ESOA · European school of Antennas
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2007-01-01 → 2009-12-31
- EU contribution
- €251,631
- Participants
- 23
- Scheme
- SCF
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - ESOA (European School of Antennas)
The project participated in the organisation and implementation of 22 courses about Antennas, Propagation and Wireless communications. Each course was held in 5 days, with possible home-assignments for extra-credits after the course. The typical format of one course has been 5 hours of lectures in the morning, and 3-4 hours of other activities in the afternoon. These activities have been concerned with exercises, reading of key papers on topical subjects, laboratory experiments, panel discussions, and student plenary presentations. Each course consisted on about 20-25 hours of lectures and 15-20 hours of other activities. The lectures have been provided in part by people from the host Universities, and in part by key-note speakers from the other institutions. The courses also include the participation of key-note speakers from industries and Universities external to the partner institutions. Each course, which foresees a written assessment test, provides to the students from 2 to 4 ECTS credits, depending on the quantity of additional home assignments. The 24 institutions belonging to this MCA project have prepared a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in order to implement and develop ESOA. Besides the main objectives already mentioned, the other scopes of this Memorandum are: 1) pursuing the 'excellence of teaching' as a fundamental principle aiming the ESOA activity; 2) extending and encouraging the participation to ESOA to Parties external to the group; 3) laying down the basis to prolong the ESOA activity beyond the termination of the Marie Curie Action; 4) establishing common rules for the attribution and recognition of doctorate credits; 5) setting the competences of the ESOA board and ESOA leader, as concerned with the structuring, organization and management of the courses.
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Project objective
The European School of Antennas (ESoA) is a new model of geographically distributed school with the objective to reinforce the European training and research in wireless applications. ESoA feasibility has been successfully proved in the FP6 Network of Excellence 'ACE - Antenna Centre of Excellence', using a highly qualified integrated set of advanced post-graduate courses, distributed in the most accredited European research centres on antennas.In the first year of experimentation (2005), ESoA has registered 340 graduated student and 130 speaker in its first 15 courses. The purpose of this proposal is to give a co-financial support to continue the ESoA activity in the triennium 2007 to 2009, with the implementation of 22 courses. The importance and the interest about the present general theme is confirmed by the key roles that the wireless applications play in the Information Society of Technologies, in particular for emerging communications, navigation and sensing services, aeronautics and space, transport, security.The general objectives of the School are:- reinforcing the European excellence in the systems air interface with emphasis on antenna components;- creating an effective specialistic formative offer to complete individual PhD curricula of European students;- increasing the ties in wireless research and development between Universities and Industries on a European scale;- facilitating the interchange of ideas among early stage researchers and trainers as well as among young researchers, thus increasing the future mobility and synergy.The courses of the school have the same format and possess common basic rules of examinations and accreditations; the topics are chosen with minimum overlap of contents and in such a way to cover uniformly research topics from analysis to design and from theory to the applications. The school is furnished by a central management controlled real time by a centralized WEB support.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI SIENA · SIENACoordinatorItaly
- CENTRE TECNOLOGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA · CASTELLDEFELS (BARCELONA)Spain
- CHALMERS TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLA AKTIEBOLAG · GOETEBORGCity levelSweden
- CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE · PRAHA 6Czechia
- DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · LyngbyDenmark
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · LAUSANNESwitzerland
- IMST GMBH · KAMP-LINTFORTGermany
- INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE RENNES, INSTITUT OF ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS OF RENNES · RENNESCity levelFrance
- KARLSRUHE INSTITUT FÜR TECHNOLOGIE · KARLSRUHECity levelGermany
- KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HÖGSKOLAN · STOCKHOLMSweden
- NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH · DELFTCity levelNetherlands
- POLITECNICO DI TORINO · TORINOItaly
- TEKNILLINEN KORKEAKOULU · ESPOOCity levelFinland
- UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID · MADRIDSpain
- UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA · VALENCIASpain
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE · FIRENZEItaly
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · NAPOLIItaly
- UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA · BARCELONASpain
- UNIVERSITE DE MARNE LA VALLEE · MARNE LA VALLEEFrance
- UNIVERSITE DE NICE - SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS · NICEFrance
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM · BIRMINGHAMUnited Kingdom
- UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB · ZAGREBCity levelCroatia
- Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza · RomaItaly
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