In the first stage at least one news per month is intended to be placed at this special homepage for ?Vital Cities?. This content-management should be operatively organised by international trainees who spend their time at the headquarters of the European Retail Academy. By doing the content-management those students will be confronted by the topics of Vital Cities as well as by internet-technology. In the second stage it is considered to promote students which already are specialised on topics around Vital Cities by incentives for an international exchange program. To finance those students will be build up a special partnership. Those partners will be enrolled into the mission?s partner-list.
The first partners are:

• Studio Metropolitana Urban Research Centre which was founded in 1995 as a non-profit research institute of the Municipality of Budapest.

• The Department of Tourism of the University of South Bohemia created in 1998 a 5 year M.A. study programme first in Tabor near the main-location in Budweis and in 2006 transferred to the main campus.

• The European Retail Academy (ERA) was founded in 2005 and is a non-profit academic network of retail-chairs all around the world.

• Austrian Institute for SME Research was founded in 1952 and prepares as an independent, private non-profit association data and information especially for small and medium sized companies

• The Institute for Town-Planing and Construction was founded in 1995 at the University of Leipzig. It is among others developing a Master-course for Urban Management.



• EHI Retail Institute rooting back to 1951 established in 2009 Handelsimmobilien + Expansion by EHI.