On 17 July 2025, IMT reached a major milestone in its international cooperation by signing a Key Technology Partnership (KTP) agreement with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). This agreement crowns over two decades of fruitful collaboration—particularly through dual engineering degree programmes—and inaugurates a new era of shared ambitions in research, education, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Collaboration for major transitions
This strategic partnership embodies the shared ambition of IMT and UTS to make a global impact on crucial ecological, industrial, digital, and societal transitions. It builds on ongoing scientific exchanges in several key areas, including water and air treatment, aerospace, industrial risk management, cybersecurity, and IoT.
Strong territorial anchoring
More than just academic cooperation, this partnership formalises a long‑term mutual commitment through structural initiatives: jointly supervised doctoral theses, joint research projects, expertise exchanges, entrepreneurial ventures, and more.
As a tangible sign of its regional embedding, UTS will soon open offices on the IMT Nord Europe campus in Douai, strengthening the territorial and European dimension of this partnership.
“This partnership is a major lever for asserting our joint presence in European projects and positioning ourselves as key players in the profound transformations our societies are undergoing,”
Cécile Dubarry, IMT Executive President.
