The University of Geneva (est. 1559), is the second largest in Switzerland with over 15’000 students. It is considered one of the three leading generalist French-speaking universities in the world. It enjoys international renown and is consistently ranked among the top 1% out of 20,000 universities. UNIGE is currently involved in some 150 European projects and coordinates 13 FP7 projects. It offers top-level research infrastructure to a teaching and research staff from over 100 different nationalities. The University’s Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI) is the oldest and one of the top three worldwide in its field, and its Observatoire Économie-Langues-Formation (ÉLF) is a unique research hub in the economics of linguistic diversity and multilingualism.

The Faculté de Droit is the University of Geneva’s highly-rated Faculty of Law. In addition to excellence in teaching and research, it is noted for its tight networks of cooperation with prestigious Law Schools and major international organisations. Its Centre d'études juridiques européennes (CEJE, Center for European Legal Studies), founded in 1963, promotes teaching and research in European Union Law and its impacts on Swiss Law. The CEJE edits Dossiers de droit européen (DDE) series, published by Helbing/Bruylant/LGDJ (Bâle/Bruxelles/Paris), and is a European Documentation Centre (EDC) specialised in European Union Law.

The Universiteit van Amsterdam is a major research university and a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). It has its origins in the Athenaeum Illustre (1632) and, with over 30,000 students, over 5,000 employees and an annual budget of 600 million euros, is one of the largest general research universities in Europe. It ranked best in the Netherlands in the latest QS World Ranking, it ranks high in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, especially in Social Sciences (top in the Netherlands) and Arts & Humanities, as well as in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (also known as Shanghai Ranking) and the CWTS Leiden Ranking.

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences includes the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), home to several research structures, in particular the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS). CUS is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together social and political scientists, especially human geographers, urban and regional planners, urban sociologists, demographers, and scholars in the fields of migration studies and development studies.

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences includes the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), that unites all social science research of the UvA. It is home to several research structures, in particular the Centre of Urban Studies (CUS). CUS is a multidisciplinary centre bringing together social and political scientists, especially human geographers, urban and regional planners, urban sociologists, demographers, and scholars in the fields of migration studies and development studies.

The University of Ljubljana is the oldest in Slovenia. With more than 56,000 undergraduate, 22 faculties and 3 academies, it ranks among the biggest universities in Europe.
Its Department of Translation was founded in 1997, and has rapidly established a reputation of excellence, reflected in its membership of the CIUTI (Conférence internationale permanente d’instituts universitaires de traducteurs et interprètes) (2004), the Consortium of European Masters in Conference Interpreting (2005), and EMT (European Master’s in Translation) network (2009), a partnership project between higher education institutions and the European Commission.

Founded in 1970, Universität Augsburg is a well-established research university spanning a great variety of disciplines. Its seven faculties offer 80 study undergraduate and graduate programmes to over 18,000 students.
Multi-disciplinary and inter-departmental research activities are brought together in three centres of excellence and several institutes, including the Institute of Social Sciences. Universität Augsburg faculty members are currently involved in some 100 research projects funded by the DFG, the German national research foundation and 30 European and international projects.

The Universidade do Algarve, established in 1979, is now composed of three Faculties and four Schools, with an enrolment of nearly 10,000, including 10% from mobility programs, reflecting the attractiveness of its course offerings.
Universidade do Algarve is involved in numerous transnational partnerships and projects, within and outside the European Union. It is the Portuguese institution that coordinates the highest number of Erasmus Mundus 2nd and 3rd cycle, and Universidade do Algarve is partner member of several life-learning projects (LLP), thematic networks and European framework programmes.
The main topics of research and teaching at Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais are languages and language sciences, literatures and cultures, arts, communication, history and archeology, psychology and educational sciences.

The Universitat Rovira i Virgili was founded in 1991 from existing university centres, restoring the University of Tarragona that dated from the 16th century. The Universitat Rovira i Virgili has faculties and schools in the areas of health sciences, social sciences, humanities, technology and experimental sciences. It has more than 12,000 students. Despite its status as a mid-sized university, it consistently scores among the top institutions in Spain for research and publications.

