The Image Research Network is thankful for the contributions and support of the following organizations.

Nanyang Technological University

2026 Conference Partner

A research-intensive public university, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has 35,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Business, Computing & Data Science, Engineering, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Medicine, Science, and Graduate colleges.

Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne

2025 Conference Partner

Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University is today the major French university in human and social sciences, committed to placing humans at the heart of the scientific approach, for more human sciences as well as for a more just and sustainable society.

Interamerican Open University

2024 Conference Partner

The Inter-American Open University, founded in 1995, develops an Academic Project, which expresses the commitment to education in a path of permanent effort to respond to the social, cultural and political demands that current times require. The UAI is a private, secular, autonomous, plural and non-profit university.

San Jorge University

2023 Conference Partner

Universidad San Jorge, located in Villanueva de Gállego on the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza, was founded in 2005 and forms part of the San Valero Group, a group of education institutions led by Centro San Valero, a non-for-profit Diocesan centre with over 60 years of history working within different levels and types of secondary, further and higher education and life-long training.

University of New South Wales

2020 Conference Partner

UNSW Sydney is a powerhouse of cutting-edge research, teaching and innovation.

We are one of the top 100 universities in the world, with more than 59,000 students and a 7,000-strong research community.

Located in Sydney, Australia’s largest city, the University was established in 1949 with a unique focus on the scientific, technological and professional disciplines.

School of Digital Arts

2019 Conference Partner

The School of Digital Arts is a purpose-built, interdisciplinary school at Manchester Metropolitan University that is scheduled to open in 2021. It is a £35m investment into the workspaces, networks, teaching and research that will drive ideas and innovation across all forms of creative content.

Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

2019 Conference Partner

Based in the heart of Manchester, a vibrant and multicultural city, Manchester School if Art is an innovator of art and design education in the UK, and celebrated their 175th anniversary in 2013. As the second oldest design school in Britain, established to provide design training to the manufacturing industry, they offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses that are still very much influenced by the specialist needs of industry to provide our students with the essential skills and knowledge for their chosen career.

Hong Kong Baptist University

2018 Conference Partner

In 1956, Hong Kong Baptist College was founded by the Baptist Convention of Hong Kong as a post-secondary college committed to the provision of whole person education. In 1983, Hong Kong Baptist College became a fully-funded public tertiary institution. It gained university status in 1994 and was renamed Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU).

Today HKBU encompasses eight Faculties/Schools offering a range of undergraduate programmes, associate degree and higher diploma programmes as well as taught postgraduate programmes and research postgraduate programmes leading to the award of master and doctoral degrees. It prides itself on its dual focus on teaching and research and encourages service to society among its staff and students. Over the years, HKBU has remained committed to academic excellence and the development of the whole person, and has gained a reputation as one of Asia’s finest institutions of higher learning.

Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon

Network Partner

IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa is a high-level institution of higher education whose aim is to create, convey and disseminate knowledge, culture, arts, science and technology of a professional nature by integrating study, lecturing, research and experimental development.

Past Partners

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