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In depth: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, is to join the EuroTech Universities Alliance, a partnership between five European science and technology universities. The Israeli university will join the partnership on 1 January 2019, EuroTech announced at its annual conference in Brussels on 6 November. It will be the group’s first foray outside Europe.
Full story: Israeli institution to join EuroTech university alliance