The Latvijas Universitāte with its 17,000 students, 13 faculties and more than 20 research institutes is one of the largest comprehensive and leading research universities in the Baltic States. It is the main centre of intellectual life in Latvia, and it has recently embarked, through the setting up of new faculties and study areas, in an ambitious programme of quality improvement in teaching and research. Its Advanced Social and Political Research Institute (ASPRI) is recognised as one of leading European centre of expertise in security studies.

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FFOS) is part of J. J. Strossmayer University, Osijek, the third largest university in Croatia, with over 20,000 students and involvement in over 200 national and international projects. FFOS operates in a multi-ethnic and multilingual setting, and is the leading regional institution of higher education offering BA, MA and PhD programmes in the humanities and social sciences, bringing together a diverse student body. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences currently coordinates 11 research projects in the field of humanities and social sciences, and offers excellent research and event hosting infrastructure.

The Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Sciences Po) is a self-governing research university specialised in the social-economic sciences and the humanities with an enrolment of 11,000, including 40% of foreign students from more than 130 countries. Sciences Po is the leading research university in the social sciences in France, with 400 academic partnerships with universities around the world. Sciences Po is home to a doctoral school offering seven graduate programs. 17 of the Sciences Po research teams have been involved in FP6, and around 30 in FP7. With its million-volume collection the library is the richest in humanities and social sciences in continental Europe. The active publishing house with more than 1000 titles in its catalogue and six academic journals, Les Presses de Sciences Po, disseminates the research results of its ten research centres, five of which are closely linked to the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). One of them, the CERI (Centre d’études et de recherches internationales) brings together experts on international relations and area-studies specialists of various disciplinary backgrounds including political science, history, economics, sociology and anthropology. The centre’s faculty currently consists of over fifty fellows and a dozen research associates. The centre maintains a state-of-the-art website (www.ceri-sciences-po.org).

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, established in 1825, includes since 2000 the Institute for Minority Studies, which works under the auspices of the Centre for Social Sciences (mta-tk). The primary objective of the Institute is to conduct research on minority communities in the social, economic and political spheres in Hungary, the Central European region, and Europe as a whole. The Institute brings together cultural anthropologists, legal experts, sociologists and historians and works in close co-operation with other institutes in the Centre for Social Sciences, particularly Institutes for Legal Studies, Political Science and Sociology. The Centre for Social Sciences is currently involved in various international research projects and is partner in 20 FP7 projects. It offers an excellent research infrastructure for the more than 100 research staff.

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel was established following the splitting in two parts, in 1970, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, which was founded in 1834 to be a university fully independent from state and church, where academic freedom would be prevalent. Today, the university numbers more than 11,000 students. It is a strongly research-oriented institution and it is ranked 189 (out of 700) in the QS World ranking. BRIO (Brussels Information, Documentation and Research Centre) is a leading hub of expertise on diversity, multicultural cities, multilingualism and integration, and is famous for its language surveys.

Università di Milano-Bicocca is a young university founded in 1998, and thanks to the quality of its teaching and research, it has rapidly earned international recognition, with a high position, among the universities created less than 50 ago, in the 2012 Times Higher Education Ranking; the Top 400 World Universities Ranking 2011-12 rates Università di Milano-Bicocca as the first Italian university. With a student enrolment of about 35,000, including 8% from abroad, Università di Milano-Bicocca offers first-rate teaching and research infrastructure to scholars and students of various disciplines, including economics, science, medicine, statistics, sociology, psychology and humanities. Università di Milano-Bicocca's high degree of integration in international networks is reflected in some 500 cooperation agreements with institutions in 41 countries.

Universität Leipzig, founded in 1409, is a research university, which offers education in a rich and diverse research environment for about 28,000 students taught by approximately 400 faculty members. The large variety of 14 faculties (covering disciplines from medicine to natural sciences, from mathematics to theology and from social sciences to sports) offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary work. In the years since the political changes in 1989 significant amounts of money have been invested in the research infrastructure, so that Universität Leipzig is a top institution both in buildings and equipment today. Universität Leipzig is involved in more than 50 FP7 projects; its Faculty of Philology is the largest in the university.

Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne was created in 1548, thanks to the Cardinal de Lorraine who made the papacy turn it into one of the main cathedral schools in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was closed down in 1793 and was reborn in the 1960s as a multidisciplinary university. With 22,000 students, 1,557 teachers and teacher-researchers it holds/has a geostrategic position favouring European and international exchanges; 350 such co-operations with 38 countries are currently active. The laboratory CIRLEP "Centre interdisciplinaire de recherches sur les langues et la pensée" develops three research axes, including one on “Intercompréhension et didactique du plurilinguisme”.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is one of Germany’s 11 “Universities of Excellence”. It was successful in all three funding lines in the third round of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. The University covers all the major academic disciplines in the Arts and Humanities, in Social Science, Cultural Science, Human Medicine, Agricultural Science, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences. Research at Humboldt University is internationally acknowledged in several subject areas, such Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Cultural and Art Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Economics and Law. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is currently involved in some 40 FP7 projects. The MIME project is attached to the Research group on Economics and Language (REAL) at the Institute of Education Science in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Situated at the heart of Western Europe, K.U. Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425, K.U. Leuven bears the dual honour of being the oldest extant Catholic university in the world and the oldest university in the Low Countries. It has over 40,000 students and 18,635 employees. The university strives towards excellence in research. K.U. Leuven is the 5th University in the FP7 ranking, with 434 granted projects in total (as of August 2012) and in the European top 10 for ERC-grants.

The University of Limerick is an independent university established in 1989; its campus is at the heart of the 650-acre National Technological Park, which holds over 80 organisations and employs over 4,000 people, and with which the University of Limerick maintains close working relationships. With a solid record of involvement in EC funded collaborative projects, the University of Limerick has a thriving reputation in social science and humanities research supported by one of four university-wide research institutes, the Institute for Study of Knowledge in Society (ISKS). ISKS and the University of Limerick have participated in Framework since FP3 as well as in EC research training initiatives. Previous large-scale funded projects have included those funded by the EUSSPPR, Programme of Strategic Cooperation between Irish Aid and Higher Education and Research Institutes, FP7 Project Funding and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The University of Edinburgh (est. 1583), with over 20,000 undergraduates and 10,000 postgraduates, is consistently ranked amongst the top universities in the world. It is a member of both the League of European Research Universities, an association of 21 leading research-intensive universities in Europe, and the Russell Group, an association of 24 leading United Kingdom research universities. The department of Celtic and Scottish Studies has developed an outstanding reputation for research on all aspects of Gaelic language policy, as well as minority language policy and legislation in general, and has close links with the School of Law, the School of Education, and the department of Linguistics, all having excellent research records.

Uppsala Universitet was founded in 1477 and is the oldest University in the Nordic countries. Its nine faculties host 40,000 students and number 6,000 employees. Uppsala Universitet is ranked as one of the top 100 in Times Higher Education ranking. The university is currently involved in more than 200 EU-funded projects (approximately 20 as coordinator). The Institute for Housing and Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary research department under the Faculty of Social Sciences. Research at the institute covers housing, the built environment and urban issues, but also migration and mobility. Since 2010, the institute holds a long-term program grant for research on international migration and ethnic relations, funded by one of the major Swedish research councils. Recent international evaluations have praised the high international quality of the research performed at the institute.

The Universitatea din Oradea is the descendent of an institution founded in Oradea in 1780 for the teaching of philosophy and became the Faculty of Law eight years later. It has now become a full-fledged university with more than 100 programmes of study at BA level, 80 MA and 11 PhD programmes. It has an enrolment of over 20,000 students and was ranked 17th out of over 100 universities in Romania, is currently increasing its involvement in EU-funded research. Universitatea din Oradea's Research Centre for Identity and Migration Issues (RCIMI) is a partner in the European project “The Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings in EU”.

Observatoire de la Finance was set up in response to a question raised in the early 1990s: what is the purpose of financial markets? Observatoire de la Finance today is a think tank linking technical financial expertise with ethical issues. It is an independent, apolitical and non-religious body engaging in multidisciplinary diagnosis regarding on aspects the relationship between economy, finance, and society. Observatoire de la Finance is an internationally-oriented foundation under Swiss law, supervised by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and working under the responsibility of a Board. It maintains close collaboration with the University of Fribourg (CH), INSEAD in Paris, the Centre of Study of Financial Innovation in London, and Finance Watch in Brussels.

Founded in 2005, SCIPROM is an SME specialised in the management of European research projects. SCIPROM supports scientific coordinators from the first project idea to the final report, in project set-up, submission, negotiation, and management. At present, SCIPROM has 6 employees.