The University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy (UACEG) was recognized as a university in 1995. UACEG is successor of Higher Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, which existed as a separate Higher Education Institution under different names from 1953 till 1995. Prior to 1953 UACEG was a Faculty in the Higher Technical School, established in 1942. UACEG is the leading Higher Education Institution (HEI) in Bulgaria in all fields of its activity – Architecture, Structural, Transportation and Hydraulic Engineering and Geodesy. It is also the only HEI which graduates students in Bulgaria in specialties “Irrigation and Drainage Engineering”, “Hydraulic Engineering”, “Urban Planning” and “Land and Real Estate Management and Planning”. UACEG is a medium-sized, specialized university for Bulgarian  standards. It comprises of five faculties: Faculty of Architecture, Faculty of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Faculty of Geodesy. In the last 3 years the total average number of students is around 4000, which are enrolled in different Bachelor, Master and PhD study programmes. The total staff of UACEG is about 540 people, including administrative, supporting and seasonal staff. The academic staff include 318 teachers, out of which 44 professors and 104 associate professors. The academic staff of UACEG is recognized as leading capacity in Bulgaria in all fields of its activities, especially in the fields of Water Supply, Sanitation, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Hydraulic Engineering and Water Management. The staff of UACEG took part in different EU projects, funded by TEMPUS, Erasmus, FP7, RFCS and Horizon 2020. It also contributed to several projects of the World Bank, including preparation of Draft Strategies for development of the Water Supply and Sanitation, and for Hydro-melioration and Protection Against Harmful Effects of Water (2015).

The Faculty of Civil Engineering as part of the University of Rijeka (UNIRIFCE) has around 75 employees, of which only the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering counts 11 experts employed and 4 of them will be working on this Project (two professors and two postdoctorate fellows that are involved in teaching). The Faculty was established in 1976. The whole University of Rijeka counts around 1.500 employees (1.000 teachers and 500 non-teaching staff) and 16.700 students, and consists of 11 faculties and 4 university departments, university library and student centre. UNIRIFCE Rijeka has a new building (from 2011) situated within the University Campus with up-to-date equipped classrooms, laboratories and offices for students and Faculty staff. The Hydraulic laboratory has recently been fully equipped with the financial support from EU founds within the project: Research Infrastructure Development at the University Campus of Rijeka (European fund for regional development). Faculty experts have wide experience in water management and hydraulic engineering research and teaching, and have participated in numerous international and national projects in this area of expertise, but also in projects that are related to the improvement of curricula and the quality of  study in order to prepare better students for the work market or for continuing their education on doctoral studies and scientific work. At UNIRIFCE all three levels of studies (BSc, MSc and PhD), both university and vocational, are offered and around 700 students are currently enrolled. On graduate university study level (MSc) students are offered the possibility to enroll and develop their knowledge and competences in the branch of Hydrotechnical engineering and Urban engineering, both branches include water management courses. All Faculty study programmes have been reformed in 2005 according to Bologna declaration principles (introduction of: 3 cycles of study, diploma supplement, ECTS, learning outcomes, QA, etc.).