/ Partners

To support and develop the CA²RE conferences with the  CA²RE+ meta-level discourse and Erasmus+ strategic encouragement, the partnership gathers the most active  members of the CA²RE community.

The CA²RE+ Strategic Partnership of 11 outstanding HE organisations and associations from 8 EU countries is running for 3 years. Its backbone is a series of biannual international and intercultural INTENSIVE STUDY PROGRAMMES for doctoral candidates, guided by experienced evaluators from participating universities and invited experts. The doctoral work-in-progress is evaluated through presentations, performances, exhibitions and critical discussions, following the iterative CA²RE+ development steps: observation, sharing, comparison, reflection, reformulation and recommendation. To introduce new experts with low evaluation experience into the process, JOINT STAFF TRAINING is developed at each venue.

Partners – Beneficiaries

• the University of Ljubljana (LJUBLJANA), coordinator 
• the Aarhus School of Architecture (AARHUS), 
• the KU Leuven (GHENT), 
• the Politecnico di Milano (MILANO), 
• the TU Berlin (BERLIN), 
• the COFAC – Lusofona University (PORTO), 
• the Hafencity University Hamburg (HAMBURG) 
• the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (TRONDHEIM), 
• the TU Delft (DELFT), 
• the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and 
• the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA).

Key Persons from Partners – Beneficiaries

• LJUBLJANA: Tadeja Zupančič, Paul Robinson, Matevž Juvančič; 
• AARHUS: Claus Peder Pedersen, Anders Kruse Aagaard; 
• GHENT: Jo van den Berghe, Thierry Lagrange; 
• MILANO: Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Fabrizia Berlingieri, Gennaro Postiglione; 
• BERLIN: Jürgen Weidinger, Ignacio Borrego, Ralf Pasel; 
• PORTO: Edite Rosa, Manuel Bogalheiro; 
• HAMBURG: Matthias Ballestrem, Christoph Heinemann; 
• TRONDHEIM: Markus Schwai, Eli Støa; 
• DELFT: Roberto Cavallo, Alper Alkan; 
• EAAE: Oya Atalay Franck, João Pedro Xavier,  Débora Domingo Calabuig; 
• ELIA: Maria Hansen, Janja Ferenc, Chesley Ryder.

Associated Partners

• The ARENA – Architectural Research European Network Association (individual experts); 
• The members of the CA²RE community.

All the institutions involved in the CA²RE community and are not full partners of the CA²RE+ project are respected as associated partners. The CA²RE membership grows as the continuous backbone of the CA²RE+ project. The CA²RE+ partnership feeds the meta-level of the CA²RE endeavours and triggers the CA²RE community development.

Roles of Associated Partners

• Project monitoring, Scientific Committee membership, peer reviewers of intellectual outputs; 
• Invited teachers at Intensive Study Programme (ISP) activities, contributing to intellectual outputs; 
• Self-funded respondents to open calls (selection of the best doctoral candidates and new evaluators from the CA2RE community as additional participants at the CA2RE+ learning teaching training activities); 
• Participants at Multiplier Events (ME-s); 
• Members of the SUSTAINABILITY BOARD.