EURON is a shorthand for "EUropean RObotics research Network". It is the community of more than 200 academic and industrial groups in Europe with a common interest in doing advanced research and development to make better robots.

The new Call for the 2010 Georges Giralt PhD Award is online.

The benefits of EURON membership are rather obvious, so the network has been able to attract a very large majority of the robotics research groups in Europe, but new members are still popping up all the time.
EURON II stopped accepting new members on Jan 20th (towards the end of the EC-funded period). But EURON 3 accepts new members again. For the time being, the requirements to join remain as simple and clear as they were in the past: (i) only institutes can become EURON member, (ii) the institute must have a Research & Development activity in robotics, and (iii) it must provide information about a website URL and a contact person.

Information can be broadcast via euron-dist, a moderated mailing list for general announcements related to robotics, such as conferences, tables of contents or special issues of robotics journals, job offers, etc. To receive these emails, sign up to the mailing list; you can use the same link to look at the archive of previous messages. (The list is manually moderated, so the bad news is that you can expect some delay in seeing your message appear. The good news is that the list has been 100% spam-free since many years.)

The European Commission sponsored the EURON network (EURON I and EURON II) till the end of April 2008. Since then, EURON 3 continues on the momentum that it gained during almost a decade of networking. A new Board was elected, and that Board is now preparing the activities and policies for the coming years.

EURON gratefully acknowledges the financial support that it received till April 2008 from the Unit Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics of the European Commission. Also after the EC funding ended, the communication and cooperation with the EC continues on a regular and constructive basis.

The information on these pages has been sent in by the EURON community. EURON is responsible for neither the accuracy nor the completeness of this information.