The Collaborative Research Centre 1368 has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2020. In addition to eight institutes at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, four institutes at Clausthal University of Technology and the Laser Zentrum Hannover e. V. are also involved in the CRC 1368. A total of around 40 researchers from various disciplines are working together in the CRC on the fundamentals of oxygen-free production processes.