The Universidade de Aveiro is a middle-sized university centred on the town of Aveiro, middle of Portugal. The University is quite well-known, with several of its research branches to reach the prestigious Excellent ranking from the official evaluation process in Portugal.

The University is now launching its specific Living Labs-alike project, bringing the whole campus into a integrated field for novel technologies, expanding the existing localized demonstrators (such as the Home of the Future, or the Salina network).

Street public lighting and the settings in light of Bordeaux represent 30,500 luminous points distributed on 500 kilometres of ways and 70 illuminations. The Settings in Light Department, directed by Ghislain Luneau, is in charge of the management of the maintenance of the city lighting, of the studies, of the administrative, accounting and technique follow-up of works of street public lighting, of the settings in light of the sporting installations, and Christmas lights on the public domain.

Thorn Lighting part of the Zumtobel group, is a globally trusted supplier of both outdoor and indoor luminaires and integrated controls.

Politecnico di Torino offers excellence in technology and acknowledges its historical context. It promotes the ability to carry out theoretical or applied research, and also the capacity to achieve concrete and reliable productive processes or organise services and facilities. Politecnico has almost 25,000 students studying on 108 courses (forty 3-year degree courses; about thirty 5-year degrees; thirty-one degrees at post-graduate level - doctorates and other post-graduate specialisations). There are 7 Schools, 18 Departments and 7 Interdepartmental Centres.