The University of Wolverhampton (UoW) (www.wlv.ac.uk) is a higher education institution with a tradition of providing opportunity and academic excellence dating back nearly 190 years and is today 

known as the 'University of Opportunity'. The University has approximately 23,000 students and 2, 500 staff and operates across 3 main campus sites. Subject areas are based around 3 faculties: Faculty of Art, Business and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing and the Faculty of Science and Engineering. The University is a centre of research excellence; with over a third of submissions to the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF) graded as world-leading or internationally excellent. UoW has three Research Institutes and 18 Research Centres. UoW currently lead nine Erasmus Strategic Partnerships and are partner on a further five Erasmus projects; the total value of UoW Erasmus projects is €5,989,405. UoW are also leading six H2020 projects, we are a partner in four H2020 projects and a partner in one Creative Europe Culture project. UoW have nine live European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) projects, with another five due to start soon. UoW successfully attracts international students thanks to its excellent reputation and the quality of the courses offered. In 2018, UoW was awarded a Silver award as part of the Teaching Excellence Framework assessment. This award recognises that UoW delivers provision that is of high quality and consistently exceeds the rigorous national quality requirements for UK higher education, with most students achieving excellent outcomes.  

The University of Wolverhampton has established partnerships with a variety of institutions in the UK and worldwide. These partnerships enable students to study University of Wolverhampton courses in their own establishment. The University of Wolverhampton has been working successfully with International Teaching Organisations around the world for a number of years, providing partner institutions with further and higher education including: preparatory courses, undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes, research and professional development programmes and consultancy. 

ESTIA (École Supérieure Des Technologies Industrielles Avancées) is a private and non-profit entity, subsidiary of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Bayonne Pays Basque, Basque Country. ESTIA has been providing education and training for 20 years, in the areas of industrial technologies. (www.estia.fr ).The ESTIA campus is composed of four entities: 

-ESTIA, Engineering school, with almost 900 students. 

-ESTIA ENTREPRENDRE, dedicated to welcoming and supporting entrepreneurs and new technology-based business. ESTIA holds in their facilities a Business and a Project Incubator with a technological vocation. This structure allows the support of new start-ups, providing premises, training and services adapted to their specific needs.  

-ESTIA RECHERCHE, research Group composed of approximately 80 persons (researchers, Ph.D 

students, post-doctorates). 

-ESTIATECH, is the entity in charge of value-added research and technology transfer, fosters relationships between ESTIA and businesses looking for technological solutions, skills and training for  their innovative projects, and stimulates partner-oriented research. 

ESTIATECH is a partner of the various ESTIA platforms; PEPSS (HMI and usage), ENERGEA (renewable energy), SIMECOMP (simulation and modelling). COMPOSITADOUR (Technological platform specialized in advanced processes: Composites and Robotics) and ADDIMADOUR (Technological platform specialized in advanced processes: Additive Manufacturing and Robotics). 

ESTIA has strong partnerships with other European schools: University of Bordeaux I, University of Mondragon, University of the Basque Country _(UPV-EHU), University of Madrid (UPM) in Spain and the University of Cranfield, Wolverhampton, & Salford-Manchester in the United Kingdom. It also maintains collaborations with several other universities, worldwide and professional networks (Aerospace Valley, Digital Aquitaine, Avenia). Among its most relevant customers, it is possible to find the following: Total, Airbus, Ariane Group, Naval Group, Arkema, Airbus DS, Stelia… 

The Berlin School of Management and the Berlin School of Technology (formerly SRH Hochschule Berlin) are part of SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, a private, state-recognised and accredited university located in Berlin and Dresden. The SRH Hochschule Berlin was founded in 2002 and has been part of SRH Holding since 2007. 

The five schools of the SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences combine modern management and entrepreneurship, media and creative industries, technology and IT, music and sound design in modern study programmes. In all, 26 German and English-speaking Bachelor's, Master's and MBA programmes - with different managerial and technological focuses – are offered, with new programmes constantly being developed, for example an M.Eng. in Engineering and Sustainable Technology Management - Focus on Digital Industry and Industrial Automation and M.Sc. in Computer Science - Focus on Cyber Security   

All schools focus on hands-on project work in small teams, individual learning experiences, and personal supervision by lecturers with real business experience.  

With approximately 1200 students from over 85 nations, the Berlin School of Management and the Berlin School of Technology do not only have an international student body, but intercultural orientation is part of our everyday teaching and business approach. 

Since July 2009 the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat) has accredited us as an institution of higher education. In 2019 the initial reaccreditation has been extended from five to ten years, which confirmed the high quality of the teaching and research that we do. In its statement, the German Council of Science and Humanities honoured our international orientation, the number and quality of partners and the outstanding research achievements. Our network includes many top-ranked universities outside Germany and companies in Germany and abroad. 

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos is the youngest and most modern of all public universities in Madrid. It has four campuses, located in Móstoles, Alcorcón, Fuenlabrada and Vicálvaro (Madrid), as well as its Foundation in the city center. It was created in 1996 with the objective of offering all-round preparation for its students, combining theoretical teaching with training in laboratories and companies, thus facilitating rapid access to the labour market. The university has, at present (course 2018/19), more than 45.000 students enrolled, including 5.200 international students from over a hundred countries from all over the World, and a staff of more than 1.900 members, including both teachers and administrative personnel. 

