BALTECH - UNIVERSITY-CONSORTIUM in SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY www.baltech.info

The goal of Baltech is to create a virtual "Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology" based on a number of universities around the Baltic Sea as a strategic resource for long-term development of education and research in accordance with the needs of the region.

BALTECH 2009

- News
- Scholarships deadlines. Study programmes in English in BALTECH universities.
In 2008 seven scholarships were awarded. From 2009 scholarships are also open to bachelor students.
- BALTECH Annual Conference 2009
The Faculty of Engineering LTH at Lund University is happy to invite you to the BALTECH Annual Conference 2009, to be held in Lund, March 26-27. The topic this year is "Educational Environments of the Future and Quality of Teaching". Please see more information here.
__________________________________________________________________

BALTECH was initiated in May 1997.

There are 8 universities in BALTECH Consortium:
1. Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), Finland
2. Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania
3. Linköping University (LiU), Sweden
4. Lund University (LU), Sweden
5. Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia
6. Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
7. Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), Estonia
8. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU), Lithuania

The Consortium has been set up with the aim to be the solid base for wider partnership and closer cooperation between universities in the Baltic Sea Region within the area of natural sciences, technology and industrial management.

In the long term perspective the goal is to create a virtual "Baltic Sea University of Science and Technology" based on a number of universities around the Baltic Sea as a strategic resource for long-term development of education and research in accordance with the needs of the region.

The Consortium is governed by a Board consisting of representatives of the Partner Universities and a Secretariat appointed by the Board.

Major activities:
- Joint Master programmes in Industrial Engineering and Management (started 1999), and
- Environmental Management and Cleaner Production (start 2002).
- Annual conferences and additional scientific conferences
- Teacher and student exchange, summer courses
- Support to scientific and educational projects
- Scholarships to master and PhD students (Baltech mobility scholarship and ÅF grant)
- Exchange of information among administrative and academic staff
- Baltech Student Union

Contact persons at TUT:
1. Maret Hein, IRO
2. Toomas Käbin - Baltech Secretariat Tallinnas
3. Prof Jakob Kübarsepp, õppeprorektor - BALTECH chairman.

More information about the BALTECH network, activities, conferencies in partner universities: www.baltech.info.

up