The IASS conducts research with the goal of identifying, advancing, and guiding processes of social change towards sustainable development in Germany and abroad. Its research practice is transdisciplinary, transformative, and co-creative. The IASS cooperates with partners in academia, political institutions, administrations, civil society, and the business community to understand sustainability challenges and generate potential solutions. A strong network of national and international partners supports the work of the institute. Among its central research topics are the energy transition, emerging technologies, climate change, air quality, systemic risks, governance and participation, and cultures of transformation. The institute is funded by the research ministries of the Federal Government of Germany and the State of Brandenburg.

Rey Juan Carlos University is a Spanish public research university located in the southern area of the Community of Madrid, with five campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro, Aranjuez and Fuenlabrada.

The mission of Riga Stradins University is to train high-quality healthcare and social science professionals for the European and global community; to ensure that the knowledge, skills, competences and attitudes acquired during the studies are in line with the highest European Union requirements and humane traditions, and form a solid basis for lifelong learning. The Doctoral programme in Political Science provides studies based on theoretical and methodological foundations of political science that are relevant to the needs of Latvia and Europe, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary themes (medicine, education, energy, security policy, linguistic aspects of politics, cultural dimension), regional studies (Russia, China, Japan, Turkey), and Latvia-related comprehensive research.

The University of Groningen is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country.

Roskilde University is a Danish public university founded in 1972 and located in Trekroner in the Eastern part of Roskilde. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within social sciences, the humanities, and natural sciences.

Royal Holloway, University of London, formally incorporated as Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, is a public research university and a member institution of the federal University of London.

The political science department includes chairs of comparative politics, international relations, German politics, regional studies and gender studies

Heidelberg University defines itself as an internationally networked research university dedicated to research-oriented teaching.

Doing political science means dealing with political processes and phenomena, understanding, interpreting and describing them. This can happen in different ways and levels. At the Institute for Political Science at RWTH Aachen, these different approaches are represented by the three sub-areas “Political Theory and History of Ideas”, “Political Systems” and “International Relations”. We are also home to the teaching and research area of ​​“Didactics of the Social Sciences”.

Saarland University is a public research university located in Saarbrücken, the capital of the German state of Saarland. It was founded in 1948 in Homburg in co-operation with France and is organized in six faculties that cover all major fields of science.

The Sapienza University of Rome (Sapienza – Università di Roma), formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ('Wisdom'), is a public research university located in Rome, Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is as such one of the world's oldest universities, and with 122,000 students, it is the largest university in Europe.

Sciences Po Bordeaux is one of the ten French Institutes of Political Studies. Founded in 1948, it now has more than 2,300 students, including all statuses. The school is located in the heart of an exceptional university site, the Pessac-Talence-Gradignan campus, 20 minutes from the center of Bordeaux. It is a public institution of higher education of an administrative nature, which is associated with the University of Bordeaux by agreement. It is part of the Conférence des Grandes Écoles and the Convention de Coopération Territoriale de Nouvelle-Aquitaine.