The Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance (iFQ – Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung) is a scientific institution, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as a "central research facility".

The iFQ goals are:

• permanent monitoring and evaluation of the DFG funding activities
• analysis of general developments in the national and international research field
• provision of information on the results of research funded by the DFG
• establishment and networking of information resources

From these goals, three task complexes result:

• Research Information
  Provide general information about actors, projects, results and success of German research with the aid of data base-supported information systems
• Monitoring
  Permanent observation of developments in the field of publicly funded research based on a set of key data and indicators
• Quality Assurance
  The iFQ will use data generated in monitoring processes and special surveys to check the degree to which the goals of funding programmes have been achieved