For many years, Leiden University, TU Delft and Erasmus University Rotterdam have been collaborating in many fields of education, research and valorisation. Their partnership has been extended and was formalised through the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus strategic alliance, founded in 2012. Our mission is to collaborate in matters of substance and according to our own strengths, thereby contributing to the academic, social, and economic challenges of our time.
Three universities
These three top-ranking universities enjoy excellent international reputations in education and research:
- Leiden University: broad-based research-intensive university with a significant proportion of fundamental research,
- Delft University of Technology: university of technology with a broad spectrum of engineering sciences,
- Erasmus University Rotterdam: socially-oriented research university with a focus on the fields of health, welfare, culture, and administration.
Their quality, complementarity and physical closeness offer unique opportunities for intensive structural collaboration.
Interdisciplinary centres and programmes
Through innovative and outstanding teaching and research, our interdisciplinary centres and programmes seek to contribute towards understanding and solving the major and complex social issues of our time. They work with societal partners and seek to form a basis for further academic and public-private partnerships. |
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centres and Programmes
Research in the fields of science & technology
The three universities have a long tradition of bottom-up collaborations between excellent research groups in such fields as science & technology, quantum technology, biotechnology and computer science. Fundamental en technological research mutually reinforce each other.
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Science & Technology
Medical Delta
Also on the medical-technological field researchers successfully collaborate in Medical Delta, a consortium of the three universities, the Erasmus MC, and the Leiden University Medical Centre, as well as public-sector bodies and businesses.
Medical Delta
Innovative education
The three universities are keen to offer their students an outstanding and varied education so they can play a leading role in the world of tomorrow. By working together, the universities broaden their curricula and offer more innovative, attractive and more multidisciplinary education. Students can easily meet due to the physical closeness and thus making real joint education possible.
Leiden-Delft-Erasmus education
In society
As well as a interdisciplinary approach, solving social issues requires structural cooperation from the universities and the private sector, the public sector, and other knowledge institutes. In this way a strong knowledge cluster is created.
Working with society
Joint trainee programme
The three universities have set up a joint two-year management trainee programme.
Trainee programme