The cooperation between the Silesian University in Opava and the Harz University of Applied Sciences is an example of how administrative research can be successful by cooperative studies and best-practice examples. Both partners are persuing different approaches with regard to teaching the course content and the integration and connection of professional practice. In this way, practice-orientated administrative, social-psychological and nursing science teaching and research also fulfill a "third mission" in the respective fields of practice that goes beyond their educational mandate.