The participation in the Forum was confirmed by the representatives of the following universities (in the alphabetic order):

• Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
• City University London
• Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
• Institute of Petroleum Engineering
• Lappeenranta University of Technology
• Liaoning Normal University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Nancy University
• New University of Lisbon
• Newcastle University
• Technical University of Munich
• University of Joseph Fourier
• University of Oxford
• University of Southampton
• University Paris-Sud 11