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EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) is one of two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology. Its location on the shores of Lake Geneva, EPFL brings together a campus of more than 10,000 people. By its novel structure, the school stimulates collaboration between students, professors, researchers and entrepreneurs. These daily interactions give rise to new and groundbreaking work in science, technology and architecture.

The University of Coimbra (UC) is a Portuguese public higher education institution with more than 700 years of experience in education, training and research. The first and the only Portuguese-speaking university until the early 20th century, UC has affirmed its position over the years with a unique mix of tradition, contemporaneity and innovation. The University of Coimbra has a unique tangible and intangible heritage, keystone in the scientific culture of Europe and the World, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. Nowadays, the University of Coimbra has eight faculties (Literature, Law, Medicine, Science and Technology, Pharmacy, Economics, Psychology and Educational Sciences, Sport Sciences and Physical Education) and more than 22 thousand students. To study at the University of Coimbra is to pursue the intellectual history of the country in the school that graduated some of the most distinguished personalities of national culture, science and politics. In 2020, UC was considered the best institution in Portugal and the only one in the world top 20 (17th place) in compliance with the Health and Wellbeing indicator, the third UN Sustainable Development Goal, according to the second edition ranking “The University Impact Rankings”, by Times Higher Education.

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world dedicated to advancing knowledge. KTH is working with industry and society in the pursuit of sustainable solutions to some of humanity’s greatest challenges: climate change, future energy supply, urbanisation and quality of life for the rapidly-growing elderly population. We are addressing these with world leading, high-impact research and education in natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as in architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy. Our educational programmes foster a new generation of engineers, architects, teachers and undergraduate engineers. The five KTH campuses in Greater Stockholm, gather more than 13,000 full-time students, more than 1,700 PhD students and approximately 3,600 full-time employees. For contact information, please see https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/kontakt-kth-1.1947 Communications and Business Liaisons is responsible for this page. Terms of use for KTH's accounts in social media: https://www.kth.se/en/om/kontakt/anvandarvillkor-sociala-medier-1.987747