Our partners 13 organisations from 10 countries, bringing research, education and technology together.
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Bern University of Applied Sciences
Organization profile
Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) is a practice-oriented higher education institution with strong expertise in applied research, innovation and knowledge transfer. Within BFH, the Institute for Digital Technology Management (IDTM) combines competencies in digitalization, sustainable transformation, entrepreneurship, and digital learning. The institute has experience in interdisciplinary and international research projects, including EU-funded initiatives that connect education, technology, and responsibility.
Role in THRIVE
BFH leads the overall implementation of THRIVE, coordinates partners and activities, monitors progress, and ensures the quality and timely delivery of project outputs. The BFH team will also support the research activities by contributing methodological expertise and foster interdisciplinary collaboration across the consortium.
Graz University of Technology
Organization profile
TU Graz is located in the centre of Graz, the second biggest city in Austria. With eight institutions of higher education, Graz is a real student city and is regarded as one of the cities of central Europe and the European Union with the highest quality of life. TU Graz has a >3800 staff members, > 13.000 regular students, 7, faculties, 96 institutes, and three campus locations in Graz. Excellent research, teaching, as well as societal impact are part of TU Graz’ mission.
Within THRIVE, the Institute of Human-Centred Computing combines research and teaching on the design of human-computer interactions, computational approaches to study human behavior and social dynamics as well as the constitutive role of digital technologies in society. Viktoria Pammer-Schindler’s group is experienced in human-centred AI, learning technologies, designing for reflection, and interdisciplinary and mixed methods research.
Role in THRIVE
TUG leads the empirical mixed methods research design, and will play an active role in conceptualizing and designing technology support for reflection, and intervention evaluation.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Organisation profile
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) specialises in social sciences. As part of LSE, the Information Systems and Innovation Faculty (ISI) Research Group at LSE studies digital innovation in a variety of human activity contexts, including business, health care, government, and developing countries. In their research, the ISI group engages critically with the construction and management of digital technologies that open immense opportunities for material and social improvements of life conditions but also unprecedented risks as they disrupt existing areas of human activity.
Role in THRIVE
LSE supports the conceptualisation and research design phases, helping to shape the project’s framework and methodology, as well as data analysis. LSE also brings a particular interest in the ethical questions raised by its research and outcomes.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Organisation profile
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is Norway’s biggest university, with headquarters in Trondheim, Gjøvik, and Ålesund. NTNU’s main profile is in science and technology, combined with a wide academic breadth that supports interdisciplinary research on complex societal challenges, in line with the university’s vision, “Knowledge for a better world”. The Resilience Center at the Department of Psychology (Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences) has competence in quantitative and qualitative research, applied in international and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Role in THRIVE
NTNU Resilience Center’s responsibility is to ensure rigorous validation and comprehensive analysis of project outcomes through a mixed-methods approach. NTNU also maps THRIVE data against large-scale international surveys and is responsible for the project’s Open Science work.
Centre for Social Innovation
Organisation profile
Centre for Social Innovation (CSI) is a Research and Development organization focused on fostering social innovation to drive positive change at local, national, regional, and global levels. CSI works with a wide range of stakeholders, including governments, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and private sector entities. The organization brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, entrepreneurs, project managers, trainers, and IT developers. CSI has strong expertise in identifying social needs, designing and implementing tailored initiatives, and promoting sustainable development. Its areas of work include education and e-learning, entrepreneurship, innovation, data analytics, information technologies, project management, and social responsibility. CSI leverages an extensive global network of academic institutions, public services, and industry partners to enhance its impact.
Role in THRIVE
CSI leads THRIVE’s field implementation in Cyprus, supporting school recruitment, local pilots and data collection. It also contributes to data analysis and the development of the project’s evidence-based frameworks. Through its school networks and cooperation with the Cyprus Ministry of Education, CSI will support the national uptake of THRIVE results and knowledge exchange through E-well+ Connect.
