At the TU Dresden researchers from different fields work together with researchers from other universities and non-university research institutions in clusters. In the following some are named:

• DFG-AiF-Research Cluster: Lightweight and Textiles - Customized materials and technologies for the effective use of textile-reinforced plastic components (cluster 5 DFG and 6 IGF-research projects, 10 research institutions from Germany are involved)

• Teaching and Research Cluster eastsaxony - ÖBIN: ecosystems, biodiversity and sustainable spatial development (teaching and research collaborations in the field of environment in the university area of ​​Dresden and East Saxony)

• Research Cluster CSSI: energy storage - basic and key technology of the energy transition

• Research Cluster: battery competence center Dresden (inter-institutional collaboration of Fraunhofer, Leibniz, Helmholtz, Max Planck, together with the Universities of Dresden and Freiberg and domestic companies)

• research Cluster OncoRay 

• Cluster BioEconomy VP 1:11 DuraPressTimber - Compensation of timber by thermal modification and compression

• Cluster BioEconomy VP 1.12 Beechpole - Beech poles - poles molding and plywood in beech

• Tharandt Cluster: ICOS-D construction phase, ecosystem program

• Exzellenz Cluster 1056: Centre for Perspectives in Electronic Dresden - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (bis 2015)

• federal and state funded major projects