The School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh is one of Europe’s leading centres for social science. The University of Edinburgh is one of the largest and most successful universities in the United Kingdom with an international reputation as a centre of academic excellence. The University is the leading research university in Scotland and ranks amongst the top ten in the United Kingdom.

The Department of Social Anthropology is part of the Sociology Institute of Lund University. Lund anthropology has been significantly strong in the development of global systematic anthropology. Lund University seeks to be a world-class university that works to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. The university is ranked as one of the top 100 in the world.

The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute is devoted to inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society.  The European University Institute was created in 1972 by the Member States of the founding European Communities to provide advanced academic training to PhD-students and to promote research at the highest level.

La Strada Czech Republic (LSCz) is a non-governmental organization which aims to contribute towards the elimination of all forms of exploitation and trafficking in human beings. To achieve these results, LSCz wants to make the issue of THB visible by influencing authorities, media and public opinion to address this violation of human rights and by informing the public about possible dangers of trafficking and commercial exploitation.