Two Dutch universities announce strategic alliance

01 Feb 2011

Eindhoven University of Technology and Utrecht University with its University Medical Centre (UMC) have agreed to extensive cooperation.

The fields of medicine and technology are becoming more and more intertwined and medical professionals and technology experts are increasingly working together. With that in mind the two universities and the UMC will start extensive cooperation in fields such as energy (catalysis), health care, medical data image processing and regenerative medicine.

The partners will invest in joint research and open up possibilities for professors to take up part-time positions at both universities. In addition, students in Utrecht and Eindhoven will have access to the education programmes of both universities. Furthermore, the institutions will develop a new master’s programme in the field of biomedical technology.
 

Veerman Committee

The cooperation is in line with the recommendations in the report of the Veerman Committee (Triple Differentiation in Higher Education) issued in April 2010. Among other things, the committee recommended that universities specialize in a specific area of science and that they work together more closely to be able to compete internationally.

Read more about this on the website of Utrecht University (in Dutch).

Share |