586686-EPP-1-2017-1-UK-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB Generated on: Jan 17, 2020

Key Action: Learning Mobility of Individuals

Action Type: Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degrees

Project Title

Smart Telecom and Sensing Networks

Project Coordinator

Organisation ASTON UNIVERSITY

Address ASTON TRIANGLE , B4 7ET BIRMINGHAM , Extra-Regio NUTS 2 , UK

Contact Sergei Turitsyn , + 44 (0) 121 204 3538 , s.k.turitsyn@aston.ac.uk

Project Information

Identifier 586686-EPP-1-2017-1-UK-EPPKA1-JMD-MOB

Project Web Site http://smartnet.astonphotonics.uk/

Start Date Sep 1, 2017

End Date Aug 31, 2022

EC Contribution 3,236,000 EUR

Partners ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON (EL) ,

INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM (FR)

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Project Summary

The Smart Telecom and Sensing Networks (SMARTNET) EMJMD is a two-year (120 ECTS) joint master degree
program with the mission to provide unique training opportunities to a cohort of talented young engineers and
scientist in the inter-disciplinary fields of photonic and 5G wireless technologies for data communication, sensing
and big data processing. This will be accomplished by bringing together three universities with distinctive and
complementary academic qualities and strong educational and research traditions, namely: Aston University
(Birmingham, UK), Aston, Coordinator (key strengths and expertise: wireless and optical communications network
systems, optical sensing, industrial applications); Université Paris-Saclay (France), UPSaclay, through its
member institution Télécom SudParis (Évry, France), TSP and Télécom ParisTech, TPT (key strengths and
expertise: physical layer of telecom and sensing networks, electromagnetics, nano-photonics, antenns design,
microwave technology); University of Athens (Athens, Greece, UoA) (key strengths and expertise: digital signal
processing, machine learning, Big data management systems, security of networks),within a training programme
of well-defined mobility paths designed to award multiple degrees depending on the chosen curriculum. The MSc
programme SMARTNET has been designed through intensive consultations with the European industrial
stakeholders on the required knowledge and skills of their current and future workforce. The proposed EMJMD
has received enthusiastic backing from industry. A focus on the employability of students in the SMARTNET
programme is supported by the strong presence of 18 industrial partners, who will contribute enormously to the
training experience of the students by bridging the gap between academic knowledge and practical applications
and by enhancing their industrial links, employability and entrepreneurial skills. The proposed MSc programmes
have already attracted a substantial international interest from HEIs in Armenia, Australia, USA, Belarus, China,
Egypt, Indonesia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan (see letters of support). We
envisage SMARTNET to become a lighthouse that will attract the brightest minds from all over the world and
create the next generation of international scientific leaders in the big data, photonic and wireless communication
fields, thus enhancing the European knowledge-based economic performance, innovation and competitiveness.

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