In 2017 Rey Juan Carlos University which ranks 82nd at UI GreenMetric World University Rankings According to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking (THE), The Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) is scored, thanks to the excellence of its Engineering and Technology degrees, among the 400 best universities in the world. In this regard and nationally stands out as one of the top 10 universities. Thus, the URJC reaches the third position in Spain, taking into account the citations of its scientific articles (with a score of 68.5 out of 100). 

At a global level, and according to this same international ranking, the URJC was already among the 800 best universities in the world. And among the 200 best rated universities with less than 50 years. 

URJC has established an European Projects Office (EPO) to strengthen the participation in international research activities. EPO collaborates in two main ways: on one hand attending and handling both administrative and financial issues from the different projects and action, and on the other hand assisting the researchers and the project/action individually by providing support in different tasks regarding Technology Transfer, IP management and support, Open Access, Technology Watch and so on. The EPO has a staff with a technical and financial background, and skills to develop the above described activities. Additionally, the EPO has a delegation located in the Office of the Madrid Region in Brussels whose primary mission is to serve as liaison and interface, between researchers and the European institutions. 

Thus, by facing projects as a challenge to be solved from different perspectives (technological, 

social, economic) URJC has achieved to increase the number of proposal approved and funded, being significant the growth in the number of projects in which URJC has participated (and coordinated). 

Fontys University of Applied Sciences is one of the largest universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. As a broad-based university Fontys offers a variety of bachelors and masters programmes and a varied range of training courses. Also Fontys offers special educational programmes (Associate Degree courses) to facilitate further education for graduated VET students. 

Fontys provides education and research. Our goal is to become an innovation engine by linking 

education and research to innovation processes both inside and outside the region. Fontys makes a considerable impact on every sector of society in the region thanks to the diversity of its education programmes and research. Our education and research is interlinked with the demands and requirements of our students, both current and future, a broad field of professionals and also the (regional) community. Together with our partners in society we want to help formulate, address and research future questions and solve them. Knowledge and skills essential for this collaboration are Technology, Entrepreneurship and Creativity. 

Fontys has 28 institutes hosting over 44,000 students on multiple campuses. Fontys main base is in Eindhoven in the heart of the Brainport region, well-known and world-class high tech region, including sub-sectors such as additive manufacturing. 

Fontys School Engineering is specialised in High Tech Systems and Materials (HTSM). Fontys Engineering educates young engineers to take part in highly specialised companies by inventing and manufacturing high tech products with high standard materials. At Fontys School of Engineering in Eindhoven there are about 1500 students. The students follow a four-year curriculum with basic studies in the first two years and a specialised route in the last two years. 

Fontys has partnership cooperation with VET institutes, e.g. Summa College in Eindhoven (see: https://www.summacollege.nl/en/programme-information/programmes/programme-detail/summainternational-engineering-(vocational-training-pathway) 

Two partner groups from University of Ljubljana: Laboratory of Robotics from Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Laboratory for Welding from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, established 1919, has today 50.000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, taking over 300 different undergraduate and postgraduate study programs. It employs approx. 6,000 higher education teachers, researchers, assistants and administrative staff in 23 faculties and 3 arts academies.  

Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FE) has 34 active research labs, currently with 126 teaching staff and 174 researchers covering power engineering, electronics, telecommunications, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, automatics and robotics. Laboratory of Robotics (http://robo.fe.uni-lj.si) has long-standing excellence in the field of man and machine movement analysis, as well as artificial and natural motor control. The research group has good track in robotics research, robotic applications for industrial and clinical environments. Main achievements of theoretical and practical research in the field of industrial applications covers the development of large-scale robotic device for facade panels assembly, development of wireless motion tracking system and development of robotic cell for dual arm 6D printing of composite materials with long carbon fibres reinforcement.  

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FS) is a member of UL. It has around 2250 students and 334 employees in 17 Chairs and two divisions. It has 44 laboratories. Approximately 118 employees are engaged in R&D. Turnover of FME is 19.8 M€, while R&D dedicated turnover is 10.2 M€. FME is involved in more than 40 projects (H2020, Erasmus+, CIP IEE, ERA NET, ERDF etc) in addition to other R&D and educational national and international projects. Laboratory for Welding (LAVAR) is focused on R&D and education on the field of Welding and Joining of different materials (weldability of metals and non-metals) using different joining technologies, additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping, thermal cutting as well as manufacturing and assembling technologies, and testing of materials (destructive and non-destructive testing). The last years the group is doing extensive research of wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM), using welding robot or CNC machine and arc welding technology. The excellence in achievements can be recognized by more than 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals in the last 5 years, 4 finished PhDs in the last 5 years while there are currently 6 PhD students working on their thesis. Two Phd student is currently working on Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing. First PhD is working on Finite Element Modeling of WAAM and the second is developing the algorithms for automated WAAM.