Cochrane Deutschland

What Cochrane Deutschland does

Cochrane Deutschland operates a hybrid non-profit revenue and access model. Direct institutional income consists of grants from BMG and Universitätsklinikum Freiburg; downstream commercial revenue flows through Wiley-mediated licensing of the Cochrane Library, including the multi-year HEBIS consortium license (2020–2026) covering German academic institutions, plus access via EBSCO and Ovid for international markets, and free access arrangements for select German medical associations and WFSJ-member journalists. Its customer segments span healthcare professionals, patients and the general public, medical students and researchers, academic institutions, and—indirectly—medical guideline organizations; GTM is primarily event- and content-driven (workshops, webinars, social media, press, Cochrane Kompakt, and the Wissen was wirkt blog) rather than sales-led.

Name

Cochrane Deutschland

Legal name

Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung

Website

https://cochrane.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung is the German national center of the Cochrane collaboration, producing and disseminating systematic healthcare evidence reviews. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Health and University Medical Center Freiburg, it serves clinicians, patients, researchers, and academic institutions across German-speaking regions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Evidence-Based Medicine Research Services

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Global Health Research, Evidence & Technical Assistance Organizations (HLAJAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Medical, Clinical & Biomedical Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAB)

Keywords

• Systematic reviews
• Evidence-based medicine
• Healthcare research
• Clinical guidelines
• Medical evidence

Headquarters

HQ city

Freiburg

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Foundation Funding: Cochrane Deutschland Stiftung is funded by the Federal Ministry of Health (Bundesministerium für Gesundheit) and the University Medical Center Freiburg. Established in 2017 as an independent, non-profit foundation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Cochrane Deutschland operates the German national center of the Cochrane collaboration, producing and disseminating high-quality systematic reviews on healthcare interventions through the Cochrane Library database. The organization also delivers educational workshops, webinars, and methodological training on evidence synthesis, systematic reviews, and GRADE methodology to healthcare professionals and researchers across German-speaking regions.

Product overview

Cochrane Deutschland is the German national center of Cochrane, an international research network that has been producing systematic reviews for over 30 years. The organization's core product is the Cochrane Library, published by Wiley, which comprises the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), CENTRAL, and Cochrane Clinical Answers. These resources provide high-quality, independent evidence summaries that form a central foundation of evidence-based medicine, with over 80% of medical guidelines worldwide incorporating Cochrane Reviews. Cochrane Deutschland operates as a platform-plus-services model: while the Cochrane Library database serves as the core evidence resource, the organization supplements it with educational workshops (covering systematic review creation, meta-analysis, and GRADE methods), German-language access through Cochrane Kompakt, plain language summaries for patients, and webinar series such as Lunch & Learn and Spotlight on Methods. The organization also provides methodological support and training to facilitate systematic review authorship.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cochrane Library A collection of databases containing high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. It includes the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Cochrane Clinical Answers, published by Wiley and accessible through institutional subscriptions.
• Workshops & Training Programs Educational workshops covering systematic review creation, literature searching, critical appraisal, meta-analysis methods, and GRADE methodology for healthcare professionals and researchers. Includes direct registration-based training programs.
• Lunch & Learn Webinars Short webinars providing ongoing education on evidence-based medicine topics and systematic review methodology, offered as recurring educational sessions.
• Spotlight on Methods Webinars

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 80% of medical guidelines are based in part on Cochrane Reviews

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

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Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cochrane HaematologycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEditorial Base of Cochrane Haematology is located at University Hospital Cologne as a working group for evidence-based medicine of Clinic I for Internal Medicine, and at Oxford University as part of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
• Cochrane Metabolic and Endocrine DisorderscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEditorial Base located at the Institute for General Medicine of University Hospital Düsseldorf (Heinrich-Heine-Universität), Germany.
• Cochrane Public HealthminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCochrane Public Health works with individuals and teams internationally to produce and publish Cochrane Reviews on the effects of public health interventions at the population level.
• AWMF e.V. (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with AWMF to support evidence-based guidelines development in Germany.
• Deutsches Netzwerk Gesundheitskompetenz e.V. (DNGK)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to promote health literacy and accessible health information in Germany.
• Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin e.V. (EBM-Netzwerk)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with the Evidence-Based Medicine network to promote EBM in Germany.
• Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen (IQWiG)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care for evidence-based healthcare decisions.
• Universitätsklinikum Freiburg - Institut für Evidenz in der MedizincoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Institute for Evidence in Medicine at University Medical Center Freiburg houses Cochrane Deutschland and provides the organizational base for its operations.
• Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity partnership for research and education in evidence-based medicine.
• HEBIS-KonsortiumcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorConsortium license for academic institutions in Germany (2020-2026) for access to the Cochrane Library through Wiley.
• Wiley (Publisher)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWiley is the publisher of the Cochrane Library, containing Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), CENTRAL, and Cochrane Clinical Answers.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Wiley: Wiley is the exclusive publisher of the Cochrane Library and a channel partner for Cochrane Deutschland. It is comparable as the distribution infrastructure for Cochrane's content and is integral to the foundation's licensing and access strategy, but operates as a commercial publishing incumbent rather than a peer organization.

Direct peers

• AWMF (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Wissenschaftlichen Medizinischen Fachgesellschaften): AWMF is the German association of scientific medical societies that coordinates clinical practice guideline development in Germany. It is a named partner of Cochrane Deutschland and shares the mission of producing evidence-based guidelines, though focused on coordinating societies rather than producing reviews itself.
• Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI): JBI is an international research organization producing systematic reviews and evidence-based resources for healthcare, headquartered at the University of Adelaide. It is closely comparable in mission and methodology to Cochrane, with similar training programs and review publication.
• Campbell Collaboration: Campbell Collaboration produces systematic reviews on social interventions (education, crime, social welfare) using methods aligned with Cochrane. It is a sibling evidence synthesis organization with comparable methodological standards, governance, and global network structure.
• Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), Oxford: CEBM at the University of Oxford is a leading academic center for evidence-based medicine research and teaching. It is comparable in its methodological focus on evidence synthesis and offers similar training programs to Cochrane Deutschland.
• IQWiG (Institut für Qualität und Wirtschaftlichkeit im Gesundheitswesen): Germany's Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care produces independent evidence-based reports to inform German healthcare decisions. IQWiG is a direct peer and named partner of Cochrane Deutschland, performing overlapping evidence synthesis functions in the German healthcare system.
• GRADE Working Group: The GRADE Working Group develops the methodology that Cochrane Deutschland uses for assessing the quality of evidence and strength of recommendations. It is a closely related methodology body that Cochrane Deutschland teaches in its GRADE workshops.
• Cochrane: Cochrane is the international parent network of which Cochrane Deutschland is the German national center. Both produce Cochrane systematic reviews, train reviewers, and operate under the same evidence-based medicine methodology.

Broad incumbents

• NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence): NICE is the UK's larger evidence-based healthcare guidance body, producing clinical guidelines and technology appraisals that frequently incorporate Cochrane Reviews. It is comparable in its evidence-based mandate but operates at much greater scale and incorporates broader health technology assessment functions.
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): AHRQ is the US federal agency that produces evidence-based research and clinical practice guidelines. It is comparable in evidence synthesis mission and government backing but operates at a much larger scale as part of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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