With around 28,000 students and almost 5,300 employees, Leibniz Universität Hannover is the largest university in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is excellently networked internationally (and nationally), with cooperation partners in the areas of teaching and research, among others. The LUH has defined internationalization in a mission statement. On the one hand, LUH creates excellent conditions for an international learning, teaching and research environment on site; on the other hand, it actively contributes to stronger international networking in these fields. The Institute for Didactics of Democracy (IDD), which is part of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University, has the following goals set itself: the goal of research and transfer activities in the fields of "political education and democracy pedagogy", "history and culture of memory" and "social challenges of civil society in the 21st century". The institute has a total of 27 employees. The core activities of the IDD include the creation of teaching/learning material, textbooks and educational media, as well as the conception and implementation of teacher training on topics of political and historical-political education. In this way, many years of expertise in training and teaching practice can be combined with sustainable innovation in subject didactics. The Institute is integrated into all relevant networks for political education and historical education. It sees itself as a mediator between scientific discourse and civil society. The institute is experienced in coordination and management as well as in the cooperation as a partner institution in various multilateral EU projects.

The Bundesarbeitskreis Arbeit und Leben is an organisation for continuing education that has been active nationwide in the field of vocational, in-company and political education since 1956. The aim of the educational and advisory services is to strengthen people’s participation in the world of work and life and to take into account the perspectives and interests of employees. The organisation particularly targets young people and adults who are considered educationally disadvantaged due to their specific living and working conditions. The head office of the Bundesarbeitskreis Arbeit und Leben currently employs 16 people. Its Political Youth Education department is particularly involved in this project. Through its work, it encourages young people to recognize and reflect on their own social position in order to be able to participate in social and political life accordingly. With the two-year thematic focus on the opportunities of digitalisation in political education, the organization is taking a look at the possibilities that digitalisation offers in political youth education. The central question is how co-determination and participation can be promoted through digital processes.

The Höhere Technische Lehranstalt (HTL) Wien West is a technical upper secondary school and concludes with a school-leaving examination and diploma. The main subjects are: Information technology, electrical engineering, electronics and mechanical engineering. The courses are offered in day and evening form. There are around 1100 day students and 600 evening students at the school, taught by around 170 teachers. As a vocational training centre for teenagers and young adults, HTL Wien West has long addressed current issues of socio-political development in its teaching. In particular, democratic processes and their significance play a central role. As a technical school, new developments in (information) technology are constantly present and influence the content and forms of teaching at the school. For example, the topics of cloud computing, current frameworks for web development, network security, and machine learning are currently receiving increased attention. The area of machine learning is currently mainly represented in the form of student projects that deal with pattern and gesture recognition.

The Democracy Centre Vienna is an interdisciplinary non-profit organisation, strongly oriented to applying and conveying knowledge. It is a research institution and a virtual knowledge centre with a broad range of multimedia content that deals with citizenship education, digital citizenship and political culture; it is concerned with processes of democratization and participation, current socio-political debates with regard to the civil society, commemorative cultures, different concepts of citizenship and migration, democratic citizenship education, the European Union, the media society as well as with technological transformation and the knowledge society. The Democracy Centre Vienna is an academic institute with an application-oriented profile, situated at the junction between the academic and public spheres.

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Institute of Technology Assessment

The Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) is Austria's central non-university institution for science and research. It has the statutory task of "promoting science in every respect". The Academy operates 25 research institutes in the field of innovative, application-orientated basic research in the humanities, cultural, social, and natural sciences. It provides impetus by taking up forward-looking research topics and assuming responsibility for the preservation and interpretation of cultural heritage. 6 The Institute for Technology Assessment employes around 25 researchers and is assigned to the ÖAW as an interdisciplinary institute . It is a member of the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EPTA) network, the Network for Technology Assessment (NTA), and the GlobalTA network. ITA accompanies and supports the project scientifically with technical expertise on digitalisation, algorithmic decision-making systems and artificial intelligence for the planning and development of the blended learning concept envisaged in the project.

The LUCA School of Arts is a multidisciplinary educational and research environment in which creative talent can develop on an artistic, performative, and technical level. At its four locations in Brussels, Genk, Ghent, and Leuven, LUCA promotes the practice of art and creative design and the development of innovative insights by over 4,500 artists, musicians, theatre and film makers, photographers and designers. As part of this project, the main activities of the project will take place at the C-mine campus in Genk, which hosts two master’s programmes in animation. The project will be linked to the Inter-Actions research unit within the research cluster “Critical Reflection of and through animation.”