Babson College launched the STEP Project in at the 2005 Academic Summit held at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Now with 10 partner institutions, the STEP Project Europe has held two Summits and is entering its third research cycle of qualitative cases.
The following schools make up the European STEP Partners:
- Babson College, Boston, USA
- Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
- ESADE, Barcelona, Spain
- HEC, Paris, France
- Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping, Sweden
- UCD, Dublin, Ireland
- Universita Bocconi, Milan, Italy
- University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Universitat St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Universitat Witten/ Herdecke, Witten Germany
- Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

HEC hosted the 2006 European Summit in Paris, France in September 2006. To read more about the HEC Summit please click here.
ESADE in Barcelona was the host of the 2007 European Summit in September. 35 Family members representing 14 families from throughout Europe joined academics for the 2 day event to apply research findings and learn from each other's best practices.