in the Prevention Preparation Response and Recovery model (PPRR).
PEGNet was founded in 2005 as a joint initiative of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), its implementing agencies GIZ and KfW Entwicklungsbank as well as the universities of Göttingen and Frankfurt.
The Future Ocean is a Cluster of Excellence founded in November 2006 in line with the German excellence initiative by the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), the Muthesius Kunsthochschule (MKHS), the Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) and the Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung (GEOMAR).