GEFRA cooperates with various university institutes or private institutions. A close cooperation partner in our network is the MR Gesellschaft für Regionalberatung (MR), Bremen. MR was and is partner in evaluation projects concerning the "new" German federal states and Northrhine-Westfalia as well as in various cost-benefit analyses for major projects.

• Cambridge Econometrics - CE
• CRENOS, Centro Ricerche Economiche Nord Sud, Cagliari
• ESRI – Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin
• Deloitte Business Consulting GmbH
• Department of Business at the University of Applied Sciences Bochum
• DIW - German Institute for Economic Research
• FBAE - Research Center for Vocational Training, Labour Market and Evaluation  
• IAB - Institute for Employment Research
• ies - Institute for Development Planning and Structural Research at the University of Hannover
• Ifo - Institute for Economic Research, Munich
• IfS – Institute for Urban Research and Structure Policy ltd., Berlin
• insl - Lehrstuhl Stadttechnik an der BTU Cottbus
• IVM - Institute for Transport Sciences - University of Münster
• IREAS - Institut pro strukturální politiku, o.p.s.
• IWH - Halle Institute for Economic Research
• Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Graz
• MR - Institute for Regional Consultancy ltd., Delmenhorst
• NEI – National Economic Insitute, Rotterdam
• Ruhr University Bochum - Faculty of Economic Policy
• Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Essen
• TraSt – Transformation and Structure Development, Munich, Dresden
• Weber Shandwick
• WIFO – Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Vienna