The Faculty of Medicine's CCFs are available to internal users, cooperation partners and external users. The individual groups are defined as follows:

Internal users: All employees of the Faculty of Medicine, including visiting scientists and scholarship holders of the University of Cologne
Cooperation partners: Non-university research institutions with which a cooperation agreement exists (e.g. MPG, DZNE, DLR); collaborative projects, e.g. within a CRC
External users: All other users

The Central Core Facilities are organised by a coordination office, which is responsible for strategic and operational development.

The individual core facilities are managed by a scientific and a technical management team and supported in terms of content and strategy by a focus group.

At regular intervals, the focus group discusses the current key figures of the core facility and possible improvements and makes recommendations to the Dean's Office via the Advisory Board (representation of the Dean's Office, academic heads of the core facilities, CCF coordinator).

Mentioning the use of our core facilities in your publications is an important indicator for us and crucial for maintaining funding and further investment. Users are therefore obliged to mention the core facility in a publication.

The type of acknowledgement/consideration depends on the scope of the services provided by the respective core facility. In accordance with the DFG's utilisation guidelines (Chapter 13.1 Obligation to publish), the CCF and the projects funded by the DFG should be included in the acknowledgements in the following form:

"We acknowledge [name person] and the Central Core Facility [name Core Facility] at the Medical Faculty, University of Cologne for the support in acquisition (and analysis) of the data funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer(n) [project number]."

Core Facilities whose equipment was funded by a DFG Major Instrumentation Grant provide the respective project numbers on their website. If a core facility does not provide a project number, the same acknowledgement must still be used, without specifying the project number. If the work carried out by the core facility goes beyond the usual technical support and includes, for example, the development of new methods, experimental design, extensive evaluation or similar, the employees of the core facility involved must be named as co-authors, taking into account good scientific practice.