Copenhagen Business School (CBS) is one of the largest business schools in Europe and hosts more than 20,000 students and 1,500 employees. CBSaims to become a world-leading business university with teaching and research excellencein classical management disciplines and in disciplines that place business in a wider social, political and cultural context. CBS has extensive research and teaching activities in the management and economics of innovation in health care

University of Coimbra (UC) is a reference in higher education and R&D in Portugal, due to the quality of the courses taught at its eight colleges and to the advances achieved in pure and applied research in various scientific domains and on technology related areas. The offer in technological research makes UC an undeniable reference in R&D in Portugal, which highlights the excellence of work developed by the R&D units of UC, namely in the fields of life sciences. UC offers advanced entrepreneurship education trainings programs in different areas that bind to technology, where it was considered by EC as one of the 20 most inspiring cases in Europe. UC stands out also on technology transfer being involved in the promotion of several successful initiatives, like IPN Incubator, TECBis- Business accelerator unit, Biocant, and in the creation of more than 200 technological spin-offs, the majority of them healthcare related businessess. UC U-Multirank scored “very good” (the maximum classification) on Research, Technology Transfer and Internationalisation.

With over 40,000 students and more than 9,500 employees, UCPH – founded 1479 – is among the largest comprehensive universities in Europe. It is ranked No. 7 in Europe and no. 39 in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015. The University has an international environment where ambitious researchers and students strive for new knowledge and insights. UCPH is placed at the centre of a stimulation entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Greater Copenhagen Area.

The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) is the largest and most prestigious University in Portugal (ARWU), bringing together areas of knowledge such as science, technology, art studies, humanities, including a broad and multidisciplinary cluster of research units. It has almost 50 000 students (4000 are in doctoral programmes), about 470 programmes and 3720 academic staff and researchers across 18 faculties and institutes, as well as 76 research units. ULisboa reaches about 1/3 of the competitive funding for research within Portuguese higher education institutions. It holds a reputed participation in H2020, within all areas of research. ULisboa is committed to promote the learning mobility of young people. Entrepreneurship as a success key for university education and research has been put into practice through the creation of innovation and entrepreneurship courses involving enterprises. Recently, incubation structures within ULisboa have successfully promoted 95 start-ups.