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8 European Partner universities.

University of Natural Resoruces and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
http://www.boku.ac.at

Founded in 1872, the "BOKU" now comprises 14 departments and four service centres in Vienna, as well as a number of experimental centres around Vienna. The principal university buildings are located in two areas, the Türkenschanze and Muthgasse. At Türkenschanze are located the departments which provide teaching and research in the agricultural sciences, forestry, wood technology, and landscape architecture and conservation; whereas the departments concerned with food science, biotechnology, land and water management and civil engineering are based at Muthgasse.

The university has around 6.500 students (of which 17% are international), provides courses at the bachelor, masters and doctoral levels, has 340 permanent teaching staff who are also engaged in research, a broad range of external lecturers (teaching staff total: 1340), and some 400 persons working in services and administration.

In order to fulfil the requirements of the EU's Bologna Agreement with respect to curriculum development, the university has redesigned its course structure, which now comprises 9 Bachelors and 20 Masters Courses, including four international Masters held entirely in English. The change will improve comparability of studies and transparency at the international level.
Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS - SGGW)
http://www.sggw.pl

is the oldest agricultural academic school in Poland, its history dates back to 1816. At present, the university consists of 13 faculties and 5 interfaculty units; there are 25,000 students enrolled. International collaboration plays an important role in University activities. WULS collaborates with 170 international partners worldwide. On an annual basis, about 800 University employees and students travel internationally. WULS is a member of international organizations such as the European Universities Association (EUA), International Association of Universities (IAU), International Association of University Presidents (IAUP), Interuniversity Consortium for Agricultural and Related Sciences (ICA), Euroleague for Life Sciences - ELLS. The University is active among Polish minorities in Lithuania, Ukraine and Belarus by offering modern education programs and highly qualified experts.
Wageningen University
http://www.wageningen-university.nl

is a collaboration between Wageningen University, Van Hall Larenstein School of Higher Professional Education and the specialised former research institutes (DLO) from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. This combination of knowledge and experience enables WU with its 7.000 staff and more than 9.000 students to contribute actively to solving scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. WU participates as co-ordinator or partner in a number of multi-million education and research projects with different countries, including several Asian countries. The Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of the Social Science Department coordinates the Asia-Link RECREATE project (~ 500,000€). This Department coordinates a KNAW-funded project with China (~ 1 Mio.€.) + a Nuffic-funded education project with Guatemala (~ 1.473 Mio.€) to name only a few.
Humboldt University of Berlin
http://www.agrar.hu-berlin.de/wisola/fg/ress

is one of the first-class universities in Germany; with more than 35000 students and about 2600 scientific staff members, among them 359 professors. HU is the No. 1 recipient of ERASMUS students in Germany with about 900 ERASMUS students from 27 countries. It has established adequate management, student service and international cooperation facilities at central university level as well as at the individual faculties. At the Faculty of Agriculture, currently an ERASMUS Mundus Master is running under the local coordination of the Division of Resource Economics.
Göteborg University
http://www.hgu.gu.se/item.aspx?id=3505

and in particular the School of Business, Economics and Law, has wide experience in international cooperation including Erasmus programs and Erasmus Mundus projects. Specifically in the area of environmental and natural resource economics the Department of Economics has been running a capacity building program for Sida since 1991, including a PhD program, specialization courses and support to 6 centers in developing countries (total budget: 3.4 million Euro/year).
The University of Manchester
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/economics/about/staff/wossink/

is already a successful partner in two Erasmus Mundus projects (i) Law and Economics and (ii) Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management MESPOM, as well as in small and large international research projects e.g. Manchester Seattle Composite Partnership (MSCP) and managing European and international cooperation agreements with more than 200 universities worldwide for exchange and research purposes.
National University of Ireland, Dublin
http://www.ucd.ie/gpep/gpepinfo/

The School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy, UCD has extensive experience in coordinating and leading DG Research projects as well as other international and national projects, most recently as co-ordinator of CATEP (Concerted Action on Emissions Trading, 13 partner), and CAMBI (Market based instruments, 6 partners), GREENSPACE (7 partners), and partners in CAVA (Voluntary Agreements), PETRAS (Policies for Environmental Tax Reform: An assessment of Social Responses) TRANSUSTSCAN, ACRE, MILUNET and PLUREL. The University also provides support and management expertise on a central basis in the Office of Funded Research for all large-scale projects and the School has a dedicated Research manager with experience managing and reporting to large international and national projects.
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
http://www.czu.cz
is the oldest agricultural university in the Czech Republic. The history of the University started with the establishment of the Department of Agriculture at the Czech Technical University Prague in October 26, 1906, by the Decree of Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria. At present, the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CULS Prague) has five faculties and two institutes: Faculty of Agrobiology, Food and Natural Resources, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Management and Faculty of Technology, Institute of Tropics and Subtropics and Institute of Education and Communication.

The University is a very important education establishment with more than 20,000 students who, together with about 1,200 staff (teachers, researchers, technicians and administrative staff), constitute an University academic community where each of them has his or her own role. CULS Prague belongs among the leading Czech universities, which has been proved both in the international evaluation and by its successful graduates in all fields of agriculture and related sectors.

CULS Prague is proud of its current position within the Czech educational system and of its extensive international cooperation. University students and professors from all EU countries as well as from other regions and continents come to CULS Prague to study and share experience or participate in international conferences and workshops.