IDEA League

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IDEA League
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Established1999
Members5
Region Europe
President
Stefan Bengtsson (2016-2017)

The IDEA League is an alliance among five leading European universities of technology:

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On October 6, 1999, the IDEA league was formed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between four leading European universities of technology: Imperial College London, Delft University of Technology, ETH Zürich, and RWTH Aachen University. In 2006, ParisTech joined the collaboration. As of 2014, Chalmers University of Technology is a member of the IDEA League network. In 2016, Polytechnic University of Milan joined the IDEA League.

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 (Delft University of Technology, ETH Zürich and RWTH Aachen University), then spend the fourth semester doing their thesis at one of the schools or in industry. The programme builds on the strengths and the complementary expertise in Earth Science at the three universities. It offers a combination of study and research. During the program students can specialize in either hydrocarbon exploration and management or environmental and engineering investigations, including geothermal energy exploration and management, and will also receive a solid background in the other speciality. [2]

Students of the IDEA League universities are represented by IDEALiStiC.

Members

Current Members

InstitutionLocationEstablishedJoinedRector/PresidentTotal Number of Students**Website
Delft University of Technology Flag of the Netherlands.svg Delft 18421999Tim van der Hagen19,000
ETH Zürich Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Zürich 18551999Günther Dissertori18,000
RWTH Aachen Flag of Germany.svg Aachen 18701999Ulrich Rüdiger42,000
Chalmers University of Technology Flag of Sweden.svg Gothenburg 18292014Martin Nilsson Jacobi11,000
Polytechnic University of Milan Flag of Italy.svg Milan 18632016Donatella Sciuto41,000
Note: **incl. doctoral students, all numbers for 2008

Former Members

InstitutionLocationEstablishedJoinedLeftRector/PresidentTotal Number of StudentsWebsite
Imperial College Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London 190719992012 Alice Gast 16,610 (2015)
ParisTech Flag of France.svg Paris 199120062013Jean-Philippe Vanot [3] 19,700 (2015)

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References

  1. "Imperial's withdrawal from the IDEA League". Imperial College. October 29, 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  2. http://www.idealeague.org/geophysics Archived 2016-01-17 at the Wayback Machine IDEA-League Joint Master's in Applied Geophysics
  3. "Missions | Portail ParisTech". www.paristech.fr. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 2016-10-14.