The University of Coimbra (UC) is a Portuguese public and autonomous higher education institution created in 1290. It embraces ten research and education units: Faculties of Law, Medicine, Arts and Humanities, Pharmacy, Economy, Sciences and Technology, Psychology and Education Sciences, Sport Sciences and Physical Education.

The University of Coimbra is part of an UNESCO World Heritage place “University of Coimbra, Alta and Sofia”, since 2013. Internationalization and interdisciplinarity has been one of the University of Coimbra’s main concerns with special effect in Education and Training. Regarding Education, the University manages 36 undergraduate degrees, 123 master degrees and 72 doctorates. It is worth highlighting the collaboration within MIT and UT Austin, as well as Research and Training activities undertaken by the Centers and Laboratories - over 39 units.

EU-CIEMBLY project is developed under University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research. UCILeR is the only research unit at the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. Fully aware of its tradition, contributing to the production and dissemination of legal knowledge in the last few centuries, UCILeR purpose is to steer its research to contemporary expectations and quality standards. UCILeR is proud of its past, and driven to meet the highest standards of excellence in its present and future activity. Grounded in this tradition, but with a forward-looking research focus, UCILeR main goal is to contribute to answer societal challenges related to Law research, enabling a critical-reflexive perspective of the possibilities and limits of the answer or answers of law to those challenges.