Cluj School of Public Health (C-SPH) is an innovative research focused program with full English educational track in public health – BA, MPH, PhD in Cluj, Romania. This is the only Public Health program taught completely in English in the entire Central and Eastern Europe. In accordance with this, the SPH program was designed in order to prepare independent professionals in the field of Public Health at the highest standards. The program is customized so as to cover every aspect of Public Health’s field, but is also allowing students to focus on their area of interest. This way, the program brings an interdisciplinary approach on Public Health tackling five major fields: Health Policy and Management, Social and Behavioral Health, Epidemiology, Statistics, and Environmental Health.

The Department of Political Sciences envisions an integrated set of objectives and research techniques. The personnel researches democratization problems, consolidation of democracy, transition to market economy, identity politics, human rights, political culture and political parties. Our research is not focused exclusively on politics in Eastern Europe. We are constantly looking to broaden the spectrum of research issues of interest. Thus, we have developed research interests related to other geographical areas (South-Eastern Asia, Western Europe, Latin America etc.) and we constantly update curricula to include issues varying from the political sciences, such as gender studies and critical theory. The members of our department are part of some research institutions and are thus directly involved in efforts to establish design research sites, data collection and processing and even in influencing the public agenda.

PONT Group was founded in 2009. The central aim of our organization is to generate social innovation through participation in the fields of entrepreneurship and culture with a special focus on youth and digitalization. PONT Group’s central activity is to create general frameworks, programmes and to implement specific projects through intersectoral and multidisciplinary partnerships on local, regional, national and European levels. The main office of PONT Group is located in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, however, through the different projects it is active in different cities of Romania and Europe.

Cluj Cultural Centre is a non-governmental organization for culture and urban development. Initially intended to prepare the city’s candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2021, Cluj Cultural Centre implements a comprehensive program addressing strategic challenges of society. Cluj Cultural Centre has 95 members: cultural institutions and the local cultural organizations, Cluj universities, business clubs and clusters, civil society organizations, local and regional administration. We believe that culture makes cities present and human. Our mission is to mobilize culture, in partnership with other sectors, in order to contribute to the social transformation and urban development.

Fondation Botnar is a Swiss-based foundation which champions the use of AI and digital technology to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people in growing urban environments. To achieve this, the foundation supports research, catalyses diverse partners, and invests in scalable solutions around the world: www.fondationbotnar.org/.