The University of Pecs (UP - hereafter) is a 22,000 student university in Hungary with 10 faculties (disciplines). UP is a public higher education institution that was established in 1367 in Hungary. The UP's main disciplinary fields that it has been able to achieve a leading position in Hungary and is among the best in the region are medicine, engineering and business and economics. Today, The University of Pécs is the oldest university in Hungary and one of the largest universities in the country. With its ten faculties and 32 clinics and patient care institutions, the university offers a broad range of training and degree programmes, with more than 22,000 students and nearly 2,000 teachings and research staff. UP is considered as the Knowledge Centre of the South Transdanubian Region. In order to meet the demands and the needs of the surrounding community for continuing education, UP has started to develop its programmes within the area of lifelong learning. In addition, the university attaches great importance to training in the colleges for advanced studies. Nearly every Faculty offers training in the framework of this organisation that encourages students to pursue their own research. Altogether 20 doctoral schools at the university offer doctoral degrees that cover a wide spectrum of science, scholarship and art, ranging from classical humanities through social sciences to medical and natural sciences. Due to the credit system, first introduced in Hungary here in Pécs, an increasing number of Hungarian students participate in international study programmes as an integral part of their education and likewise, an increasing number of international students and researchers come to the University of Pécs to study and conduct research every year. Therefore, the university continuously works on expanding and improving its cooperation with other universities and international research institutions and is already part of a large network at different levels. The Szentágothai Research Centre of the University of Pécs is a new research institute established in 2012 on the basis of modern international science organizational and management normative. It covers all aspects of education, research and innovation in the fields of biomedical, natural and environmental sciences. The infrastructure, instrumentation and expertise of its 22 research groups operating on the premises provide an excellent basis to become a well-known, leading research facility in Hungary as well as in Middle-Europe with an extensive and fruitful collaboration network.

George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureş, an emblematic academic sanctuary for this area of the country, has been operating for more than seven decades. The professions for which students of our university are trained to involve, above all, the cultivation of native qualities, a range of factors and conditions: skills and knowledge based on study and research work, commitment and respect for people, humanism, generosity and tolerance, the latter being a sine qua non-part of our academic society. We are heirs and messengers of distinct cultures which have influenced each other. Their harmonization in a constructive form of multiculturalism induces a synergistic effect and is a major factor for the progress of the University. Docendo discimus – learning by teaching – is our motto. We have knowledge and values that must be passed down to those around us. Our University is more competitive as the offered courses preserve both tradition and progress achieved by a continuous upgrade to the requirements of the European labor market. UMFST has an academic community with a specific dynamic, and it is motivated to be part of a major initiative to face the challenge implied by getting involved in a competitive environment. At UMFST learn over 10700 students, enrolled in 35 bachelor programs, 38 master programs and 7 doctoral domains. The Faculty of Medicine enrolls over 3500 students in: Medicine, Nursing, Hydrotherapy, kinesiology, and medical rehabilitation, Nutrition and Dietetics. Our University offers teaching in Romanian, Hungarian, and English. All graduates can continue their training in residency programs in all medical specialties, being under the guidance of experienced

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teachers. At the same time, they can complete master or doctoral studies or continuous medical education programs. At UMFST are working a total of 1153 employees: 630 teaching staff, 295 auxiliary teaching staff and 228 contractual staff.

Located close to the heart of the Austrian capital, the Medical University of Vienna (MUW) is one of the country’s leading medical and scientific institutions. Founded in 1365 as the medical faculty of the University of Vienna, MUW became an independent university in 2004 and is now one of Europe’s most highly respected centres of medical training and research. Vienna General Hospital, which works closely with MUW, is among the largest university hospitals in the world. MUW is today the largest medical training institute in the German-speaking area with about 8,000 students. Over 107 teaching hospitals in Austria, 75 general medical practices and numerous teaching hospitals abroad are accredited for clinical practice training. MUW trains about 45% of Vienna’s specialist doctors, or 15% of all specialist doctors in Austria and has a diversified educational offering, ranging from undergraduate degrees to continuing education courses and PhD programmes: • Medicine and dentistry degree programme • Medical Informatics master’s programme • PhD programmes (18 research themes) • Applied Medical Science doctoral programme (10 research themes with a focus on clinical research) • 32 postgraduate programmes With its 30 university hospital departments, 3 clinical institutes, 12 theoretical medicine centres and numerous highly specialised laboratories, it is included among the most important cutting-edge research institutes of Europe in the area of biomedicine. MUW has 5,905 employees (3,328 women) and is one of the most important medical education, research and treatment centres in Europe. 3,935 academic staff (1,853 women) work for the university as researchers, lecturers and doctors. In 2019, five new professors were appointed and 64 post-doctoral lecturing qualifications were awarded (to 23 women and 41 men; 32 non-surgical specialists, 21 surgical specialists and 11 biomedical basic research specialists). MUW participated in a total of 71 projects with EU funding in 2020. • 57 projects in the 8th EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 • 1 projects in the 7th EU Framework Programme • 7 researchers at MUW coordinated Horizon 2020 consortia comprising European and third-country partners • 14 projects running in other programmes: 11 in Innovative Medicines Initiative, 1 in 3rd Health Programme, 2 in JUSTICE • 16 projects kicked off in 2020