Eticas Research and Consulting
Organisation profile
Eticas is a research and consulting organisation specialising in AI auditing and the social impact of technology. It combines technical analysis with expertise in human rights and data protection to assess how AI systems perform and affect people. Its work examines data quality, bias, fairness and transparency, helping organisations identify problems and make practical improvements to their systems.
Role in THRIVE
Eticas leads THRIVE’s work on ethics, legal compliance and safeguarding. It helps partners meet EU and national requirements when working with young people and schools, from the first co-design sessions through to the release of research data. This includes coordinating ethics approvals and data protection impact assessments in each country where fieldwork takes place, and helping partners establish clear procedures for consent, child safeguarding and data protection. Eticas also develops guidance on responsible AI use in classrooms and audits the ORBITA reflection tool for fairness, transparency and human oversight.
Enchatted
Organisation profile
Enchatted is a boutique research-based software studio based in Thessaloniki, Greece. It builds conversational AI systems, computer vision models and custom web applications, combining a research team that includes five doctorate holders in computer science with a delivery team that has served more than 135 clients in education, healthcare and industry. Recent work includes, among others, AI tools for the Stanford d.school, GAIA, the tutorial agent Enchatted leads in the Erasmus+ project L2BGreen, and PLAYFOOD, a game-based learning platform for primary schools. Its focus is turning research designs into products that people actually use, particularly in education and AI-assisted learning.
Role in THRIVE
Enchatted leads Work Package 5, Technical Development, and builds ORBITA, the open-source reflection tool at the centre of the project. It is responsible for the interaction design, the multimodal reflection experience, the AI-guided feedback modules, and the hosting, security and data architecture behind them. Enchatted works with the research and field work partners so that the platform supports the school trials and delivers analysis-ready data.
101skills GmbH / fobizz
Organisation profile
fobizz is an education technology company based in Hamburg, Germany, and the leading German-language platform for teacher professional development, AI tools and teaching materials. It combines more than 450 certified online courses with GDPR-compliant AI tools and ready-to-use interactive open educational resources, used by over 10,000 schools and 650,000 teachers. Its team of more than 50 people brings together computer science, educational science, media pedagogy and industry experience, working alongside independent authors from schools, research and the digital sector. fobizz works directly with individual teachers, schools, school providers and whole federal states and cantons. Its focus is turning new technology, most recently generative AI, into formats that hold up under everyday classroom conditions.
Role in THRIVE
fobizz leads Work Package 11, Exploitation and Replication, and is responsible for ensuring that THRIVE’s findings, tools and resources are taken up and sustained beyond the project. It develops the exploitation and replication strategy, designs E-Well+ Connect as the platform through which results reach schools and stakeholders, and packages the findings into an open-licensed School Implementation Toolkit. It then orchestrates replication beyond the pilot schools through partnerships with school networks and authorities and a train-the-trainer model, keeping an eye on what schools can realistically implement.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Organisation profile
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a leading Italian non-profit research institute based in Trento, working across digital technologies, artificial intelligence and the humanities and social sciences. Its research is driven by societal impact and close collaboration with public institutions, industry and civil society. FBK contributes to THRIVE through its Digital Health Research unit (DHRES), part of the Center for Digital Health & Wellbeing, which designs and evaluates digital interventions for health, mental well-being and prevention. The unit combines expertise in human-centred design, psychology and mixed-methods evaluation, and has extensive experience in large-scale field studies
Role in THRIVE
FBK leads Work Package 6 (Field work and implementation), which brings THRIVE’s research design into schools across Europe and governs all data collection in the project. FBK coordinates the recruitment of schools and student cohorts across partner countries, including multilingual materials and consent procedures for minors. It then leads local pilots to test field protocols and instruments before scale-up, and supervises full-scale fieldwork with local teams through monitoring, helpdesk support and quality assurance routines. FBK also sets up the project’s research governance framework, covering ethics, child safeguarding and data management, including a Fieldwork Oversight Group. In Italy, FBK leads the national pilot site. FBK also contributes to the empirical research design and to the analysis of project data.
