EURON's Activities

Promoting Excellence in Robotics throughout Europe

EURON aims to promote excellence in robotics by providing extensive networking opportunities to all academic and industrial robotics researchers, to exchange the knowledge we already have, and to shape the future of robotics in Europe via intensive cooperation. The activities that support this objective are outlined below, and detailed further in dedicated pages elsewhere on the website. Since we are still in the transition phase from the "old" EURON II network to the "new" EURON 3 network, we have chosen to keep the information about the EURON II activities on this webpage; however, the latter activities are not being maintained anymore (at least not in the form described in the available information).



EURON 3

The EURON 3 Board established Working Groups (WG) to pursue the goals of EURON:

The intention is that each Working Group actively involves members of EURON interested in helping the Board with the group's topic area. EURON is not any longer a funded network, with contractual obligations of some members, but now it's the community itself that is fully responsible for the success of the network. So, any committed members of EURON are welcome to join a group or groups.

Each Working Group has an associated mailing list; for instructions how to join the list of your chosen group, see below.

The Board currently envisages Working Groups operating as follows: for a EURON activity, the appropriate Working Group will elaborate an initial proposal, then create a dedicated mailing list for open discussion of the proposal, after which updated proposals, and eventually a final proposal, will be published. The final proposal will be referred to the EURON community for comments. In (hopefully) exceptional cases where no consensus can be reached, the community will be able to vote during the Annual Meeting.



WG1 Society and Membership

This WG prepares a concrete suggestion about how the new EURON will act as a "society", and what its membership policy will be. This proposal is presented to the EURON Members for discussion and criticism.

After some transition period between EURON II and EURON 3, we are again accepting new memberships, and the Board will make a decision based on the same criteria as the former EURON:
  1. only institutes can become members;
  2. they must belong to the European Union or its associated countries (such as Israel, Turkey, Russia, etc.);
  3. they provide a web link from which their robotics activities are clear;
  4. if accepted, they provide member information, to be specified, for linking into the EURON web site Members section.
These membership criteria are open for discussion.

Please, follow up the evolution of this WG on its web page.


Group Coordinator: Fabio Bonsignorio
Mailing List:
Group: Web Page



WG2 Annual Meeting and Awards


This WG takes care of the major Euron community event, namely the Annual Meeting. Where to hold it? What is the program? How to communicate with the community? Opportunities for sponsoring? How to offer meering opportunities to Special Interest Groups (SIGs), FP6/FP7 projects, groups of individual members that want to discuss some robotics topics? etc.


The WG also coordinates the Awards: the Georges Giralt PhD Award, and the EUnited/EURON Technology Transfer Award.

Please, follow up the evolution of this WG on its web page.




Group Coordinator: Herman Bruyninckx
Mailing List:
Group: Web Page


WG3 Education


This group works towards criteria (quality in content, organisation, durable educational material, ...) for PhD (summer/winter) Schools to be endorsable by EURON. It also will coordinate the location, the content, and the timing of various PhD School organisations, in order to optimize their effectiveness and completeness.

This WG also takes "educational material" within its scope, and comes up with suggestions to link this activity to the Schools.

This WG will devise a procedure that can attach official ECTS points to EURON PhD Schools, in order to establish, eventually, a European Robotics PhD School.

Please, follow up the evolution of this WG on its web page.


Group Coordinator: Angel P. del Pobil
Mailing List:
Group: Web Page


WG4 Roadmapping, Links to Industry, Research Coordination

This group works together with industry and the EC. Industry will lead, EURON will provide input.

In addition, it tries to coordinate activities between European robotics research projects, the European Commission, and the robotics industry. For example: coordination of the workshops that projects plan to organize to reach out to the community; organizing contacts between all European stakeholders to prepare project Calls; etc.

Please, follow up the evolution of this WG on its web page.


Group Coordinator: Jon Agirre Ibarbia
Mailing List:
Group: Web Page



WG5 Electronic Infrastructure and Web Site


This group supports and maintains our web presence, mailing list infrastructure, and the like. It determines access and resourcing policies for electronic infrastructure. It also deals with issues such as replication, security of data, etc.

Please, follow up the evolution of this WG on its web page.


Group Coordinator: John Hallam
Mailing List:
Group: Web Page



Joining a Working Group


To join a Working Group, send an email to with the subject line where is the name of the list for your group. The Group Coordinator will be asked to approve your subscription. Once that is done, you are a member of the list and, thereby, of the Working Group.

The lists are configured as Private Work Groups: anyone can post to them but non-member messages must be approved by the Group Coordinator. Thus if you have input for a Group but do not want to be a member you can always send a message to its list.


EURON II


The list below is kept here as an archive to the activities of the EURON II phase of the network. Some of these "outdated" activities are continued in EURON 3, others are not.


Getting together — networking

Promoting Excellence in Research

Creating Resources



EURON hired a booth and made a presentation at the AUTOMATICA trade fair in Munich in May 2006. [ More details... ].

Getting Involved


We hope that you will get involved in many of EURON's activities and encourage others to do so as well.

Attend Meetings


Attending meetings is an excellent way of making contacts and friends within the community. These contacts are normally interesting, and may also be useful!

EURON Schools are aimed at PhD students so are particularly good for people wishing to deepen an already existing interest. [ More details  ... ]

Contribute to the Initiatives


Your knowledge and resources are valuable — please consider sharing them with others by adding items to the databases, contributing your opinions to the roadmap and benchmarking initiatives, and your information to this website.

Especially, please contribute to the Video Collection for Students asap.

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Use the Resources


Make use of the resources that EURON offers. Much of the information is freely available to all, but for other resources you have to be a EURON member. Apply for the grants, use the databases and the contacts, apply for the awards, use the mailing lists.

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