The Institute cooperates nationwide with the most diverse universities. The Institute enjoys a particularly close connection with the TU Braunschweig; this is thanks firstly to the geographical proximity, and secondly through the joint appointment of the Head of the Institute with a W3 professorship for air traffic control.
A close cooperation also exists with the institute of the same name (IFF) at the TU Braunschweig. One example for this is the regular, jointly organized Kolloquium Flugführung (Flight Guidance Colloquium), in which external speakers give talks on differing areas of focus.
Furthermore, close connections have been formed to a number of universities concerning specific specialist topics. Examples include the University of Saarland (speech recognition technology), the TU Delft (exchange of students with diverse specialist subjects) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (field of “Human Performance Modeling”).