EcoPorts Foundation is connected to 5 European Universities. The Universities provide scientific support to various EPF projects, and EPF involves as many researchers as possible in its activites.

EPF's objective is to be connected with at least 1 major University from every European country.

The Universities currently connected to EPF are:

• Cardiff University of Wales (UK)
• University of Amsterdam (NL)
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
• World Maritime University (Sweden)
• Gdansk University of Technology (Poland)