KTUR was initiated within Eucor – The European Campus network, in which the University of Basel, the University of Freiburg, the Université de Haute-Alsace, the KIT and the Université de Strasbourg collectively form a trinational higher education area currently encompassing 115,000 students and 15,000 researchers. The TriRhenaTech alliance has also joined the initiative. The EU supports KTUR with €1.6 million. On the Swiss side, the two participating universities from northwestern Switzerland are being supported with funding from the Swiss federal government as well as cantonal funding of approximately €300,000 from the cantons of Aargau, Basel-Landschaft, and Jura.
The partners include:
Twelve universities:
– five EUCOR universities (KIT (project coordinator): Strasbourg, Freiburg, Haute-Alsace, and Basel)
– six universities of the TriRhenaTech alliance: (Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Offenburg, Furtwangen, Lörrach, and Northwest Switzerland)
– University of Koblenz-Landau
Four co-financing project partners (Switzerland)
– Swiss Confederation
– Three cantons: Jura, Basel-Landschaft and Aargau
Other partners:
SATT Conectus Alsace, Alsace Tech, Science Pillar of the Upper Rhine Trinational Metropole Region, EGTC Eucor – The European Campus, Grand E-Nov, CCI Alsace Eurométropole, Karlsruhe Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Karlsruhe Economic Development Agency – PAMINA Business Club, Freiburg Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe GmbH & Co. KG, Technologie-Netzwerk Südpfalz e.V., Hightech Zentrum Aargau AG, BaselArea.swiss