IDEA League
IDEA League | |
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Logo | |
Established | 1999 |
Members | 5 |
Region | Europe |
President |
Stefan Bengtsson (2016-2017) |
The IDEA League is an alliance among five leading
- Chalmers University of Technology
- Delft University of Technology
- ETH Zürich
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- RWTH Aachen University
On October 6, 1999, the IDEA league was formed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between four leading European universities of technology:
Each member has a respectable research-oriented profile and is the largest producer of engineering and science graduates in its own country. One of the IDEA League's main ambitions is to re-establish Europe as a technological and scientific leader by bundling academic resources and knowledge. The term IDEA comes from the first letter of each of the founding institutions.
Imperial College London confirmed its decision to withdraw from the IDEA League with effect from December 2012.[1] At the end of 2013, Paris Tech left the IDEA League because the university was restructuring in connection with the newly created Paris-Saclay campus.
Currently, three schools of the members of the alliance offer a Joint Masters in Applied Geophysics, where students spend one semester at each university (
Students of the IDEA League universities are represented by IDEALiStiC.
Members
Current Members
Institution | Location | Established | Joined | Rector/President | Total Number of Students** | Website |
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Delft University of Technology | Delft | 1842 | 1999 | Tim van der Hagen | 19,000 | [1] |
ETH Zürich
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Zürich | 1855 | 1999 | Günther Dissertori | 18,000 | [2] |
RWTH Aachen
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Aachen | 1870 | 1999 | Ulrich Rüdiger | 42,000 | [3] |
Chalmers University of Technology | Gothenburg | 1829 | 2014 | Stefan Bengtsson | 11,000 | [4] |
Polytechnic University of Milan | Milan | 1863 | 2016 | Donatella Sciuto | 41,000 | [5] |
- Note: **incl. doctoral students, all numbers for 2008
Former Members
Institution | Location | Established | Joined | Left | Rector/President | Total Number of Students | Website |
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Imperial College
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London | 1907 | 1999 | 2012 | Alice Gast | 16,610 (2015) | [6] |
ParisTech | Paris | 1991 | 2006 | 2013 | Jean-Philippe Vanot[3] | 19,700 (2015) | [7] |
See also
- ASPIRE League – Asian Science and Technology Pioneering Institutes of Research and Education
References
- ^ "Imperial's withdrawal from the IDEA League". Imperial College. October 29, 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ http://www.idealeague.org/geophysics Archived 2016-01-17 at the Wayback Machine IDEA-League Joint Master's in Applied Geophysics
- ^ "Missions | Portail ParisTech". www.paristech.fr. Retrieved 2016-10-14.