Università Degli Studi Di Bologna (UNIBO)
Bologna, Italy
UNIBO is the second largest university in Italy and one of the most active in research and technology transfer. It stands among the most important institutions of higher education in EU with 87,000 enrolled students, 2,857 Academic staff, 1,198 post-docs, 1,606 PhDs, 3,014 administrative and technicians staff units. The activities are implemented in 5 Campuses based in the Emilia-Romagna Region and a permanent headquarter in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At EU level UNIBO ranks 2nd University in Italy, 37th in Europe among the top 50 Higher education organizations in FP7 (EC 7th Monitoring Report). CIRSFID, a research centre founded in Bologna in 1986, pools together the expertise of scholars and researchers from the Law School, Engineering, Humanities, Computer Sciences and Medicine. The Centre is involved in several national and European research projects, promotes graduate University courses, including the only Italian PhD in Legal Informatics and Bioethics. CIRSFID leads the Master’s course of Legal Informatics and ICT Law at the Law School, in coordination with EULISP Consortium (Hannover). It founded the Italian Society for Legal Informatics, it is the editor of the int. journal Artificial Intelligence and Law (Springer) and director of two Summer Schools in Legislative XML and Law and Logic, linked with European University Institute. CIRSFID leads the Eramsus Mundus PhD join title in Law, Science, Technology that is now in its 5th edition, with a total of 39 doctoral candidates.
Università Degli Studi Di Torino (UNITO)
Turin, Italy
The University of Torino (UNITO) is one of the most ancient and prestigious Italian Universities. Nowadays, UNITO has about 70.000 students, 4.000 academic, administrative and technical staff, 1800 post-graduate and post-doctoral students and 120 buildings in different parts of the city. It carries out scientific research and organizes courses in all disciplines, except Engineering and Architecture. UNITO is active at international level through involvement of its researchers in international projects, establishment of joint educational courses, such as bi-national degrees and international PhD programmes, through the subscription of formal cooperation agreements (roughly 450) with institutions around the world. It has a long record in participating in European projects. Currently, UNITO is taking part in 115 research projects funded under the FP7, being coordinator in 36 of these and in 31 projects funded under H2020. Amongst the EU funded projects, UNITO hosts 5 ERC grants, is additional participant in 2 ERC projects and has been funded in 45 MSCA Actions, of which 11 are ITNs.
Université Du Luxembourg (UL)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Early in 2009, the University of Luxembourg (UL) created its first interdisciplinary research centre, SnT, to raise the competitiveness of Luxembourg and diversify the country’s economy, notably towards the ICT sector. Several successful ICT companies have their European headquarters in Luxembourg, for example Ebay, PayPal, iTunes, Amazon, Skype, and Netflix. Security, reliability and trust are keywords associated with the services that these companies provide. SnT brings together researchers from its partners and the UL faculties to carry out research and Ph.D. education in Security, Reliability and Trust. To facilitate interaction with external partners, research activities are carried out through interdisciplinary strategic research programs targeting key areas of strategic importance for the region. The partnerships with SES, EPT, IEE, CETREL and Ville de Luxembourg define large research programs with several faculty members participating. New agreements were recently signed with Delphi, HITEC, CREOS, CTIE, Cubelux and the Defense Department of Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs. By mid-2014, 222 people (including 82 Ph.D. candidates) were active at the Centre including 19 faculty members who are formally employed by the faculty and who carry out SnT research responsibilities or duties. SnT has received a number of scientific awards (15 paper awards 13 individual awards) during its five years of operation. SnT has a strong program for supporting Ph.D. students with courses for project writing.
Universitat Autònoma De Barcelona (UAB)
Barcelona, Spain
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) has currently 79 Doctorate programs (2015- 2016), 4.186 PHD students (2014-2015), 618 PHD Thesis defended (2013-2014), 45 EU projects (2014), 256 national projects (2014), 9 European Research Council (ERC), 44 patents (2014), 69 Spin-off (2014), and 3.240 papers published (2014, Thomson Reuters WOK). UAB is ranked 146 in the world, best Spanish University in WUR 2015-2016, and 67 best European University. Moreover, UAB is ranked 10 in the world in the QS WUR 2015-2016 under 50 years new Universities