Porto Business School (PBS)

Porto Business School (PBS) is a private, non-profit institution that emerged from a collaboration between the University of Porto and large Portuguese companies.
PBS’ mission is to improve the quality of management through advanced education at postgraduate level (MBAs and Executive Education), custom programs, acceleration programs, corporate partnerships, applied research, consultancy and funded projects.
Porto Business School has an Intelligence and Insights Unit, specialized in Business Innovation and Transformation called Center for Business Innovation (CBI). CBI was conceived to answer the question “what’s next for organizations and individuals?”
Our activity in Center for Business Innovation is based on 3 areas: research, entrepreneurship and education.

Website: pbs.up.pt

Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB)

Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB) is Hungary’s most eminent educational institution in the fields of Economic, Management and Social Sciences. University-level education, just as in the most advanced countries of the world, started in Budapest in the 1920s at the autonomous Economics Faculty of the Hungarian Royal University of Science.
We believe in continuous development. We should not content ourselves with the results so far achieved. It was therefore decided that as of July 2019 Corvinus will be maintained by a State foundation rather by the State itself.
While this model allows for more flexible operations, it also ensures long-term and predictable planning.
Our objective is fairly ambitious: to turn into an international university, to become the leading institution of Central Europe in the field of economic, management and social sciences by 2030.

Website: uni-corvinus.hu

Technical University of Kosice (TUKE)

Technical University of Kosice is a public university dealing with university teaching and international cooperation in the area of research and education, fostering links with institutions in private and public sectors and thus responding to their needs and to the needs of society in general.
TUKE caters for a wide range of educational needs not only in the East-Slovak region, but throughout Slovakia and Central Europe, as in many specializations it is the only centre of education and research in this area.

Website: www.tuke.sk

Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB)

Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) is the university with the oldest academic tradition in Romania (began 440 years ago, in 1581), representing the largest academic community in the country (over 55,000 people, in 15 towns/21 municipalities and 13 counties). The university was named after two prominent scientists from Transylvania, the Romanian bacteriologist Victor Babeș and the Hungarian mathematician János Bolyai. A public university, UBB has the most complex academic profile in Romania, with three lines of study – Romanian/Hungarian/German, but also English, French and Italian. It is one of the five members of the Universitaria Consortium (the group of elite Romanian universities).

UBB is affiliated to The Guild (group of research-intensive, world-class universities), the SGroup – Universities in Europe, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, the European University Association and others. UBB is classified by the Romanian Ministry of Education as an advanced research and education university and is the first Romanian university to be granted 5 stars after the QS STAR international audit.

Website: www.ubbcluj.ro

University of Macerata (UNIMC)

The University of Macerata was established in 1290 and it is one of the oldest universities in Europe. Its main activities are focused on the humanities and social sciences.
Students are offered a broad range of courses supported by state-of-the-art services, including undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, Master’s and Ph.D. programmes, specialisation schools and summer schools.
Researchers of the Department of Education, Tourism and Cultural Heritage have a strong experience in participation to European funded projects in three main fields across a wide range of EC programmes:
a) Educational Sciences,
b) ICT and E-learning Technology,
c) Marketing of Agri-food sector and rural development.
From an academic perspectives, the expertise are well expressed by several publications in international refereed journals and by the high level of exchange programmes activated during past 5 years with leading universities at European level in these three fields.

Website: www.unimc.it

Startup Europe Regions Network (SERN)

“The Startup Europe Regions Network (SERN) is a network of regions dedicated to scaling up startup support. The purpose of SERN is to reinforce the links between regional authorities, development agencies, universities and associations who build and scale up the startup ecosystems at regional level in Europe, promoting a culture of startup friendly regions.
SERN’s core activities include promoting support activities across Europe to Start-ups; collecting best practices across Europe, highlighting the best Regional Practices; facilitating networking among regional decision makers; and mobilizing regional resources to address relevant barriers to startups’ growth.
SERN offers a virtual interconnected space for EU startups to scale up, aiming to leverage private investments with European and regional ones to create critical mass.”

Website: startupregions.eu