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Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER) is a collection of twelve European universities which focus on science and engineering. There are joint programs and student exchanges held between the universities. The focus of the network is courses and study programmes, the goal being to offer students attractive exchanges between the best institutes of technology in Europe, along with dual degree partnerships at second- and third-cycle level, joint funding applications for courses and study programmes, exchanges for benchmarking purposes and approaches to policy issues at EU level. [1]

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President of CLUSTER is Tanja Brühl, the president of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. [2]

Members

Active members

The participating universities are: [3]

UniversityCountry
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden
Politecnico di Torino Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
KU Leuven Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Grenoble Institute of Technology Flag of France.svg  France
Instituto Superior Técnico Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal
Trinity College Dublin Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
Aalto University Flag of Finland.svg  Finland
TU Darmstadt Flag of Germany.svg  Germany
Eindhoven University of Technology Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
École Polytechnique de Louvain Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Polytechnic University of Catalonia Flag of Spain.svg  Spain

Associate members

Although the number of Cluster members has remained stable over the years, the network is creating new connections with leading universities outside Europe. These associated members are: [4]

UniversityCountry
Polytechnique Montréal Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
University of São Paulo Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil

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