Contact: James Field fieldj2@cardiff.ac.uk
Website: www.cardiff.ac.uk

Cardiff University is the third oldest university in Wales and contains three colleges: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; and Physical Sciences and Engineering. In 2018–2019, Cardiff had a turnover of £537.1 million, including £116.0 million in research grants and contracts. It has an undergraduate enrolment of 23,755 and a total enrolment of 33,260 making it one of the ten largest UK universities.

As a school, we are the only dental school in Wales, providing unique and important leadership in dental research, teaching and patient care. We are located at the University Dental Hospital on Cardiff University's Heath Park campus, a 53 acre site shared with the University Hospital of Wales. Progressive healthcare education and patient care are successfully integrated with our research facilities in this major teaching and research centre. Our academic and clinical staff are recognised as being world-leading experts in their fields. They provide valuable clinical services to the people of Wales in addition to their academic responsibilities.

Our research mirrors the research groupings across the College of Biomedical Life Science and is split into three distinct themes including Dental Education, Scholarship and Innovation.

Contact: Prof Ilze Akota Ilze.Akota@rsu.lv
Website: www.rsu.lv

Rīga Stradiņš University acquired its status as a university in 2002, however its historical roots extend back to Rīga Medical Institute, founded in 1950.The majority of medical professionals working in various fields in Latvia have acquired their education at Rīga Stradiņš University.

Today Rīga Stradiņš University trains doctors, dentists, pharmacists and nurses, and also specialists in rehabilitation, public healthcare, social sciences and law. The total number of students is 9000 students.

RSU's teaching staff are professionals in their areas of expertise and are opinion leaders in society. RSU diplomas open the way to interesting professions in both Latvia and in the wider world. Former students of the University's medicine and healthcare programs treat patients in Latvia’s largest hospitals and outpatient clinics.

RSU has a considerable number of international students (26 % of the total student number). At the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Dentistry, the number of international students stands at 53 %. The majority of international students studying at RSU are from Germany, Sweden, and Norway, however there are also number of students from many other countries of the world (Non-EU)

Within the past few years RSU has achieved the highest number of incoming exchange students since 1999. Currently RSU has more than 150 bilateral agreements (Erasmus+ program) with partner countries in Europe and beyond.

Contact: Prof Corrrado Paganelli corrado.paganelli@unibs.it
Website: www.unibs.it

The University of Brescia offers a wide range of educational programs with Bachelor and Master of Science (MSc) degrees, postgraduate technical courses, specialization schools and Ph.D. programs in most areas: business and economics, engineering and technology, law, medicine and surgery, dentistry. The University of Brescia promotes initiatives aimed at internationalization, European and international exchange agreements and cooperation programs to encourage student and researcher mobility.

At present, Università degli Studi di Brescia counts more than 135 active financed research projects, 35 international and 100 nationally funded projects.  The University participated in various programs such as FP5, FP6, FP7, COST actions, LIFE+, South East Europe Program, Erasmus Mundus, ACP Water Facility, Civil Justice. For the past 15 years, through collaboration with King’s College of London, an annual event (the Anglo-Italian colloquia) has been organized and granted funds to enhance e-learning and new tools for education. Experts from more than 20 countries took part in this exercise with enthusiasm and volunteer efforts.

Università degli Studi di Brescia has been awarded 8 million € by the Italian Ministry of Research for expanding internationalization and strong administrative support has been created and incremented in order to facilitate the promotion and achievement of EU grants. 

Contact: Prof Stephanié Tubert stephanie.tubert@uca.fr

The Université  Clermont Auvergne (coordinator) will be the project manager (PM) responsible for the overall operation of the project and its smooth running, financial and administrative management including the preparation of budget and reports, timeliness and accomplishment, in addition to being responsible to the EC for the activities of the consortium.

University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA) was created on January 1st, 2017 after the merge of the University Blaise Pascal (UBP) and the University of Auvergne (UdA). It is the result of a new ambition for the University to ensure more efficiently its missions of public service and to increase its presence and exposure on the local, national and international levels.

UCA relies on 5 Colleges in Law-Economics and Management, Technology and Engineering Sciences, Life sciences - Health - Environment, Literature - Languages - Social and Human Sciences and Fundamental Sciences. It counts approximately 35.000 students, among them 4.600 foreign students, and approximately 3320 employees corresponding to 1281 university lecturers and researchers and 1937 technical and adminsitrative staff. Furthermore, UCA offers more than 170 training courses from B.A to Doctorate, and counts 36 unities of research.

The University of Clermont Auvergne (UCA) has a long experience in dental education. The dental school of UCA, founded in 1947, is one of the 16 French dental schools. The UCA dental school is playing an important role for the future of the population’s oral health in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, by preparing future dentists (75 per year of study) to perform high quality, evidence-based and well-adapted dental care. In the last 50 years, scientific advances have changed the practice of dentistry. In the 21st century, dental schools have to face not only technological advances, but also public health challenges with a need to integrate oral health in a comprehensive model of health care and health promotion. Within this context, the UCA dental school is providing a high-quality teaching by preparing students to provide the best care to their partners.

The faculty has experts (clinicians, researchers, teachers) in all the domains of general dentistry along with experts in the 3 recognized French specialities (orthodontics, oral surgery, oral medicine) working together with academics from the health, biological or educational sciences fields. The faculty is engaged in research with two teams working in the field of neurosciences (NEURODOL, INSERM U1107).