The Waterloo Centre for German Studies collaborates with a number of associations and institutions, among them:

- Austrian Embassy - Ottawa
- Canadian Association of University Teachers of German
- DAAD Canada (Toronto)
- Embassy of Switzerland in Canada (Ottawa)
- German Consulate General Toronto
- German Embassy Ottawa
- Goethe-Institut Toronto
- IDS Mannheim
- Limerick Centre for Irish-German Studies
- The Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific
And here is a list of German programs at universities around the world with which we have contacts:

- Queen's University - German
- University of Alberta - German Language and Literature
- The University of Auckland - German
- The University of British Columbia - Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies
- Universität Mannheim - Seminar für Deutsche Philologie
- University of Manitoba - Germanic and Slavic Studies
- University of Toronto - Germanic Languages and Literatures
- University of Victoria - Germanic and Slavic Studies
- University of Waterloo - Germanic and Slavic Studies