Georgia Tech Part of Global Alliance

The Georgia Institute of Technology has joined six of the world’s top technological universities in the formation of the Global Alliance of Technological Universities. Georgia Tech is one of seven founding universities in the global alliance.

The Alliance brings together these leading engineering-based universities in the belief that one of the best ways to address global societal issues is through the joint and concerted development of technological solutions based on top class research in science and technology.

“Grand Challenges” identified by the Alliance include biomedicine and health care, sustainability and global environmental change, security of energy, water and food supplies, security, and changing demographics/ population.

The seven founding universities from Asia, Europe and North America came together on April 7, at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) to formalize the set up of the Alliance. An inaugural forum was also held where senior representatives of the Alliance discussed the role of technological universities in the 21st Century.

Members of the Alliance include the California Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, Imperial College London and Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich (The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and Zurich ETH) in Europe, and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Shanghai Jiaotong University and NTU in Asia.

The Alliance intends to provide a collective academic and technological voice giving impetus to the international community to take action. The target groups include international government bodies and organizations, local and international academic institutions and the international media.