TALTECH as the biggest university in Estonia, was founded in 1918, and the University status was granted in 1936. The mission of TALTECH is to support knowledge-based economic development through research and science-based higher education in engineering, natural, and social sciences. The student body of TALTECH approximates 14,000 and the personnel reach 2,000. From January 2017, TALTECH has 4 faculties with 20 departments and one R&D institution, all known as reliable partners in international collaboration networks and projects.

TALTECH’s R&D mission is to create synergy between technology, exact, natural, health and social sciences serving the development of the society. TALTECH mission leads the University to conduct fundamental and applied research at the international level, seeing potential in developing high-tech applications. TALTECH R&D vision is that by the year 2020,

TALTECH:

- has created, in most key areas of R&D, research groups acknowledged in the EU;

- created a modern R&D infrastructure and core labs in excellence areas;

- gathered the vast majority of doctoral studies into doctoral schools; - successfully integrated into international R&D networks;

- is performing a large part of the research services needs of the private and public sector.

TALTECH IN FIGURES: 10,852 students from 94 different countries; 86 curricula, 32 international curricula, 1847 employees from 50 different countries; 1,209 publications, 61.2% in international co-authorship, 77 defended doctoral theses, 28% of them from abroad; 70,417 alumni, 2.5% of them from abroad.