EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is one of most innovative and productive technology institutes in the world, with more than 250 laboratories and research groups on campus bringing together more than 10,000 people. With 107 nationalities represented and more than 50% of professors coming from abroad, EPFL is also one of the world's most cosmopolitan universities. The unique structure of the university facilitates transdisciplinary research (both fundamental and applied) and encourages partnerships with enterprises and surrounding start-up community. NRC is collaborating with multiple EPFL Schools; like Computer Science & Communications (I&C), Electrical and Electronics Engineering (STI) and Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). (www.epfl.ch)

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ETHZ (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich) is among the top universities in the world with an outstanding research record in the fields of chemistry, mathematics and physics. Home to 18,000 people from 80 nations around the world, nearly 370 professors in 16 departments at ETH Zurich teach and carry out highly valued research in the areas of engineering sciences and architecture, system-oriented sciences, mathematics and natural sciences. It has produced and attracted many famous scientists since its establishment in 1855, with more than twenty Nobel laureates connected to ETHZ. Nokia Research Center collaborates with the departments of Computer Science and Information Technology and Electrical Engineering. (www.ethz.ch)

Helsinki University of Technology (Finnish: TKK Teknillinen korkeakoulu) is the oldest university of technology in Finland and a pioneer in the field of technology in the country. TKK is located in the Otaniemi area, an active business zone where many significant research centers are situated. TKK is involved in nine national Centers of Excellence in Research and known, among other things, for its Low Temperature Lab that set the world record for the lowest temperature. TKK's mobile communications research and teaching is considered to be among the best in the world. At present, preparations are being made to combine TKK, Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), and University of Art and Design Helsinki (TaiK) into a new Aalto University that will open by 2010. This collaboration will diversify the range of courses offered at TKK, strengthen the research conducted in the scientific community, and intensify its close cooperation with Finnish businesses.

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Consistently ranked as one of the top engineering schools in the world, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will soon be entering its 150th year in 2011. MIT focuses on teaching and research with relevance to the practical world as a primary purpose, as demonstrated by seventy-three present and former members of the MIT community having won the Nobel Prize. Nokia is working with CSAIL (the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) as well as the Media Lab . The CSAIL effort currently includes research in spoken language, location sensing, and interfaces that provide users better access to information. This program is an example of Open Innovation, enabling both Nokia and MIT to multiply their own research and development through close collaboration.

Located in Palo Alto in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions. Founded in 1891, Stanford is noted for multidisciplinary research within its schools and departments, as well as its independent laboratories, centers and institutes. Its alumni have gone on to found companies such Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, Yahoo!, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics and Google. Nokia is collaborating with Stanford by donating resources to several university labs and collaborating on a variety of projects, including Mobile Augmented Reality and an open platform for imaging and computational photography called Camera 2.0.

Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finnish: TTY Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto) is Finland's second largest university in engineering sciences. Established in 1965, the University has grown to become a significant influence on technology in Finland and abroad. TUT plays a pivotal role as an advocate of business life, internationalization and well-being in the Tampere region and western Finland as a whole. Leading-edge fields of research at TUT are signal processing based technologies, nanophotonics, biotechnology, and intelligent mobile machines and hydraulic systems. The university has one Finnish Center of Excellence, the Signal Processing Laboratory and participates in two other Finnish Centers of Excellence.

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As one of China’s most renowned universities, Tsinghua has become an important institution for fostering talent and scientific research with a 98 year history of excellence. Among over 120,000 students who have graduated from Tsinghua since its founding are many outstanding scholars, eminent entrepreneurs and great statesmen. In May 2007, Nokia Research Center and Tsinghua University announced the establishment of a research framework and a facility dedicated to long term joint research programs. The agreement is the first of its kind in Asia for Nokia Research Center. Tsinghua's professors and students collaborate with Nokia researchers on a wide range of topics; some global, others focused specifically on Asia. Departments collaborating with NRC: EE, CS, IE, Department of Sociology, Industrial Design, Department of Precision Instruments and Mechanology.

University of California, Berkeley is the world premier public research university located in Berkeley, California. Charted in 1868, it's the oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California with a distinguished faculty (20 Nobel laureates to date), a stellar research library, and more than 350 academic programs. Berkeley has a rich history of innovation, scientific discovery and social activism such as the discovery of Vitamin E, the development of the influenza-virus vaccine and the advent of open source software. Nokia has joined with Berkeley and U.S. Department of Transportation on the Mobile Millennium Project, an unprecedented traffic monitoring system capable of fusing GPS data from mobile phones with data from existing traffic sensors. Nokia has also donated funds to Berkeley's School of Information.

The University of Cambridge is about to celebrate its 800th birthday and is currently the single university with the highest number of Noble Prizes in the world - more than 80. The University's research throughput and degree of excellence has created a large and vibrant high-tech entrepreneurship clusters and one of Europe's main Open Innovation hubs, with hundreds of start-ups and several large corporate research labs located in and around the town of Cambridge. NRC and the University of Cambridge have several collaborative research projects in the field of flexible and stretchable nanomaterials, multifunctional surfaces, nano-sensing and computing, energy harvesting and storage. NRC is collaborating with the Nanoscience Centre, the Cavendish Laboratory, the Centre for Advance Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) at the Department of Engineering.

The University of Southern California is one of the world's leading private research universities. The USC School of Cinematic Arts, the first such program at any US university, has graduated many notable producers, directors, and writers. It received a large endowment from George Lucas and features the Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts, the country's only fully digital training center. Consistently ranked in the top 10 of engineering schools, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering received the largest naming gift ever to an engineering school. Nokia is working with both schools to develop novel mobile interactive experiences and new methods for tracking on mobile platforms for Augmented Reality applications.