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).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States Marine Corps | Russian Academy of Sciences | California Institute of Technology | Art Institute of Chicago | National Academy of Sciences | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Institute for Advanced Study | American Institute of Architects | Georgia Institute of Technology | marine | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Rochester Institute of Technology | Franklin Institute | Royal Institute of Technology | Pasteur Institute | Institute of Contemporary Arts | California Institute of the Arts | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Film Institute | Chinese Academy of Sciences | Pratt Institute | National Cancer Institute | Virginia Military Institute | Cato Institute | Australian Institute of Sport | Illinois Institute of Technology | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Curtis Institute of Music |