Catalysis by noble metals is still extremely important for the industrial production of chemicals, [1] in catalytic converters, [2] and in new areas of energy generation (e.g. fuel cells [3] ) and storage (e.g. batteries [4] ). Since the supplies of these metals are limited and their prices continuously increase, the search for new classes of catalytic materials, such as cheap and abundant oxides, [5] and significant improvement of the performance of existing metal catalyst systems is indispensable.An attractive option in this context is the use of the support as a co-catalyst; in other words, shifting the main task of the support from ensuring sufficient particle dispersion to participating in the catalytic cycle. Particularly interesting in this respect are so-called strong metal-support interactions (SMSI) which have been the subject of a number of catalytic studies since their discovery in the 1970s.[6] Many different transition-metal oxides, such as TiO 2 , [7] CeO 2 , [8] and WO 3 [9] are known to show a SMSI effect which can strongly influence the electronic structure of metal catalysts and even lead to thin oxide layers covering the metal nanoparticles.[10] While in some cases (e.g. toluene hydrogenation on Pt/TiO 2 [11] ) the SMSI effect was found to decrease the overall catalytic activity (by diminishing the number of active sites through encapsulation of the metal particles by the oxide), in other cases it can considerably improve activity (e.g. CO oxidation on Pt/TiO 2 [12] ). Such synergism can for instance result from the fact that the oxide provides special adsorption sites at the perimeter of the particles, [11] induces a different particle morphology, [7] or delivers active species.[12] Since CO oxidation on Pt, for instance, suffers from the fact that CO is strongly bound to Pt and thus poisons the surface so that O 2 cannot adsorb at low temperatures, a supply of oxygen by the support should improve the performance drastically. Indeed, this type of SMSI effect was recently observed: [13] The interaction of Pt with FeO, which delivers oxygen at the border between the two constituents, was exploited in the development of a very efficient catalyst for PROX (preferential oxidation of CO in the presence of hydrogen) which already works at room temperature. Besides the possible contribution of subsurface Fe, [14] the active site was discussed to be a highly reduced FeO layer on Pt, while hydrogen is necessary to replenish these reduced sites. [13] Although the potential of SMSI is clear and industrial companies are already benefitting from such catalysts, rational concepts to generate and tune SMSI are still largely missing in the literature. One possible strategy is the use of supported preformed colloidal nanoparticles instead of metal precursors which are assembled into particles only in subsequent steps on the surface. Here, spacers between the catalytic particle and the support in the form of organic ligands can be employed which can possibly mediate the interaction between the metal and the sup...