About and for Members

What is Euron II?

EURON II is a direct continuation of the original European Robotics Research Network (EURON). It is a network of excellence under the 6th Framework Programme (FP6), funded as part of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme on "Beyond Robotics".

EURON's objective is to implement and maintain a Network of Excellence that allows coordination of research, teaching and education, academic-industry collaboration, and publications and conferences in the area of robotics throughout Europe. EURON will also provide a primary portal for information about European robotics to other interested parties, such as journalists, and roboticists outside Europe.

A summary of EURON's activities during 2005 is now available.

EURON II is organised around four Key Areas:

• 
  Rüdiger Dillmann
  
  Angel Pobil

  Research Coordination

  (under R. Dillmann and A. Pobil),
  particularly responsible for the development of the Research Roadmap and for selecting projects for EURON funding.


• 
  Alícia Casals
  
  Roland Siegwart

  Education and Training

  (under A. Casals and R. Siegwart),
  particularly responsible for the EURON (summer) schools, the WEBook, and the annual PhD award. They are now also in the process of creating a database of robotics course content and one of robotics PhD abstracts.


• 
  Martin Hägele
  
  Erwin Prassler

  Industrial Links

  (under M. Hägele and E. Prassler),
  heavily involved in the EUropean RObotics Platform EUROP, and responsible for creating the Robotics-in-Europe website and for selecting the Technology Transfer Award winners.


• 
  Bruno Siciliano
  
  Frans Groen

  Dissemination

  (under B. Siciliano and F. Groen),
  particularly responsible for this web site, the SpringerSTAR series, and a regular column in the "Robotics and Automation Magazine".

The network is coordinated by KTH, NADA, CAS, SE-100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN.
The coordinator is:
Herman Bruyninckx,
Production engineering, Machine design and Automation (PMA),
Department of Mechanical Engineering (Werktuigkunde),
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Heverlee,
Belgium.
Herman.Bruyninckx AT mech.kuleuven.be

If you would like to know more about these people and what they say about EURON, please see the key people page.

EURON Documents

Many of the necessary forms and documents have been gathered together for easy access.

Many of the results from EURON I are also available.