Academic partners. Higher Education is a multi-billion Euro business in many countries, and that part of the education including mathematics (therefore much of science and engineering, also economics and other social sciences) is probably 25% of this total. While predictions of the death of traditional universities in favour of a totally e-learning world are wildly exaggerated, it is clear that Universities throughout the EU and beyond are trying to deploy e-learning where appropriate. This is greatly hampered by the absence of a reasonable way of displaying and representing mathematics on the net. Bath, Nice and TUE have all expressed interest in using MONET technology to develop tools and applications in this area.
Academic partners. The knowledge and expertise acquired will underpin further research by the Universities. • Strengthen their competitiveness as higher education institutions worldwide. • Initiate advanced graduate thesis projects in very appealing and current topics such as “Emerging devices”, “TFET circuit design”. • Promote students’ awareness and their interest in energy efficient electronics and zero-power autonomous systems. The combination of high-level universities with well-known research institutes and industry depicts an excellent environment for students and postdoctoral researchers. • Provide access to advanced technological and computational platforms and enable insight into the scientific and industrial environment. • Encourage engineers and scientists in Europe to pursue a career in the field of nanoelectronics. • Devise new practical and theoretical methods and tools to support future capabilities. • Establish vehicle for research funding applications, studentships, doctoral theses, graduate dissertations and undergraduate projects and thus will help European universities to act strong on common performance metric in a competitive international environment. • A key goal of E2SWITCH is to strengthen the competitiveness of Europe. • Initiate exploitation of the results by transferring technology to industrial partners to ensure rapid spread to European industrial companies. • Propagate interactions with international centres of competencies in the field of energy-efficient computing to global Stakeholder Forum. • Engage with licensing of know-how with industry to trigger further R&D co-operation with European and worldwide industry.
