Collaboratively developed by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) and DAAD, Research Explorer is an online German research directory that contains over 19,000 institutes at German universities and non-university research institutions, searchable by geographic location, subject and other structural criteria.
To begin using the directory, go to: http://research-explorer.dfg.de/research_explorer.en.html