Sustainability, Technology and Innovation

DIT Dublin Institute of Technology

The Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) is a comprehensive higher education institution, fulfilling a national and international role in providing full-time and part-time programmes across the whole spectrum of higher education, supported by research and scholarship. For over one hundred years the DIT has offered programmes in Engineering, Architecture, Surveying, Business, Arts and Tourism at Craft, Technician, Technologist, Graduate and Post Graduate levels.

DIT’s proven learner-centred approach and city-centre location provides a uniquely positive student experience. Also, with a wide variety of societies and Student Union activities, the student-life experience is second to none.

This Sustainability, Technology and Innovation Masters programme provides an opportunity to spend a semester at this exciting institute in the heart of vibrant Dublin, Ireland.

For more information go to: www.dit.ie

The UPC Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

The UPC-BARCELONA TECH is a university with a consolidated worldwide reputation and an international vision that generates technological innovation and attracts talent. The objectives of the UPC- BARCELONA TECH are based on internationalization, as it is Spain’s technical university with the highest number of international PhD students and Spain’s university with the highest number of international master’s degree students. The UPC- BARCELONA TECH has a vision of innovation and talent in a global and highly competitive world.

The UPC- BARCELONA TECH is home to more strategic research projects funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program than any other Spanish university.

Today, the University is characterized by a purposefully open stance towards international students, a wide selection of master’s degree programs in English, participation in the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and various international research programs, and a consolidated line of worldwide cooperation activities that serve as tools for change and social progress. Our students and faculty maintain links with universities in Europe, Asia and the Americas through both academic exchange and participation in international research projects. An appealing range of educational programs has positioned the University as a welcoming place for the exchange of knowledge, with more than 2,000 foreign students from all over the world enrolling each year. Science, technical fields, technology and architecture form the core of our personality.

For more information go to: www.upc.edu

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six campuses within the Purdue University System.Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and money from Lafayette businessman John Purdue to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name. The first classes were held on September 16, 1874, with three buildings, six instructors, and 39 students. Today, Purdue enrolls the second largest student body of any university in Indiana and has one of the largest international student populations of any public university in the United States. The university's Discovery Park and Purdue Research Park are home to hundreds of medical, biotechnology, and nanotechnology laboratories and companies. Purdue was the first university globally to have ever offered an aeronautics program.

Purdue offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in over 200 major areas of study. The university has been highly influential in America's history of aviation, and Purdue's aviation and aeronautical engineering programs remain among the highest rated and most competitive in the world. Purdue established the first college credit offered in flight training, the first four-year bachelor's degree in aviation, and the first university airport (Purdue University Airport). In the mid-20th century, Purdue's aviation program expanded to encompass advanced spaceflight technology giving rise to Purdue's nickname, Cradle of Astronauts. wenty-two Purdue graduates have gone on to become astronauts, including Gus Grissom (one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts), Neil Armstrong (the first person to walk on the moon), and Eugene Cernan (the most recent person to walk on the moon).

For more information go to: www.purdue.edu