The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), established in 1989, has about 9,000 full-time, face-to-face students who are mainly recent secondary school graduates and about 8,000 part-time, distance students of whom the majority are working adults.

Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in The Netherlands is a partnership between Wageningen University and Wageningen Research Foundation, which consists of 10 specialized research institutes. It serves 11,500 students in branches all over The Netherlands and abroad, with most lecturers, researchers and other employees based at Wageningen Campus.