Values.
Goal for 2015: proportion of foreign teaching and research staff: 10%; proportion of foreign master’s students: 8%; proportion of foreign doctoral students: 10%; competition to fill professors’ positions: 1.5.
Openness: a university with the most international student body in Estonia (more than 1,100 foreign students and exchange students from Europe, Asia, America, Africa – altogether from more than 70 countries). Almost every tenth TUT student is from a foreign country;
collaboration with the top universities of Europe, Asia and the USA;
a U.S. study and cultural centre (American Space) has been developed in TUT Mektory in cooperation with U.S. national authorities and partners;
an Asian Innovation Centre has been developed in TUT Mektory in cooperation with embassies and partners;
joint development projects are promoted with international and fast-growing companies, product development of small and medium-sized enterprises is supported;
summer and winter courses are offered as international continuing education
activities involving all age groups.

Professionalism high requirements for academic positions;
high-quality support activities appropriate for an international working and language environment.
 

Innovativeness implementation of innovative ideas, supporting innovation and business;
supporting prototyping of the university’s industrial property and enterprises and start-up companies;
solving product development problems in cooperation with other companies;
organising business model competitions for students in order to support application of the knowledge obtained at the university in real life;
participation in the Prototron fund together with Tehnopol and Swedbank;
in order to introduce the university and engineering and to make these more down-to-earth, children from 7 years of age are involved.