The Open University (OU) is the world leader in distance teaching and the largest university in the UK. It is also well known as the UK’s most innovative and high-impact concept in higher education.

Since its charter was granted in 1969, it has re-shaped the notion of quality distance learning, evolving to what the OU now calls Supported Open Learning in recognition of the extensive and flexible support offered to its 220,000 currently registered students through a vast human network of 7,400 Associate Lecturers throughout the UK and Europe.

Poznan University of Economics is a major academic institution in the western part of Poland. It is the biggest and oldest business university in the region of Wielkopolska with origins going back to 1926.

PUE specializes in educating economists, managers and specialists in quality management in all sectors of the economy. The main subjects of research range from various aspects of Poland’s economic transformation to the preparation of Polish enterprises for competition within the European Union and the globalization trends in the world economy.