OTH Regensburg (Germany)

OTH Regensburg is a university of applied sciences in Regensburg, Bavaria. It has over 11,000 students and over 250 professors, with fields of study including Technology and Business Studies, Computer Science and Mathematics, Social and Health Care Sciences, Architecture and Design. You can read more about OTH Regensburg, including their mission statement, here.

Expertise: Traditional & critical approaches to security & conflict, security strategies, diplomacy, intelligence, European and post-Soviet regional security, energy, nuclear disarmament, organised crime, health, migration, media and political communication, war studies and wargaming.

Contact: Dr Markus Bresinsky, Faculty General Studies & Microsystems Technology

Phone: +49 (0) 941 943 9818 Email: markus.bresinsky[at]oth-regensburg.de

Temple University (USA / Italy)

Philadelphia’s public university, Temple University was founded in 1884 and has sinced evolved into an international powerhouse in higher education and a top research institution with over 30,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. It prioritises an accessible education and innovation in higher education, groundbreaking research, and celebrating our vibrant community of students, faculty and staff.

Temple University’s Rome campus was founded in 1966, and has since provided over 12,000 alumni with an interdisciplinary, experiential and rigorous academic and cultural program that takes advantage of the splendid historical and contemporary resources Rome and Italy have to offer. It is located adjacent to Piazza di Spagna – one of the most notable landmarks in the heart of the Eternal City and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The campus is walking distance from the iconic Trevi Fountain as well as famous monuments such as the Pantheon, Villa Borghese, Villa Medici and Mausoleum of Augustus. It hosted 775 exchange students in 2024.

Expertise: Civil war, wartime violence, terrorism, US foreign relations, diplomacy, criminology & crime science, cyber security, AI.

Contact: TBC

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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

Founded in 1792, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro is Brazil’s largest federal university and one of the country’s centres of excellence in teaching and research. In addition to offering 157 undergraduate and 580 postgraduate courses, the UFRJ is responsible for seven museums, most notably the National Museum of Brazil, nine hospitals, hundreds of laboratories and research facilities and forty-three libraries. It has over 53,000 students (including over 600 international students) and nearly 4,000 faculty staff.

Expertise: Online mis/disinformation, social media policy analysis, conspiracy-led extremism, hate-speech & alternative media ecosystem, online discourses of misogyny, content moderation, AI, digital methodologies, Amazon deforestation.

Contact: TBC

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American University in Dubai (UAE)

The American University in Dubai started life as a fact-finding mission in 1991 and signified the beginning of what would become one of the region’s most respected institutions of higher education. Four years later, Elias Bou Saab from the American College in Atlanta, Georgia established the American University in Dubai, with the full commitment and support of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai. To this day, His Highness continues his unlimited support for higher education.

Today the university has over 2000 undergraduates, graduates and professionals from more than 100 countries worldwide, and seeks to empower and enable the leaders and pioneers of tomorrow. The guiding principle underlying the university’s establishment was bringing the American educational system to the region ,without interfering with or challenging the culture or values of the local community. The institution achieved this goal and, to this day, considers it a key to its success.

Expertise: International Diplomacy, International Relations, Global Governance, Security Studies, Politics of the Middle East.

Contact: TBC

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Macquarie University, Australia

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais,Brazil

Knowmad, Denmark

Hozint – Horizon Intelligence, Belgium

Prague Security Studies Institue (PSSI), Czechia

Council for European Studies, Philadelphia, USA

More partners will be added here in due course.

For a list of our previous associate academic partners for programme editions prior to 2026, please see here.