The University of Helsinki is Finland’s largest and oldest academic institution and an innovative centre of science and thinking. Since 1640, It has contributed to the establishment of a fair and equal society that is considered one of the best in the world. Today, its multidisciplinary academic community solves problems that affect us all – with the power of knowledge, for the world.

The University of Iceland, founded in 1911, is a progressive educational and scientific institution, renowned in the global scientific community for its research. It is a state university, situated in the heart of Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland. The University of Iceland is organised into five schools: Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Education, Natural Sciences and Engineering, offering over four hundred different courses of study.

The University of Iceland is the only university in Iceland offering undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in all major academic fields. The University of Iceland has a great deal to offer both exchange and regular international students, on all academic levels, and most faculties offer courses in English.

JYU is one of the largest and most popular multidisciplinary research universities in Finland. Its campus is home to a dynamic and collaborative community of almost 2,600 experts and 15,000 students. Of all universities in the world, JYU is among the top three percent and represents the best of the world in several of its disciplines.

The University of Lapland combines science and art at the Arctic Circle in Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland. Its academic fields are education, law, art and design, social sciences, and northern and Arctic issues. It creates new knowledge, skills, and expertise for the North and for the world.

The University of Northern British Columbia is one of Canada's best small universities. With a core campus in Prince George and regional campuses throughout northern BC, UNBC recognizes the importance of quality teaching, personal attention, ground-breaking research, and being relevant to the North.

The University of Oslo (UiO) was founded in 1811 as the first in Norway. Today it is the country’s largest public institution of research and higher learning with nearly 28,000 students and almost 7,000 employees.

The University of Oulu, founded in 1958, is today one of the largest and leading universities in Finland. The university operates in eight major fields: Humanities, Education, Economics, Natural Sciences, Technology (incl. Architecture), Medicine, Dentistry and Health Care, distributed in six faculties.

A public liberal arts and science institution committed to fostering critical, creative and independent thinking.

The University of Reading has been at the forefront of UK higher education for nearly a century. Over the decades it has become innovators and pioneers, pushing academic boundaries and leading social change.

It strives to create a stronger, better University, building on its past to create an exceptional future. Its four guiding principles form the foundation of its strategies: a genuine love of learning, creating new knowledge, embracing and celebrating diversity of people and ideas, and caring for our environment.

USask is one of the top research-intensive, medical doctoral universities in Canada, and is home to world-leading research in areas of global importance, such as water and food security and infectious diseases.

The University of Southern Denmark welcomed the first students onto the campus in Odense in September 1966, and things have been developing by leaps and bounds ever since. It now have five faculties with more than 27,000 students, almost 20% of whom are from abroad, and more than 3,800 employees distributed across its main campus in Odense and regional campuses in Slagelse, Kolding, Esbjerg and Sønderborg. Several international studies document that it conducts world-class research and are one of the top fifty young universities in the world.

The University of Stavanger is an innovative and international university. It constitutes as a driving force in the development of knowledge and change processes in society. Its societal mission is to challenge the well-known and explore the unknown.

The University of the Arctic (UArctic) is a network of universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the North.

UArctic builds and strengthens collective resources and infrastructures that enable member institutions to better serve their constituents and their regions.

The University of the Faroe Islands was founded in 1965 under the Latin name Academia Færoensis.

The institution is the primary higher education and research institution in the Faroe Islands, the nation’s only university and its foremost knowledge centre. It undertakes research and research-based teaching, providing for synergy between research and teaching, to serve the evolving needs and priorities of the Faroes and their wider region.

Founded in 1827, the University of Toronto is Canada’s top university with a long history of challenging the impossible and transforming society through the ingenuity and resolve of its faculty, students, alumni and supporters.

University of Turku is an active international research university and a vibrant academic community of 25,000 students and employees from over 100 different countries.

Excellence in teaching, innovative research and an inclusive community at Vancouver Island University prepare students for success in every aspect of life.

VIU is a public university on the west coast of Canada with campuses on the traditional territory of the Snuneymuxw, Quw’utsun, Tla’amin, Snaw-naw-as and Qualicum First Nations.

For more than 50 years, it has been committed to providing solutions to the challenges of tomorrow. They achieve this through high-quality research, customised education and a strong social drive. It anchor itself in Brussels and Europe and work according to the principles of the Enlightenment: critical thinking, free enquiry, and humanism.

VU Amsterdam is a unique university with faculties in the humanities, STEM, social sciences and medical sciences. Its education and research are closely linked. It combines its top positions in research with a strong social orientation, which has resulted in an excellent international reputation. Its education and research are distinctly multidisciplinary. This is reinforced by the fact that its faculties are all located on one campus. It is a true campus university in the heart of the Zuidas Knowledge District, sharing its excellent national and international position and accessibility.

The Wilp Wilxo’oskwhl Nisga’a Institute is a community driven, student focused aboriginal post-secondary institute located in the picturesque Nass Valley of Northern BC. It is the university-college in the Nass Valley. The WWNI incorporated in 1993 in an initiative from the Nisga’a Tribal Council (now referred to as Nisga’a Lisims Government) to provide quality post-secondary education and training to people within the Nisga’a community, and to ensure the survival of Nisga’a language and culture.