UNIVERZA V MARIBORU

The University of Maribor (UM) is an autonomous scientific, research, and educational public institution. It is the second largest and the second oldest Slovene university with 1.960 employees and approximately 14.000 students who study at the 17 faculties. UM is developing scientific disciplines, which cover sustainability, ecosystems discipline, engineering, biotechnology, humanities, medicine, social sciences, multilingual communication, and natural sciences. The University’s mission and vision emphasize the importance of concern for interpersonal relations and a creative working environment, enabling the well-being of employees and students. With its nineteen member institutions, the University of Maribor is turning into a central development institution attracting talented students from all over the world and providing a development context where excellence is at home at all levels. The development of the first Slovene nanosatellite going into space, the success of the students participating in the Student Formula project, permanent high scores in the Imagine Cup international student competition for innovativeness, technological solutions, and development, the prestigious Reimagine Education award for the Demola project where students work on concrete solutions to various challenges in companies, and cooperating in the establishment of the world-class national supercomputer "HPC Vega" are only a few examples of UM's most notable achievements. The management is aware that close ties between the university as a central educational and research institution and its local environment and the industry are of the utmost importance. The management is also well aware of the fact of how important it is to develop healthy lifestyle habits among students and offer various free-of-charge sports activities (e.g. open-air fitness and the University's Sports Centre). UM is a regional developer with the vision to be a globally recognized ecosystem of innovation in which the students, faculty, and administrative staff will enthusiastically engage in creative activity. UM aims to promote partnerships with businesses, governmental and non-governmental, and other institutions in society to enrich university teaching, research, and creative activity; prepare educated, engaged citizens; strengthen democratic and ethical values and civic responsibility; address critical societal issues; respect ecological and environmental issues; promote sustainability in development and contribute to the public good. With its nineteen member institutions (17 faculties, the University's Library, and the Univesity's Dormitories) and an excellent strategical internationalization, UM isturning into a central development institution attracting talented students from all over the world and providing a development context where excellence is at home at all levels. International projects always involve students and are based on their needs. Various international awards prove that the university is highly recognizable on the national and international levels. This year, UM was ranked among the best global universities and earned the highest score among Slovene universities on Times Higher Education World University Rankings, examining how universities fulfill their primary mission in different areas. In 2014, UM also received an award for the well-being of foreign students at HE institutions. In Slovenia and abroad, UM is recognized as a university providing students with an excellent learning experience. The project EDU-FIT expects to contribute significantly to this creative and development-oriented story by offering the students well-developed and consistent didactic tools for preventing obesity, developing healthy lifestyle habits, and being fit for their future professions, jobs, and in general, their life quality. 

KLINIČKI BOLNIČKI CENTAR ZAGREB (UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CENTRE ZAGREB) 

The State Referral Centre for the Treatment of Obesity of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb), is part of the largest health institution in the Republic of Croatia, University Hospital Centre Zagreb UHC Zagreb. UHC Zagreb provides basic care and highly sophisticated medical procedures for healthcare users from Croatia and abroad. It is a publicly funded teaching hospital offering general and advanced medical care. With over ~1800 beds and 5470 employees, it is the largest and most advanced medical facility in Croatia. Particular emphasis is put on the interdisciplinary and individual approach to each user. It is a part of the high academic education- at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb. Besides providing basic healthcare, the hospital is up to date with the latest treatment methods, implemented into everyday work, and per strict scientific criteria. This is evident in the fact that the hospital is the base for 70 referral centers of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, whose task is to continuously monitor and systematically promote particular areas of medicine in our country. One of them is the State Referral Centre for the Treatment of Obesity. The State Referral Centre for the Treatment of Obesity of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia is also accredited by the European association for the study of obesity (EASO) Collaborating Centre for Obesity Management. It is a pan-European network of accredited centers by accepted European and academic guidelines. This network ensures that obese and overweight patients are managed by a holistic team of specialists and receive comprehensive state-of-the-art clinical care.Furthermore, while working under the umbrella of EASO, quality control, data collection, analysis, and education and research for advancing obesity care and obesity science are ensured. The management of obesity in the Centre includes in dividual and group treatment with multidisciplinary healthcare focusing on lifestyle changes, pharmacotherapy, and obesity surgery. It also collaborates with Croatian society in the treatment of obesity. State Referral Centre for the Treatment of Obesity of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia is conducting many scientific preclinical and clinical studies. The members of the Centre are involved in patient advocacy, such as raising awareness of obesity, avoiding stigmatization in daily terminology, and publishing brochures and booklets. With such experience, we believe that we can provide data for the educational materials by a multidisciplinary healthcare team (endocrinologist-diabetologist specialized for obesity, nutritionist, physiotherapist, psychiatrist and psychologists) targeting the young student population. Since the UHC Zagreb is also part of the School of Medicine and both theoretical and practical part of the study is performed at the Obesity center this project will have a positive impact on our students too. 

EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE 

The Faculty of Applied Languages (the University of Economics) provides education in the domain of languages andintercultural communication with a focus on applied linguistics, translatology, and terminology. In this project Faculty of Applied languages will be involved in developing a new curriculum and coordinating an interactive app for didactic purposes. Furthermore, in the submitted project, the Faculty should become a bridge by engaging experts across multidisciplinary teams to offer their expertise and bring solutions based on comparability, transparency, flexibility, and sustainability of the whole project proposal. The University of Economics (EUBA) is a leading public university in Slovakia. It has extensive experience in research and teaching in Economics, Business, Finance, Management, and International Relations, as well as foreign languages for specific purposes, translation, interpreting, and terminology corpora. The EUBA has more than 7 000 students in its seven faculties, and it is Slovakia's most important center of education and research in these disciplines. Its faculties prepare students for careers in state administration, embassies, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and private multi-national corporations. For the past years, it has consistently topped theranking in terms of graduate employment rates. The University uses quality standards compliant with ENQA. EUBA has been involved in various national and international projects (e.g. Erasmus, CEEPUS, Horizon Europe). The Faculty of Applied languages provides education in the domain of languages and intercultural communication, focusing on applied linguistics, translatology, and terminology. The Faculty of Applied languages at the University of Economics has been involved in several research projects, namely: PROMINENCE - Promoting mindful encounters through intercultural competence and experience (Tempus), CORALL - Coaching-oriented Online Resources for the Autonomous Learning of LSP (Tempus), MAGYC – Migration Governance and Asylum Crisis (Horizon 2020), Terminology database used in hunting (national project), The language of right-wing extremism. A political, linguistic perspective (national project), Language in the city – documenting the multimodal semiosphere of the language landscape in Slovakia and from a comparative perspective (APVV), The influence of the audio blog web application on the development of language skills, listening comprehension and speaking in foreign language teaching (national project). The Faculty of Applied Languages focuses on interdisciplinary cooperation in close intercultural and interlingual communication, training translators, interpreters, or linguists/terminologists, and cooperates with external institutions, e.g. Directorate General for Translation of the EU Commission, Association of translation companies, Slovak Association of translators of technical and scientific literature, Non-profit organization EDUMA, and others. The EUBA students are also allowed to engage in joint project initiatives. The faculty of Applied languages will be involved in developing a multilingual curriculum for a new course on preventing obesity and developing healthy lifestyle habits and coordinating an interactive app for didactic purposes in this project.  

SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU FILOZOFSKI FAKULTET 

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS), the University of Zagreb, is the oldest and largest Croatian scientific and higher education institution in the humanities and social sciences, as well as an important cultural institution with a significant influence in Croatian culture and society. The mission is to be a national leader and global partner in creating and transmitting knowledge that shapes a more humane society. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences offers 92 university study programs, of which 44 are undergraduate, 47 graduate, and 1 integrated undergraduate and graduate study program. The Faculty offers 15 university postgraduate (doctoral) programs and 6 postgraduate specialized study programs. Faculty has 590 full and associate professors, assistant professors, senior lectors, lectors, senior lecturers, lecturers, and post-doctoral researchers, and 162 members of the professional, support, and other staff (librarians, technicalstaff, secretaries, administrators) and about 7000 students of all levels.  At the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, students are provided with opportunities to explore various fields of Humanities such as history, archaeology, philosophy, ethnology, anthropology, history of art, languages literature and linguistics, as well as social sciences such as psychology, sociology, pedagogy, and information sciences. The Department of information and communication sciences, comprising 27professors and assistants, offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies. Every year, 100 students are enrolled in this study program. The Department consists of chairs covering teaching and research in the domains of informatics, archival sciences and documentation, librarianship, museology, books and publishing, media, and Natural Language Processing. Information sciences have developed national cooperation with institutions, agencies, society, other educational institutions, government, libraries, museums, etc., and international cooperation with a range of projects, visiting lectures, and research activities. In the research work, special attention is given to research related to using of IT in society with an interdisciplinary approach, including Natural Language Processing, Artificial intelligence, Knowledge organization, etc. International cooperation is reflected through numerous research papers, cooperation activities, invited lectures, and projects. Besides other numerous projects, Department has the following projects, which are specifically relevant for the project, related to multilingual machine translation and other language technologies used in IT and in the domain of healthcare. 