University of Vienna
Organisation profile
Founded in 1365, the University of Vienna is one of Europe’s oldest universities and is renowned for its excellent research. It offers a broad range of degree programs across disciplines, including social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences. With a diverse student community and partnerships with more than 400 universities worldwide, the institution fosters academic exchange and cultural diversity. Combining centuries of history with modern innovation, the University of Vienna is an important center for education, research, and personal and professional development in Europe.
Role in THRIVE
The University of Vienna contributes to the THRIVE project through its expertise in child and adolescent development in school contexts and well-being assessment. Its role includes supporting the conceptual development and research design of the field deployment, as well as coordinating data collection in Austria. This involves recruiting schools, implementing fieldwork, and overseeing its supervision to ensure the quality and consistency of data collection.
IDEC
Organisation profile
IDEC SA in a consulting and training company, established in 1989 in Piraeus, Greece. It specialises in providing training, management consulting, quality assurance, and digital solutions for both private and public sectors. IDEC has been active the last 35 years in the field of EU projects and has been involved in various European projects, in difference sectors, funded from different directorates. IDEC maintains a Lifelong Learning Center, providing comprehensive training for professionals, adults, educators and youth at both national and European levels.
Role in THRIVE
IDEC leads THRIVE’s communication and dissemination activities, the development of policy briefs and the European policy roundtable. In addition, IDEC contributes to the project’s fieldwork in Greece by supporting school and participant recruitment, implementing the local pilot and administering the surveys and related data-collection activities. Through these complementary roles, IDEC helps generate evidence in Greece and ensures that THRIVE’s findings and results reach and engage its priority audiences.
Aarhus University
Organisation profile
Since its founding in 1928, Aarhus University (AU) has grown to become a leading public university with international impact and reach across the entire research spectrum. This breadth gives the university a strong vantage point from which to combine disciplines in the creation of research breakthroughs, and to establish close collaboration with many sectors to the benefit of society as a whole.AU is consistently ranked as one of the world’s top universities. It was ranked number 69 in the latest Shanghai ranking and is among the world’s 100 best universities in 18 out of 48 subjects in the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject. AU has around 38,000 students, 10,700 employees, 1,800 PhD-students and close to 1,000 postdoctoral scholars. Internationalisation is at the heart of AU’s mission and activities. For example, 10 % of the main student body is from abroad, and 25% of AU’s salaried research has a foreign nationality.
Role in THRIVE
AU’s role includes supporting the conceptual development and research design of the field deployment, as well as coordinating data collection in Denmark. This involves recruiting schools, implementing fieldwork, and overseeing its supervision to ensure the quality and consistency of data collection.
University of Kassel
Organisation profile
The Information Systems group (Wirtschaftsinformatik) at the University of Kassel, led by Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister, studies how digital technologies can be designed to benefit people and organisations. Its work covers collaboration engineering, digitization of work, IT innovation and management, service engineering, strategic IT management and ubiquitous computing, with growing attention to digital education and generative AI. Its interdisciplinary team brings together backgrounds in information systems, computer science, business, psychology, pedagogy and neuroscience. The group has carried out a wide range of national and international research projects, funded by the EU, German federal ministries and industry partners. Papers have been published in numerous renowned national and international academic journals and at conferences.
Role in THRIVE
The University of Kassel coordinates THRIVE’s fieldwork in Germany in close cooperation with fobizz, supporting the national pilot and overseeing data collection with young people aged 14 to 16 in German schools. It contributes expertise in research design and knowledge of ethics and data protection requirements for school-based research in Germany. Drawing on design science research, the team helps translate the project’s design knowledge into reusable design patterns and contributes to THRIVE’s living glossary along with BFH, which builds a shared vocabulary across disciplines.
