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IDEA League

IDEA League
IDEA League
IDEA League
Data
Established 1999
Members 5
Region Europe
President
Dirk Jan van den Berg

The IDEA League is a strategic alliance of five of Europe's leading universities of technology. On October 6, 1999, the IDEA league was formed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between four similar European universities: Imperial College London, Delft University of Technology, ETH Zürich and RWTH Aachen University. Each had a research-oriented profile and each was the largest producer of engineering and science graduates in their own countries. In 2006, ParisTech joined the collaboration. The term IDEA comes from the first letter of each of the founding institutions.

One of the IDEA League's main ambition is to re-establish Europe as a technological and scientific leader by bundling academic resources and knowledge.

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 creating a 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.[1]

Current members

Institution Location Established Rector/President Total Number of Students** Website
Imperial College London London 1907 Sir Richard Sykes 11,490 http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/
Delft University of Technology Delft 1842 Dirk Jan van den Berg 15,885 http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=b226846d-f19f-4c34-97ed-165fecc5ad8f&lang=en
ETH Zürich Zürich 1855 Prof. Dr. Ralph Eichler 12,346 http://www.ethz.ch/
RWTH Aachen Aachen 1870 Prof. Dr. Ernst M. Schmachtenberg 32,260 http://www.rwth-aachen.de/english
ParisTech Paris 1991 IG Cyrille van Effenterre 14,000* http://www.paristech.org/
Note: *estimate, **incl. doctorandi, all numbers for 2005

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