Excellence Clusters
The world is changing fast at the beginning of the 21st century and major developments are shaping society´s present and future needs – the implications of globalisation and migration, demographic change, climate, resource and energy challenges. Established as a highly selective university network based on excellence, the IDEA League will use its combined forces to achieve urgently-needed technological breakthroughs in the areas of Energy, Environment, Health, ICT, and Mobility.
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.
The IDEA League is a network of five partner universities, each of which is one of the leaders in engineering and technology within its respective country (THES World University Rankings, 2005, 2006 and 2007), 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 a unique, integrated partnership, while also serving as a model of a European cooperation.
