NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS" (Coordinator)

The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR “Demokritos”) is the largest multidisciplinary research center in Greece, with critical mass in expertise and infrastructure in the fields of Nanotechnology, Energy & Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science, Informatics and Telecommunications.

The NCSR “Demokritos” conducts world-class basic and applied research, for advancing scientific knowledge and promoting technological development in selected areas of national socio-economic interest. The Center also plays a pivotal role in graduate education and professional training and its unique infrastructure is employed for high-technology services to the Industry and the Society.

Website:  http://www.demokritos.gr

ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER SA

Founded in 1987, ATC (www.atc.gr) is an Information Technology Company (SME) offering solutions and services targeting specific sectors incl. the Media, Banking and Retail Sectors, Utilities and Public Sector Organisations as well as horizontal solutions focusing on Content Management, Enterprise Software, Web Applications, Human Capital Resource Management and eLearning, and Mobile Applications. The activities of the Company span among several countries in EU, Eastern Europe and CIS countries, as well as the Balkans.

Website: http://www.atc.gr

Τwitter account: @atc_gr

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITÄT HANNOVER

Founded in 1831, Leibniz Universität Hannover is one of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany (TU 9) with around 23.500 students. More than 2.600 academics and scientists work in nine faculties with around 160 departments and institutes. The L3S Research Center (www.L3S.de) is a joint research institute of several universities in Lower Saxony, Germany formally associated with Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH). Work at L3S focuses on innovative and cutting-edge methods and technologies for Web Science, a key topic for the European Information Society, investigating the Future of Information and Communication in the Web Age. 

Website:  http://www.uni-hannover.de

UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID

UPM is one of the oldest and largest of the Spanish Technical Universities. UPM currently has more than 3000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students, and around 6.000 postgraduate students. UPM has a strong commitment to R&D and Innovation. The UPM has more than 200 Research Units and several Research Institutes and Technological Centre. The contribution of the university to knowledge creation through its scientific publications is also significant. The Centre for Biomedical Technology (CTB) was created by the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) to bring together outstanding groups of researchers and technologists, from a variety of biomedical and technological disciplines, in a stable environment of multidisciplinary research.

Website: http://www.upm.es

SERVICIO MADRILENO DE SALUD

SERVICIO MADRILEÑO DE SALUD (SERMAS) is the administrative and management structure that integrates the public health care system in the Madrid Region. SERMAS (beneficiary) is the legal representative of Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro-Majadahonda, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón and Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre.

Website: http://www.comunidad.madrid/servicios/salud

ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL

St George’s, University of London (SGUL) is the UK’s only independently governed medical and health sciences higher education institution. A college of the University of London, we have been providing medical and healthcare training for over 250 years. With approximately 6,000 students and 850 members of staff, our mission is to advance, promote and share knowledge of health through excellence in teaching, clinical practice and research into the prevention and treatment of illness.

Website:  http://www.sgul.ac.uk/

ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH UK

Alzheimer’s Research UK is Europe’s largest non-governmental funder of dementia research. We fund world class studies that give the best chance of beating dementia as quickly as possible, and our pioneering work focuses on understanding, preventing, treating and curing the diseases that cause dementia. Currently, we are supporting research projects worth over £26 million in leading Universities across the UK. We are energising a movement across society to support, fund and take part in dementia research. We help people to understand dementia and the progress we are making. We forge partnerships with government and other key organisations to make dementia research a national priority.

Website:  http://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/

GRUPO ESPANOL DE CANCER DE PULMON

Founded in 1991, it was one of the first cooperative research groups formed by oncologists that was created in Spain with the aim of advancing the cure of the disease. Since then , it has focused all its efforts on promoting and enhancing translational research, which takes place in hospitals with the participation of patients, therefore allowing rapid incorporation of advances in the treatment of disease and in daily clinical practice. 

Website: http://gecp.org/

FUNDACIO CENTRE DE REGULACIO GENOMICA

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is a non-profit foundation created as a partnership between the Catalan Government and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science and affiliated with the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). The CRG is a first-class multidisciplinary research centre focusing on biomedicine, located in the Biomedical Research Park of Barcelona (PRBB), one of the largest biomedical research clusters in southern Europe.

Website:  http://www.crg.eu/