Tina Murray - INSPIRE - University of Illinois at Urbana

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The international technical
university of Sweden
In the academic year
2009/2010, KTH had
approximately:
• 1 540 exchange students
• 4 300 registered on Master
programs taught in English
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology • www.kth.se
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Exchange students at KTH
Figures for 2009
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International Master Students
Students with admission qualifications from
the following countries:
Figures for 2009
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Partner universities all over the world
A small selection of the most important KTH partner
universities:
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
École Polytechnique, France
TU München, Germany
UPC, Spain
NUS, National University of Singapore
HKUST, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
University of Melbourne, Australia
University of Tokyo, Japan
Tsinghua University, China
IIT Delhi, India
University of Washington, USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Erasmus Mundus – Top quality
European Education
Erasmus Mundus is an EU program supporting university
cooperation at Master and doctoral levels.
It aims to provide top-quality European education in terms of joint
programs to attract the best students from all over the world.
The programs are offered by a group of partner universities
and include studies in at least two countries. Scholarships covering
both tuition fees and living costs are available.
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Erasmus Mundus – joint Master
programs
• COSSE - Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering
(KTH coordinator, Friedrich-Alexander Univ of Erlangen Nürnberg, TU Berlin, TU Delft)
•EMDC - European Master in Distributed Computing
(KTH coordinator, UPC, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon)
•euSYSBIO- Systems Biology
(KTH coordinator, Aalto Univ, Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon)
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Erasmus Mundus – joint Master
programs
• THRUST - Turbomachinery Aeromechanic University Training
(KTH coordinator, Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Duke Univ, Univ de Liège)
• SELECT - Environmental Pathways for Sustainable Energy Systems
(KTH coordinator, Aalto Univ, Politecnico Torino, TU Eindhoven, UPC)
•NordSecMob – Security and Mobile Computing
(Aalto Univ coordinator, Denmark Techn Univ, KTH, Norwegian Univ of Science and Techn,
Univ of Tartu)
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Erasmus Mundus – joint Master
programs
• MERIT – Research on Information and Communication Technologies
(UPC coordinator, Karlsruhe Inst of Techn, KTH, PoliTorino, Univ Catholique de Louvain)
•ME3- Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy
(Ecole des Mines de Nantes coordinator, KTH, UPM Madrid, Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, Queen’s University of Belfast)
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Erasmus Mundus – joint PhD
programs
• EuroSPIN - A PhD program in Neuroinformatics, including
Computational Neuroscience
(KTH coordinator, Albert Ludwig Univ of Freiburg, Univ of Edinburgh, National
Center for Biological Sciences Bangalore)
• SETS - Joint Doctorate in Sustainable Energy Technologies and
Strategies
(Univ Comillas coordinator, Johns Hopkins, KTH, TU Delft, Univ Paris-Sud 11)
• EDIM - A PhD program in Industrial Management
(KTH coordinator, Politecnico di Milano, UPM Madrid)
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Erasmus Mundus global scholarships
• Erasmus Mundus Action II is a scholarship program
aimed at increasing opportunities for non-European students and
researchers in the EU and vice versa
• Includes scholarships for study periods of 3 to 34 months
• KTH coordinates projects aimed at:
- India
- Central Asia
• KTH participates in projects aimed at:
- Jordan, Lebanon and Syria
- Brazil
- China
- India
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High-level goals for
internationalisation
KTH goals for 2012:
• Increase the number of outgoing exchange students by 100%;
• Increase the number of European students in international Master
programs by 100%;
• Increase the exchange of faculty/staff with foreign universities;
• Increase the rate of employability of graduates on international
markets;
• Further develop cooperation with international elite universities;
• Increase activities within international externally funded projects.
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