The Institute of Technology and Education (ITB) is a central research unit at Bremen University. The ITB specializes its research on vocational education and training in the broadest sense. The underlying central idea of ITB's vocational training research is the analysis, design and evaluation of the interaction between work, technology and education. The research programme is firmly established in five fields: (1) work and technology, (2) occupational competence research, (3) vocational learning and teaching, (4) pre-vocational education and transitions and (5) competence-oriented vocational training systems.

ITB’s research is based on multidisciplinarity and internationality. The institute conducts a wide set of research and development projects on regional, national and international level. Projects usually are run in co-operation with industry and VET bodies. 

During the last years ITB has coordinated or participated in numerous projects, of which the following are more closely related to the O4YEL project: IMPLEMENT, a project on developing and implementing a mentoring system for apprentices; MIDIA,  a project on differences in company-based training preparation in societies with increased migrant population; DIVERSITY, a project on education and training for pedagogues to better deal with diversity in vocational schools and companies. 

Polytechnic of Leiria (IPLeiria) is a public institution of higher education, dedicated to the production and diffusion of knowledge, creation, transmission and diffusion of culture, science, technology and arts, applied research and experimental development. IPLeiria develops its activities in the aim of education and training, research, provision of services to the community and extending cooperation in educational, cultural and technical areas.

IPLeiria has a dynamic and robust ecosystem of Research and Innovation (R&D+i) strongly orientated to the economy and society. This R&D+i ecosystem is composed by one Knowledge Transfer Centre, more than 130 laboratories, fifteen Research Units, two of which dedicated to education and inclusion: Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (www.cics.nova.fcsh.unl.pt/polos/cics-nova-ipleiria) that promote scientific research in the area of identity reconstruction from a personal, professional, social and cultural perspective and includes the Observatory of Inclusion and Accessibility in Action (https://iact.ipleiria.pt); Center for Studies in Education and Innovation (www.ipv.pt/cidei) that develop research in education sciences, produce and increase knowledge of education current reality, dvelop interventional strategies to improve education and training quality and implement cooperation tactics with the community.

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences is part of the University of Bucharest (https://unibuc.ro/?lang=en), the leading public university in Romania. The Faculty offers studies in the full 3 cycle Bologna structure in 5 departments: Psychology, Educational Sciences, Special Needs Education, Teacher training - initial training for kindergarten and primary school teachers and initial training for future teachers and continuous training for teachers in the secondary education. As the institutional practice and behaviour is oriented towards assimilation of new ways of delivering better education and training to the students, as future professionals in their work, it is of utmost importance to  deliver a conceptual framework to guide future professionals in the field of education and teacher training (https://fpse.unibuc.ro/).

El proyecto O4YEL es liderado por el Equipo de Desarrollo Organizacional [EDO] (http://edo.uab.es) del Departamento de Pedagogía Aplicada de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (https://www.uab.cat/).  EDO está especializado en el análisis de las organizaciones formativas, los procesos de cambio y el diseño de estrategias para la mejora organizativa. En los últimos años, ha coordinado numerosos proyectos (http://edo.uab.cat/es/content/projectes) vinculados al análisis de las situaciones de vulnerabilidad en el contexto de la educación secundaria y la universidad, entre los que destaca el desarrollo del proyecto MISEAL (http://www.miseal.net/) y la coordinación y dirección de los proyectos IDEAS (http://projectes.uab.cat/ideas/), Access4All (https://access4allproject.eu/), ACCEDES (http://edo.uab.cat/accedes) y ORACLE (https://observatorio-oracle.org/).

Work package two is led by researchers in the Department of Education, University of Bath [UoB]. The Department of Education is a centre of excellence for research into international education and has developed a critical mass of researchers in this and related fields over the last three decades. The department undertakes distinctive research which aims to interrogate educational inequalities in a globalised world and has developed research strengths in Education and the Labour Market; Student Motilities; Higher Education; Applied Linguistics; and Educational Policy (including language policies). These areas have coalesced into four research clusters Educational Leadership, Management and Governance (ELMG); Internationalisation and Globalisation of Education (IGE); Language and Educational Practices (LEP); and Learning, Pedagogy and Diversity (LPD) .