RING is currently funded by a worldwide consortium of universities and companies, including both international and national oil companies and service providers.

Companies (Jan. 2026 updated list) 

Universities (Jan 2025 updated list)

 

RING is currently funded by a worldwide consortium of universities and companies, including both international and national oil companies and service providers.

Companies (Jan. 2026 updated list) 

                             

Universities (Jan 2025 updated list)

Europe (49)

1. (ch) Basel University
2. (ch) ETH Zurich
3. (ch) Neuchatel University (CHYN)
4. (de) Bayerisches LfU Munchen
5. (de) BGE Bundesgesellschaft für Endlagerung
6. (de) BGR Hannover
7. (de) BUKEA Geological Survey Hamburg
8. (de) Bremen University Marum
9. (de) Darmstadt Technische Universität
10. (de) Geologischer Dienst NRW
11. (de) Goettingen University GZG
12. (de) Hessisches Landesamt für Umwelt und Geologie (HLNUG Wiesbaden) 
13. (de) IFG Geophysik Kiel University
14. (de) IFG Hannover University
15. (de) Karlsruher Institute für Technologie (KIT)
16. (de) LAGB Sachsen-Anhalt
17. (de) LBEG (NlfB Geological Survey) Hannover
18. (de) LBGR Brandenburg
19. (de) LGB MAINZ - Landesamt fur Geologie und Bergbau Rheinland-Pfalz
20. (de) LGRB Freiburg University
21. (de) LIAG Institut Hannover
22. (de) LUNG MV - Landesamt fur Umwelt, Naturschutz und Geologie
23. (de) Landesamt für Umwelt des Landes Schleswig-Holstein (LFUSH)
24.  (de)   LfULG Dresden - Sachsisches Landesamt fur Umwelt Landwirtschaft und Geologie
25. (de) Muenchen University
26. (de) TLUBN
27. (de) TU Munchen
28. (de) Senate Department for the Environment, Transport and Climate Protection
29. (dk) Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS)
30. (es) Barcelona University
31. (es) Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
32. (es) Institut Cartografic i Geologic De Catalunya (ICGC)
33. (fi) Helsinki University - Institute of Seismology
34. (fr) ARMINES - Paris School of Mines
35. (fr) Antilles University
36. (fr)  CNRS France - UNISTRA - ENS
37. (fr) Cergy Pontoise University
38. (fr) Geosciences Rennes UMR 6118
39. (fr) Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans (ISTO)
40. (fr) GET Toulouse
41. (fr) Pau University
42. (fr) Provence University Aix-Marseille
43. (it) Milano Bicocca University
44. (it) O.G.S. Trieste
45. (pl) Polish Geological Institute - National Research Institute - Warsaw
46. (pt) LNEG Porto Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia
47. (sl) Geological Survey of Slovenia
48. (uk) Heriot Watt University
49. (uk) Imperial College - London

Asia (5)

1. (cn) China University Geosciences WUHAN (CUG)
2. (cn) China University Of Petroleum (UPC)
3. (cn) Institute of Geology - China Earthquake Administration
4. (kr) KIGAM Korea
5. (kr) Pukyong National University (PKNU)

North America (11)

1. (ca) Alberta University
2. (ca) Geological Survey of Canada
3. (ca) INRS ETE
4. (ca) Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
5. (us) BEG Texas University at Austin
6. (us) Harvard Cambridge University
7. (us) Houston University - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
8. (us) LBL
9. (us) Stanford University
10. (us) Univ. California Santa Barbara ICS
11. (us) Washington and Lee University

South America (1)

 

 

1. (br) UNISINOS Brazil

Oceania (9)

 

1. (au) CSIRO
2. (au) Department of Water Western Australia
3. (au) Geological Survey of Western Australia
4. (au) Geosciences Australia
5. (au) Geological Survey of Victoria
6. (au) Mineral Resources Tasmania
7. (au) Department of Regional NSW - Resources
8. (au) Northern Territory Geological Survey
9. (nz) New Zealand Earth Science Institute (NZESI)