CCLab

The IDEA League is a collaborative network between several leading European universities of technology, science, and engineering (Delft University of Technology, ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Politecnico di Milano, and RWTH Aachen University).
Since its founding in 1999, the IDEA League has promoted collaboration between these universities through joint degree programs, research initiatives, strategy papers, and quality management initiatives. The members of this strategic alliance have been joining forces and establishing valuable connections to encourage innovation and the pursuit of ambitious goals.

This kind of cross-border, bottom-up collaboration provides an ideal environment for students, researchers, and staff from the partnering universities to share their collective wealth of knowledge, experience, and resources. The aim is to bring together and inspire a new generation of European science and technology graduates, foster innovation and entrepreneurship, and steer Europe towards a more competitive and compassionate future.
Various working groups consisting of experts from all the different member universities work on identifying and solving strategic and targeted challenges.

Since 2020, one of the working groups has been tackling the issue of sustainability on university campuses.
Universities can lead the way into the future by putting what they teach and preach into practice. Society must become carbon-neutral, circular, climate-adaptive, and nature-friendly – and do so soon. Universities can implement sustainability goals on their campuses and in their operations and thereby be a model for other organizations and cities. But how exactly do we make that happen? The IDEA League Expert Working Group on Sustainable Campuses aims to strengthen collaboration and the IDEA League Best Practice to achieve more sustainable campuses.