CLUSTER

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Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER) is a collection of twelve European universities which focus on science and engineering. There are joint programs and student exchanges held between the universities. The focus of the network is courses and study programmes, the goal being to offer students attractive exchanges between the best institutes of technology in Europe, along with dual degree partnerships at second- and third-cycle level, joint funding applications for courses and study programmes, exchanges for benchmarking purposes and approaches to policy issues at EU level.^[1]

President of CLUSTER is Tanja Brühl, the president of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.^[2]

Mission[]

CLUSTER network aims at:^[3]

• educating professionals to drive the development of paradigm shifting solutions to future societal challenges for the well-being of society and the global community.
• seeding innovation in sustainable use of natural resources and energy conversion and efficiency, combating climate change, providing solutions to health and well-being to create new jobs and prosperity.
• conducting visionary, forward looking research targeting the promotion of societal improvement and advancement through responsible use of science and technology.

The mission is implemented by:

• providing highest quality multidisciplinary agenda in M.Sc. and Ph.D. education by dual degrees and unique opportunities for exchange, research and entrepreneurship, including collaboration with top Chinese universities within the SEEEP network
• hosting an agile network for collaborative initiatives for highly competitive and successful funding for joint research and education
• implementing exchange of best practices for education, administration, campus development, strategy and professional training to support and nurture the continuous renewal of the CLUSTER community
• bringing together university presidents and leadership to enable proactive input to high-level european policy making

Activities[]

CLUSTER's activities include organising a dual doctoral degree and promoting student exchanges, internationalisation of studies and the transfer of best practices from one university to another. The consortium is also engaged in broad-scoped cooperation with Chinese universities of technology. Aalto University has been a member of CLUSTER since 2003.^[4]

Members[]

Active members[]

The participating universities are:^[5]

University	Country
Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan	Sweden
Politecnico di Torino	Italy
KU Leuven	Belgium
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology	Germany
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland
Grenoble Institute of Technology	France
Instituto Superior Técnico	Portugal
Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
Aalto University	Finland
TU Darmstadt	Germany
Eindhoven University of Technology	Netherlands
École Polytechnique de Louvain	Belgium
Polytechnic University of Catalonia	Spain

Associate members[]

Although the number of Cluster members has remained stable over the years, the network is creating new connections with leading universities outside Europe. These associated members are:^[6]

University	Country
Polytechnique Montréal	Canada
Tsinghua University	China
Tomsk Polytecnic University	Russia
University of São Paulo	Brazil

References[]

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External links[]

• CLUSTER

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