In the `Kompetenznetze Deutschland´ initiative, the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology groups together prominent innovation networks of the Federal Republic. At present the initiative holds 107 members covering 9 subject areas and 8 regions.
ITS Niedersachsen was already included in spring 2000 – after successful evaluation by the BMBF – as one of the first clusters in the online database “kompetenznetze.de”.