UNITECH International
UNITECH International is a network between distinguished technical universities and multinational companies across Europe. The programme aims to provide future engineers and professionals with skills, experience, and a professional network to solve problems in the industry and society.[2]
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| Founded at | Zurich, Switzerland | 
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| Type | Educational | 
| Legal status | Active | 
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CEO  | Marta Chicano | 
President  | Patrick Prendergast | 
| Website | unitech-international | 
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History
    
UNITECH was founded in 1999 by ETH Zürich's former rector Konrad Osterwalder and Hilti's former CEO Pius Baschera.[3]
After 20 years, the UNITECH network has more than 1000 alumni from 12 different universities. 64 multinational corporate firms have been a part of this network.[3] As of 2021, the network comprises 8 European universities and 12 corporate partners across Europe.
Partner universities
    
- Chalmers University, Sweden[4]
 - ETH Zurich, Switzerland[5]
 - Politecnico di Milano, Italy[6]
 - RWTH Aachen, Germany[7]
 - Loughborough University, United Kingdom[8]
 - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland[9]
 - Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain[10]
 - Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon, France[11]
 
Corporate partners
    
    
External links
    
    
References
    
- "The Board". unitech-international.org. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
 - Baschera, Pius; Rickert, Nils (2001), Weichert, D.; Rauhut, B.; Schmidt, R. (eds.), "Developing Leaders for Technology Intensive Companies: The UNITECH International Story", Educating the Engineer for the 21st Century, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 45–52, doi:10.1007/0-306-48394-7_6, ISBN 978-1-4020-0096-6
 - "20 Years of UNITECH". unitech-international.org. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
 -  "UNITECH International". www.chalmers.se. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "UNITECH International". ethz.ch. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
 -  "Politecnico di Milano: Unitech". Politecnico di Milano. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) -  "UNITECH International". RWTH Aachen University. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) -  "UNITECH | Erasmus+ and International Exchange Programmes". Loughborough University. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "UNITECH - School of Engineering - Trinity College Dublin".
 - "What is UNITECH?".
 - "Unitech". 3 October 2014.
 
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