On the occasion of 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, the Educational and Social Studies Institute decided to create the European Center for Cultural Cooperation, a platform of research, meeting and dialogue on the relationship between different cultures in a globalised world from a humanist concept of society and history. The Center includes a group of interdisciplinary experts made up of lecturers and professors from various fields.

At the heart of the Center´s proposals lies to inspire models of social and political organisation based on people´s dignity, respect for human rights
as a universal goal, the search for peaceful coexistence among peoples and nations and the inspiration to spread individual and collective freedom under conditions of equality.

The Platform for Intercultural Europe is a civil society initiative developed as a response to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue in 2008. Its vision is of an equitable European community that values its diverse people, seeks positive dialogue with others and enables each person to make their distinctive contribution to a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world.
The Platform is a democratic association whose membership is open to any organisation or individuals that support its vision and constitution. Society and Education is member of the Platform from june 2009.

The European Foundation Centre (EFC) promotes and supports networking and collaboration among foundations and corporate donors and build alliances with philantropy support organisations in Europe and beyond. Society and Education is member of its Diversity, Migration and Integration Interest Group (DMIIG) which gathers foundations to promote best practice by fostering networking, exchanging and collecting information on promising practices, enhancing knowledge and building intelligence on the sector and communicating and coordinating foundations interested.

The Education Law Association (ELA) is a nonprofit association offering unbiased information about current legal issues affecting education and the rights of those involved in education in both public and private schools, universities and colleges. Its members represent three distinct contingency groups: Attorneys, Professors and School Administrators.
ELA is the premier forum for professionals interested in practical knowledge, scolarship and interdisciplinary dialogue about legal and policy issues affecting education. Its Founder-President Professor Jan de Groof has been recently appointed UNESCO´s chargé de mission for the right to education.

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The Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning based on indicators and benchmarks (CRELL) was established in order to gather expertise in the field of indicator-based evaluation and monitoring of education and training systems. CRELL combines fields of economics, econometrics, education, social sciences and statistics in an interdisciplinary approach to research.

CRELL became operational in August 2005 and is sponsored by the European Commission's Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC) and co-ordinated by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (DG JRC).