About Us

Goal: Opening up research infrastructures for other EuroTech Universities

We aim to bring our research and innovation strengths closer together, for the benefit of all six EuroTech Universities. To achieve that, we start with the research infrastructures available at the different universities. Our goal is to grant access to these facilities to fellow researchers of other EuroTech Universities. In order to do so, we map existing infrastructures – and also explore possibilities to jointly develop new ones – , develop guidelines for granting access, and share best practices, for instance by organising mutual visits and training personnel.

• Lead: Eindhoven University of Technology
• Co-lead: École Polytechnique, Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Goal: Growing our inter-university virtual campus – an open space for lifelong learning

This initiative builds mainly on the EuroTeQ Engineering University, our “European University” funded under the European Commission’s Erasmus+ scheme. To best educate future engineers, we open our learning environments. Novel teaching formats, physical and virtual student mobility, and lifelong learning offers are core parts of this endeavour. Offers such as a joint course catalogue, intercultural workshops and student challenges are available to our more than 115,000 students. The EuroTeQ project is also developing stand-alone short-term learning formats, known as “micro-credentials”, for students, vocational trainees, and professionals.

See also our EuroTech education activities, which include joint Master’s and double degree programmes, summer/winter schools and much more.

• Lead: Technical University of Munich

Goal: From KPIs across universities to living labs

This initiative embraces the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. Cooperation in campus development is rather new at EuroTech – it is however a natural fit to our other activities. Our aim in this initiative is to learn from each other’s experience. We develop common KPIs across universities related to (1) reduction of emissions of work-related transport; (2) more sustainable catering; and (3) higher degree of diversity. In the mid-term, we aim at transforming our universities into living labs, demonstrating our sustainable campus operations for instance in research/student projects, drawing on applied operations data, and testing innovative technologies. 

• Lead: Technical University of Denmark, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Goal: Advocating for topics we consider crucial at the European level

While the majority of EuroTech’s activities is focused on internal collaboration, which is the core of the Alliance, we see the need to advocate at the European level for topics that are particularly close to our hearts. We are convinced that this united voice of six strong universities of science and technology can make a valuable contribution to EU policymaking.

• Lead: EuroTech Brussels Office

Goal: Giving an extra boost to EuroTech initiatives

This initiative is a cross-cutting initiative and supports the other four in promoting their activities and results. Overall, we aim at increasing the visibility of EuroTech and its manifold benefits and opportunities for involvement, both internally at the six universities and externally with relevant stakeholders.  

• Lead: EuroTech Brussels Office