Project Partners
SAN (Project Coordinator)
University of Social Sciences is the largest private educational institution in Poland, with more than 30 years of experience. We provide high-quality education to students from all over the world. The University offers a wide range of Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in major cities in Poland. Our offer also includes MBA and PhD studies. In the educational rankings, published by the influential national magazines our University is placed very high.
Website https://san.edu.pl/
Spectrum Research Centre
Spectrum Research Centre (SRC) is a not-for-profit research centre established to create a space where research and educational findings can be validated through local actions focused on community impact. We support young academics to trial and test their research hypotheses in ‘living laboratory’ environments. As the company grows, we are committed to providing researchers, trainers, and educationalists with opportunities to give their work and practice a European perspective. The main policy focus areas for SRC are:
- Social Policy – integration of marginalized groups; unconscious bias and its impact on migrant integration; social media and xenophobia.
- Environmental Policy – circular economy and habitat protection; carbon neutral tourism; business modelling for circular economies; comedy for climate change.
- Education Policy – the threat of remote education to university research; serious games for addressing serious issues; cross-sector funding streams for education, gamification as an engagement strategy for digital natives.
SRC is also active in the wider community and due to the expertise in local development within the company it provides consultancy services to a wide range of organizations right across the economic landscape.
Website: https://spectrumresearchcentre.com/
The University of the Basque Country (EHU) (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) – is the main public university of the Basque Autonomous Community in northern Spain. It was officially established in 1980 and has since become a key institution for higher education and research in the region.
UPV/EHU operates campuses across all three Basque provinces—Bizkaia (including Leioa, Bilbao, Portugalete and Barakaldo), Gipuzkoa (San Sebastián and Eibar), and Álava (Vitoria-Gasteiz)—offering a broad range of academic facilities and urban environments.
The university serves around 45,000 students and employs about 5,000 academic staff, providing education in Basque, Spanish, and increasingly in English. Its academic catalog includes over 60 bachelor’s degrees, more than 100 official master’s programs, and numerous PhD options, covering fields such as science, engineering, arts, social sciences, health, and business.
UPV/EHU is also a major research hub: it conducts a significant portion of the Basque Country’s scientific output and maintains strong links with local industry and international partners. The university’s motto, “Eman ta zabal zazu” (“Give and spread knowledge”), reflects its mission to generate and share knowledge widely.
With state-of-the-art facilities, a multicultural student life, and active international collaborations, the University of the Basque Country plays a vital role in the academic, cultural, and economic landscape of the region.
Institute of Development
Description: The Institute of Development (IoD) was established in 2003 with a vision to improve wellbeing and achieve optimal human functioning through continuous personal and professional development. Its mission is to empower individuals, organisations, and communities to flourish through evidence-based methods, including the principles of Positive Psychology, character education, soft skills development, emotional intelligence and compassion.
Website: https://iodevelopment.eu/
UPB- University Paderborn, Germany
Chair Wirtschaftspädagogik I – Business and Human Resource Education II
The University of Paderborn in Paderborn, Germany, is a university founded in 1972 in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a young, dynamic, and modern research university in East Westphalia-Lippe, known for its interdisciplinary collaboration, practice-oriented teaching, and strong networking with industry and research, particularly in the fields of computer science, engineering, natural sciences, and humanities, with a clear focus on shaping the digital society and sustainable solutions.
It offers a wide range of degree programs with a strong focus on future-oriented fields such as intelligent technical systems, optoelectronics, and digital humanities.
The University of Paderborn is one of Germany’s medium-sized universities with a strong research and knowledge transfer focus. Our five faculties – Cultural Studies, Business Administration, Mechanical Engineering, Natural Sciences, and Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics – offer 70 degree programs. In addition, we offer approximately 166 subject combinations for teacher training. With around 20,000 students, the University of Paderborn is one of the high-performing medium-sized universities in Germany.
As a campus university, it offers short distances between lecture halls, laboratories, the library, and other facilities. The university places great emphasis on knowledge and technology transfer and actively promotes spin-offs, making it one of the leading entrepreneurial universities in Germany. The university benefits from the strong economic region of OWL and works closely with companies and research institutes (e.g. Fraunhofer, Heinz Nixdorf Institute).
Our university has established itself in key areas of research with internationally recognized cutting-edge expertise. Researchers here work on the technologies of the future, always with a focus on societal needs. Developing sustainable solutions to the pressing challenges of our time shapes research at the University of Paderborn. Collaborations with other universities, companies, and research networks – both nationally and internationally – contribute to our university’s excellent network.
The chair Wirtschaftspädagogik II – Business and Human Resource Education II of Prof. Dr. Marc Beutner is partner in the Higher Education project CARE + CONNECT and is settled at the department 5: Business and Human Resource Education of the University of Paderborn. The Department for Business and Human Resource Education is one out of six Departments of the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Business Computing at the University of Paderborn. It educates students in the first phase (university phase) of teacher education for the field of higher education, vocational education and training (more precisely: field business and economics) in Germany.
The chair of Prof. Dr. Marc Beutner has established a strong international research and activity network and is active in European and global research and cooperations.
CUPIT – The National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UNSTPB) was created in 2023 by the fusion between the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and the University of Pitești (UPIT). The former University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest is the oldest and most prestigious engineer school in Romania. Its traditions are related to the establishment, in 1818, by Gheorghe Lazăr, of the first higher technical school with teaching in Romanian, at the Saint Sava Abbey in Bucharest.
Nowadays, the newly created university – UNSTPB – is the largest in Romania, gathering 33.500 students in total (25.000 in 15 faculties in Bucharest and 8500 in 6 faculties in Pitești). UNSTPB ensures a performant education, developed and perfected through a complex research activity, according to the exigencies and the means offered by the modern information society. UNSTPB has the mission to bring together education, training and scientific research. It aims to create a new technical university profile, which promotes forms of training adapted to the requirements of a competing society, subject to the integration process in the European and international community. The role of this intersection is to increase knowledge and innovation, two key concepts of knowledge-based economy and society.
The Pitești University Centre (CUPIT), as one of the two centres composing the National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest (UNSTPB), is a state modern, dynamic and efficient HE provider for over 8500 students. It has 550 academic & non-academic staffs and 6 faculties providing Bachelor, Master and Doctor degrees (www.upit.ro). It aims providing high quality educational, training and research services to train specialists in different fields and create an intellectual community, accredited by national/international quality agencies.
The activities of CUPIT include education & training; scientific & applicative research; educational software design and testing; professional guidance & counselling; international cooperation; publishing activities. It cooperates with local, regional and national institutions (agencies, inspectorates, schools, companies and enterprises, NGOs, SMEs, associations, foundations, museums and libraries, sport clubs) and is a full member of international bodies (EUA, DRC, AUF, EfVET, EDEN). Its last-decade portfolio contains over 200 research & cooperation EU financed projects, as coordinator or partner.
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