The University of Paris was founded in the early 13th century and has since been a center of academic excellence. As a successor to the Faculty of Law and Economics of the Sorbonne, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne combines a rich intellectual tradition with a focus on contemporary global challenges.

With around 45,000 students, the university is one of France’s largest, spanning 14 teaching and research departments and five institutes. It offers programs in economics, law, management, political science, and the humanities, fostering interdisciplinary approaches. The CDM project is attached to the Sorbonne School of Economics, reflecting its commitment to innovative and socially engaged research and training.

Sorbonne School of Economics

Co-founded by two project managers with more than 15 years of experience in social innovation projects, Project School is a startup company based in Italy aimed to strengthen the creative and design skills of individuals and organizations willing to develop sustainable solutions to small and big challenges of their communities.

Using the most innovative design techniques in the social field, Project School intends to create a generation of professionals capable of designing ambitious and sustainable initiatives, able to solve some of the most difficult challenges of our society: education, work, environment, migration, etc.

Project School delivers two practical Laboratories that are strictly linked to its target groups, namely:

Social Impact Project Lab

Designed for individuals and organizations willing to play an active role in their communities by supporting and funding social impact initiatives and projects.

Project Design Training

Project School provides training on specific aspects of social impact project design (such as defining the project scope, framing the social impact, finding partners, investigating the sustainability of the project). PS delivers training for different audiences, with different ages, backgrounds, and aptitudes, ranging from universities to foundations to any organization wishing to offer specialized training to its stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Furthermore, Project School designs, creates, and concretely develops social impact projects funded by the European Commission and other donors.

Since the launch of Project School (January 2020) to date, it has been awarded more than 15 EU projects on

various topics: youth activation, sustainable development, climate change, women’s leadership, and integration of migrants. Our reference programmes are: Erasmus+, AMIF, CERV, LIFE, Creative Europe.

AnciLab is the company of ANCI Lombardia (National Association of Italian Municipalities of the Lombardy Region). AnciLab is a VET provider. The company’s mission is to provide technical assistance and capacity building to the Public Administration providing tailor –made trainings and mentoring in the field of innovation, green, digital and just transition. AnciLab’s contribution aims at boosting the governance process and the executive capacities of the local authorities to better understand, integrate and address the challenges of innovation and leadership in disruptive time. Capacity building programmes are provided to improve the management skills of civil servants, elected officials and legislators to boost their competences and organization’s effectiveness, efficiency and responsiveness towards their stakeholders.
Benefit, ESG & Accountability Lab: AnciLab, has integrated the goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda into its activities, stressing the importance of an integrated and sustainable approach to corporate development. AnciLab’s transition to a benefit company has been characterized by a journey of growth and adaptation, culminating in 2022 with the willing of exploring this new corporate identity.

die Berater® based in Austria is a leading training and human resource development consultancy company. die Berater® offers holistic consulting, coaches employees and managers, and is specialized in soft skills, language and IT seminars. The portfolio is targeted at individuals, companies of all sizes and industries, as well as the public sector, e.g. the Austrian Employment Service (AMS), ministries, the European Commission, and other stakeholders of the education system.