Newcastle University has always focused on academic excellence and the impact of their academic work. They seek to address some of the key global societal issues through research in 3 areas: ageing; social renewal; sustainability. Newcastle University collaborates with a range of partners and strategic initiatives. These partnerships help to extend the University’s influence and reinforce their ties with the city, the region and beyond.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid health activities cover a wide variety of topics, being the Biotech initiative its flagship: a stable interdisciplinar environment grouping UPM research groups with high expertise and qualified infrastructure to address major challenges in Biomedicine and Health. With special focus in ICT for health, UPM has capabilities and R&D results in all EIT Health areas in order to transfer advanced ICT and Health solutions and technologies to the Industry partners, to validate those solutions in our Living Labs, to promote the start-up of new ventures issued by UPM community and regional Health ecosystem, and to offer high quality and experienced educational programmes.

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.