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What is the IDEA League?
The IDEA League is a network of five leading universities of technology and science, representing for each partner its most important university collaboration at the European level. The collaborations within the IDEA League are based on the concept of added value by pooling the resources of our outstanding research and education programs for the creation of unique, integrated partnerships. Furthermore, the evaluation of the processes involved in this collaboration and the dissemination of the results are ensuring constant further development of the IDEA League while also serving as a model of a European cooperation.
The IDEA League was founded in 1999 and consists of the following universities:
- Imperial College London
- TU Delft (Technische Universiteit Delft)
- ETH Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)
- RWTH Aachen (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen)
- ParisTech (Grandes Ecoles d'Ingenieurs de Paris)
In the first cycle of the renewed Lisbon Strategy, the development of the European Research Area (ERA) and the EHEA (European Higher Education Area) constitute a fundamental cornerstone for a European knowledge society. In a world of accelerating globalisation of research and technology the IDEA League aims to actively contribute to the agenda setting in Europe, as well as to participate in the programmes and actions of the EU, most notably the framework programmes, the platforms and the European Institute of Technology (EIT). This is the framework in which the IDEA League anchors its strategy in research, education and innovation. Established as a highly selective university network based on excellence, the IDEA League sees as its task to pave the way for the urgently needed technological breakthroughs in Europe.
