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Royal College of Art / RapidformRCA (UK) 
Based in London, claims to be the world's largest academic digital manufacturing facility.
Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) Researching selective laser sintering (SLS) and stereolithography processes, especially the use of SLS tooling for gravity die casting of prototypes and short production runs.
Samara State Technical University (Russia) Conducts investigations in Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) in association with Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Samara branch. The work especially concentrates on the physical and chemical conditions of the SLS process itself. Also researching new approaches to powder materials for the SLS process.
Technical University of Delft Working on Free Form Thick Layered Object Manufacturing (FF-TLOM) to make large objects out of polystyrene sheet material, cut with a hot blade. Similar to work at the University of Utah. The link is to a paper on the subject in .pdf format.
Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany) Researching micro-stereolithography processes. (In German.)
Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Robot Fusion Welding.
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) 
Portuguese Rapid Prototyping Network: A merger of competencies providing RP Services for Industry. Models produced using: LOM, DMLS, SLS-Plastic, SLS-Metals, and Stereolithography. (in Portuguese)
Universität Passau (Germany) FORWISS project for the development of micro-stereolithography.
[IKP at] Universitat Stuttgart (Germany) Development of materials and processing for stereolithography, and rapid tooling with SLS.
University College London (UK) University/Hospital collaboration. Medical applications of RP, Titanium implants, CT to STL conversion using FDM and CNC processes.
[FHS] University of Applied Science St. Gallen (Switzerland) 
Selective Laser Melting (SLM) The Institute for Rapid Product Development within the University has research interests which include materials, process chains, new applications, reverse engineering, product design and simulations. The Institute also offers services to industry in all SLS materials and printed high definition Objet parts. Additional services include RTV and Casting, reverse engineering, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing.
University of Bath (UK) RepRap Stands for replicating rapid-prototyper. It's an open-source 3D printer design project headed by Adrian Bowyer. RepRap is intended to make plastic, ceramic, and metal parts, and eventually to have the ability to make copies of itself. The technology is based on multi-axis robotic deposition of filamentary material, similar to fused deposition modeling. The parts cost is said to be on the order of US$400.
University of Birmingham (UK) Research on improvement of selective laser sintering of sand molds and cores for metal casting, and on direct laser fabrication of fully-dense metal and intermetallic components.
Univiversity of Cambridge (UK) The Institute for Manufacturing is one of several academic organizations developing Incremental Sheet Forming (ISF), a process for forming sheet metal under the action of an indenter. Nearly any hollow 3D shape can be made without tooling to enable the fabrication custom sheet metal parts.
University of Derby (UK) Offers courses in rapid prototyping technology and rapid manufacturing.
University of Greenwich [The university offers RP services at its Medway Campus.] / UK
University of Leeds (UK) The numerical simulation of the SLS process is being investigated, as well new materials for the process and medical applications.
University of Liverpool (UK) University / Industry collaboration. Areas of expertise include: high speed machining, micro laser cutting, selective laser sintering, etc. Also has an extensive development program, including the Laser Direct Casting process, which is similar to LENS ® (Reg. trademark of Sandia National Labs. and Sandia Corp.) technology. A program to develop Cold Gas Dynamic Manufacturing has received major funding. It uses a supersonic gas jet to smack unheated particles against a substrate where they bond because of the intense energy of impact. Additional information and news about these and other RP technologies can be found on the University's Research into Advanced Technology (RAT) web site.