1. Development of Virtual Assistant and Machine Translation Resources from specialized domains by AI techniques (VirasIntel) (Institutional project, 2021) 

2. Disruptive technologies in knowledge creation: machine learning and data analytics with implementation in specialized domains (grant supported by University of Zagreb) 2019 

3. Information Technology in Computer-Assisted Translation of Croatian and in e-Language Learning (130-1300646-0909 national scientific project, financed by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport) 2007-2013 

4. ACCURAT – Analysis and evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under-Resourced Areas of machine Translation, (January 2010.- June 2012.) 

5. LetsMT! – Platform for Online Sharing of Training Data and Building User Tailored Machine Translation, (March 2010.-August 2012.) 

6. i2 curriculum development in the field of information science, Program: Tempus project Aspects of organization and information systems: curriculum development, European Commission (Directorate General for Education, 2002.-2005. (11 partners) 

Universidade do Porto/Porto4Ageing

The Competences Centre on Active and Healthy Ageing of the University of Porto (Porto4Ageing) competency center is a four-starred Reference Site and Partner Plus of the European Innovation Partnership and Healthy Ageing of the European Commission, bringing together over 90 organizations, most of them established within the Porto Metropolitan Area, in the Northern Region of Portugal. The partnership is built upon the quadruple helix approach – it involves different stakeholders (regional governments and health and care providers, academia and research, industry, and civil society), which are in agood position to drive structural changes far beyond the scope of any organization could achieve on its own, aiming to funded projects, Erasmus + (“Green Digital Diversity”, “V.I.B.E”, “CONNECT”. “Ages”) and other programs (“IN-4-AHA”, “BEAMER”, EIT Health Hub”). Furthermore, the Competence Centre is responsible for developing, validating, implementing, and evaluating a running discipline in the Faculty of Pharmacy – Digital Health. Hence, UPorto, via Porto4Ageing can contribute to the project by providing expertise in the field of education, specifically in digital health, by supporting the development of content regarding the usage of digital health tools to control and combat obesity. University of Porto (UPORTO, www.up.pt) is Portugal’s second-largest university and one of the most prestigious teaching and research institutions in the country. It has around1600 non-teaching staff, over 31.000 students (around 1500 from foreign countries), and 2300 full-time academic staff, twothirds of which are post-graduates. This high qualification level of the teaching staff, combined with advanced lab technology and equipment, as well as the close connections with the business world, ensure first-class training, which is fully recognized by the labor market. As the biggest producer of science in Portugal, UPORTO provides an exceptional variety of courses (over 600 training programs per year) covering the whole range of study areas and all levels of higher education, from degrees to lifelong education courses. Currently, UPORTO hosts almost 50 research centers (9 of them are state-associated labs) covering a wide range of areas, from the humanities to sciences and technologies, and six competence centers in the fields of cybersecurity, aging, biomechanics, media, ocean, and materials research. Evaluated by international panels of independent experts in assessments by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, more than half of these research units have been awarded “Excellent” and “Very Good”. Many of these centers are used asinterfaces for institutions, bringing the University together, as a main partner, along with other organizations representing external interests. Assuming itself as a Research University, UPORTO is responsible for over 20% of the Portuguese scientific papers indexed each year in the ISI - Web of Science (ISI-WoS). The competences center for active and healthy aging from the University of Porto (Porto4Ageing www.porto4ageing.up.pt) currently lectures a Digital Health course in the Faculty of Pharmacy (https://sigarra.up.pt/ffup/en/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=515765), and an adult/senior entrepreneurship course (https://www.porto4ageing.up.pt/formacao-de-empreendedorismo-para-adultos-nauniversidade- do-porto/). Hence, Porto4Ageing has extensive teaching experience, mainçy in the fields of health and business support. .

San Astra

Established in 2018, SanAstra Foundation aims to empower individuals and improve quality of life of patients by improving their health literacy and (digital) health literacy. Our vision is to fill the communication gap between health professionals and patients, to make sure no one is ever alone with a challenge of not understanding what the doctor told. Our mission is to raise awareness about (digital) health literacy globally and one of our ongoing projects is providing a platform of a video library of stories and experiences in the ”doctors’ office”, designed to empower both patients and health professionals and to enable experience-based knowledge. We are working to continuously grow our diverse collection of storytelling short videos where both, patients and health professionals can share unique real-life experiences related to navigating care through a health system, specifically exploring doctorpatient relationships. Our hope is for everyone to be able to learn from and support each other, and for educators and patient organizations to be able to use our content to their benefit. SanAstra Foundation is an NGO, based in Oslo, Norway with an international board of directors, from Norway, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Indonesia.  If you need more information, please visit our website: www.sanastra.com.