Their broad spectrum of disciplines allows the RMU to investigate future key questions.

At the same time, they are developing research foci of high international visibility. They are creating networks across disciplines and are shaping the Rhine-Main area as a globally attractive and competitive academic region.

In addition to numerous highly visible institutions that conduct third-party funded collaborative research, including more than two dozen DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers and Transregios, each of which significantly involves two or all three of RMU's universities, as well as vital subject- and topic-driven networks, this scientific area is also represented by the projects with which the RMU member universities participate in the competition of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments.