The University of Udine has over 15000 students, more than 600 lecturers, approximately 500 technicians and administrative staff. It is supported by eight Departments. There are a total of 80 degree courses, coordinated by the Departments, distributed in four areas: economics and law, medicine, science, humanities and education. About 15 international courses with double degree awarding involve European countries and North and South American states. There are around 20 Schools of Specialisation and more than 10 PhD courses.

C-NET project is coordinated by prof. Sara Colussi, member of the Group of Catalysis for Energy and Environment at the Polytechnic Department of the University of Udine.

Role of the University of Udine in C-NET is to design and develop novel efficient and stable non-CRMs as DFMs and electro-catalysts for CO₂ conversion by mechanochemical synthesis, exploiting the potentialities of this method for the preparation of highly dispersed metal-based materials with unique characteristics.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is an international oriented university with headquarters in Trondheim Norway. NTNU has a main profile in science and technology, a variety of programmes of professional study, and great academic breadth also including the humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine, health sciences, educational science, architecture, entrepreneurship, art disciplines and artistic activities. The university's root goes back to 1760 with the foundation of Trondheim Academy. NTNU is Norway's largest university with more than 40 000 students and almost 9000 employees. NTNU participates in more than 600 European collaboration projects, and has a long tradition of hosting international exchange researchers (https://www.ntnu.edu/).

The role of NTNU in C-NET is to improve CO₂ valorisation processes by catalyst design, advanced catalyst characterisation and kinetic evaluation. The Catalysis Group at the Department of Chemical Engineering (https://www.ntnu.edu/chemeng/research/catalysis#/view/about) organises research and teaching in catalysis, reaction kinetics, petrochemistry and related subjects. It is the largest catalysis group in Norway and the main arena for education of PhD and MSc candidates for Norwegian industry and research institutes. The research areas of the Catalysis Group include Industrial Catalysis, Biofuels, Environmental Catalysis, Fundamental Studies in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Microstructured Reactors and Membrane Reactors, Production and Application of Carbon Nanomaterials, Gas Cleaning, Photocatalysis, Production and application of Hydrogen and Ammonia, Natural Gas Conversion, Materials Development, etc.

Founded in 1505 the University of Seville (USE) is the third largest university in Spain with over 70000 students and more than 4000 academic staff. USE offers 111 master programs and 32 doctoral programs and it is committed to international research with over 100 European ongoing projects. Research is carried out in 134 academic departments, in 8 joint research centres USE - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and 10 university research institutes. USE embraces academia, industry, engineering and science and provides an intellectual reference in the South of Europe, with a powerful educational and technological infrastructure.

USE participates in C-NET through Surface Science & Catalysis laboratory (SURFCAT) being Prof. Tomas R. Reina the main contact for the project. SURFCAT possess over 40 years of experience in catalysis for energy and environmental applications and their labs at the Materials Science Institute are fully equipped with automatised catalytic rigs, microchannel reactor manufacturing devices, operando spectroscopy and state of the art characterisation infrastructure. All these facilities are available to deliver C-NET activities. USE´s lead the project activities related to training and knowledge exchange on structured catalysts and microchannel reactors manufacturing.