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Public relation in favour of power electronics, e.g. to secure future supply with young engineers. |
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Promote power electronics in the public to politics, academia and potential students. |
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Industry based public relation will keep power electronics (energy technology in general) attractive for students and provide politicians with arguments to support basic research. |
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Getting a highly qualified training for employees. |
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Have universities training for young people on topics of interest for the industry and the possibility to hire such people in the future or to get access to students for practical trainings. |
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Get access to highly qualified interdisciplinary educated engineers. |
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Use of network between industrial partners. |
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Build network between research partners. |
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Possibility to network and exchange information with other companies about their main research interests. |
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Support a network of university and industry partners to strengthen power electronics in Europe. |
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The strengthening and further improvement of the leading position of Europe, from component technology up to system integration, is a major contribution to the sustainable safeguard of the competitive position. |
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Participate in the results of basic research. |
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Promote research projects (products, process, IP). |
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Bundling of resources in research & development and cooperation in pre-competitive area. |
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Time saving in development concepts thanks to parallel work. |
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Use of resources which are not available in-house. |
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Access to public funding. |
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Possibility to influence the "big" directions of research in the way which is most interesting for the company. |
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Fast transfer from basic development to application by research projects initiated by industry in cooperation with leading universities and research institutes in Europe. |
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Drive important long term research topics and share the risk. |
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Power electronics remains also in the future a key technology and innovation driver in a wide field of products and systems e.g. in drives, in energy generation and distribution. |
