VSB – Technical University of Ostrava is a public institution of higher education which provides tertiary education in more than one hundred accredited educational programmes in engineering, IT, technology, economics and business related branches. A wide range of high quality, Czech and English taught programmes are offered within seven Faculties and two all-University Programmes. Currently, around 15,000 students are enrolled at the university. Each year the university welcomes around 1400 international students.
The Innovation Support Centre is a specialised organisational unit of the VSB-TUO responsible for developmental activities in the field of science-industry collaboration, knowledge transfer and career development of students and graduates. The Centre co-operates closely with individual departments as well as other units of the university, research organisations and public sector institutions. It consists of three specific parts – Projects Support Centre, Entrepreneurship and Career Centre and R&D Results Commercialisation. The main activities include:
– Integration of the university into research projects. The Centre looks for suitable projects and programmes, which can be attractive for collaborative activities of the university, and conducts collaborative projects;

– Entrepreneurship support, programs for young entrepreneurs and star ups, internships, internationalisation of business
– Support to IPR commercialisation and operation of the business incubator.

The University of Cantabria (Spain) is a modern public institution whose main purpose is to contribute to social progress through a firm commitment to teaching and scientific excellence. UC consists of 1,230 researchers and 12,267 students. It has 5 Research Institutes, 3 Foundations and 1 business incubator, as well as 162 R+D groups from 32 departments. The pursuit of international excellence is divided into the specialization areas of Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technology, Climate action and Environment, Resource efficiency and Raw materials, Secure, Clean and Efficient energy, and Advanced Manufacturing and Processing.
UC has an extensive experience in international research projects and programmes, participating in more than 100 projects both in the Seventh Framework Program (FP7, 2007-2013) and in the Horizon 2020 calls. With a strong track record in assisting international consortia in proposal preparation, contract negotiation, project implementation and communication, UC’s European Projects Office personnel offers professional support along the whole life cycle of an EU project.
Regarding student and staff mobility, the University has signed 216 agreements with European Universities (Erasmus programme), 64 with Latin-American institutions, 8 with universities in the United States and 1 with an Australian university, sending and receiving more than 600 exchange students within this framework.

The partner from The University of Genova brings to the project the experience with designing and realizing the Edularp programmes with the target group. Knowledge from the creation of educational games and work with the target group are transferable from previous projects with a different learning focus. The partner offers well established network of cooperating high schools.
The University of Genova aims at equipping students with a sound cultural and scientific basis and tools to address in a strict and conscious way their future professional careers, offering concrete possibilities of integration between theory and practice, including internships at companies and training periods abroad.
The existing international cooperation concerns the fields of research and didactics, with many scientific bilateral and multilateral agreements and European Union projects.
The Department of Education (DISFOR), one of the 4 departments that constitute the School of Social Sciences, has a long experience on International cooperation and participation to European project (Tempus, Erasmus Mundus, FP 7, Erasmus+ KA2): it has been a coordinator for several EU projects with excellent feedback from commitment. At DISFOR we have anthropologists, philosophers, geographers, linguists, pedagogues, psychologists, sociologists and historians who conduct disciplinary and interdisciplinary research, covering a wide spectrum of Humanities Sciences.