NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC NETWORKS

Making the most of its ambitious projects requires expanding the critical mass through the creation of national and international networks, through strong long-term strategic collaboration with partners in industry and research and higher education institutes. In this field ETRO has acquired the needed credibility, thanks in part to its expertise, vision, work ethic and professional attitude, entrepreneurial vision and leadership.

Within the university ETRO is a partner in the following (inter)university wide initiatives:

• AIXPC, AI Expérience Centre. https://experience-centre.ai/
• C4N, Centre for Neurosciences. https://c4n.research.vub.be/
• IBsquare, the InterUniversity BioInstitute of Bioinformatics. https://ibsquare.be/
• FARI, The Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good Institute in Brussels. https://fari.brussels/

The most important partners are:

• Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC). https://www.imec-int.com/en
• Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (RMIB). https://www.meteo.be/en/belgium
• University Hospital of Brussels (UZ-B). https://www.uzbrussel.be/
• Hospital Erasme. https://www.erasme.ulb.ac.be/
• Université de Bruxelles (ULB). https://www.ulb.be/en
• Green Energy Park (GEP). https://www.greenenergypark.be/?lang=en

Joint Labs have been created with the following partners:

• University of Gent. https://www.ugent.be/en
• University College London. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
• University of Patras. https://www.upatras.gr/en/
• Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne. https://www.epfl.ch/en/
• Duke University. https://duke.edu/

Structural Collaboration exists with the following universities and institutes

• Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba via a VLIR-UOS project. https://www.uo.edu.cu/
• Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia via NASCERE project. https://www.ju.edu.et/
• CNS, Campus Numérique de la Santé, The inter-university e-health education and research center of the Schools of Public Health of Kinshasa (UNIKIN), Lubumbashi (UNILU) and Bukavu (UCB), Congo. https://www.be-causehealth.be/nl/
• USMBA, Université Sidi Mohammad iben Abdellah, Fès, Morocco, educational VLIR-UOS project biomedical devices. http://www.usmba.ac.ma/~usmba2/
• ATC, Arusha Technical College, Arusha, Tanzania, educational VLIR-UOS project biomedical devices. https://www.atc.ac.tz/
• KCMC, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre and the KCMOCU, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania, educational VLIR-UOS project biomedical devices. https://www.kcmc.ac.tz/
• CEBE-UR, Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Engineering, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda, educational VLIR-UOS project biomedical devices. http://cebe.ur.ac.rw/
• NorthWest University, Xian, China, Carbon based Nanomaterials and Devices for the THz domain. https://english.nwu.edu.cn/

Collaborations via joint PhD with the following institutes:

• Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. https://www.rma.ac.be/nl
• Kent University, Canterbury, United Kingdom. https://www.kent.ac.uk/
• State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/english
• NorthWest University, Xian, China. https://english.nwu.edu.cn/
• Universidad de Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. https://www.uo.edu.cu/
• Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia. https://www.ju.edu.et/

Joint publications with the following institutes:

BELGIUM

• Royal Military Academy, Brussels, Belgium. https://www.rma.ac.be/nl
• IMEC, Leuven, Belgium. https://www.imec-int.com/en
• University of Gent. https://www.ugent.be/en
• Universite de Bruxelles, ULB. https://www.ulb.be/en
• University College London, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/
• NMDG Engieering, Bornem, Belgium. http://www.nmdg.be/

EUROPE

• Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.ichtj.waw.pl/ichtj/
• Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France. https://www.fresnel.fr/
• Laboratory for Materials and Interface Chemistry, TU-Eindhoven, Nederland. https://research.tue.nl/en
• School of Electrical Engineering and Digital Ars, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. https://www.kent.ac.uk/engineering
• Kotelnikov Institute of RadioEngineering and Electronics of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia. http://www.cplire.ru
• Department of Anatomy, Animal Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. https://unibuc.ro/
• Bioproducts Lab, Bioresource Department, National Research and Development Institute for Chemistry and Petrochemistry, Bucharest, Romania. https://icechim.ro/
• Centre for SemiConductor Technology and OptoElectronics, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg-Essen, Germany. http://www.zho.uni-duisburg-essen.de/start/?l=en
• ASIA Arab-American University, Jenin. Palestinian Territories. https://www.aaup.edu/
• School of Electrical Engineering and Computing & Center of Semiconductor Components and Nanotechnologies, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. http://www.internationaloffice.unicamp.br/english/teaching/graduate/school-electrical-computer-engineering/
• School of Information and Technology, Northwest University, Xi’an, China. https://english.nwu.edu.cn/
• School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. https://en.sues.edu.cn/
• Institute of Applied Physics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. https://en.uestc.edu.cn/

AFRICA

• University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. https://www.uct.ac.za/