ETRO has grown and gained much experience, influenced, researched & developed many innovations and educated many in the broad field of Electronics and Informatics over the past 40 years.

ETRO is today able to offer much in terms of education and research and collaboration with industry. A wide range of excellent courses taught in English and Dutch are available, for foreign as well as national students. They get the opportunity of benefiting from the high standards in education held at the VUB. The vast platform of research topics and integrated projects combining these topics, is open to all PhD candidates and researchers looking to pursue their research in the field of Electronics and Informatics, under the supervision of highly dedicated professors and staff. ETRO has been able to reach and stay at the forefront in fundamental and strategic basic research. ETRO also offers industry, nonprofit organizations and government agencies the opportunity to get involved at a research and professional level.

R&D at ETRO

In R&D, ETRO prides itself on its facilities and its willingness to tackle the unknown resulting in innovative and high quality research. ETRO is made up of three research groups (laboratories) that cover a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- and Optoelectronics, Speech & Audio Processing, Multidimensional Signal Processing & Communication.

LAMI - Micro- and Opto-electronics

AVSP - Audio-Visual Signal Processing

IRIS - Multidimensional Signal Processing & Communication

The exciting and enthusiastic collaboration between these three groups has lead ETRO to integrated transdisciplinary R&D and created new challenging possibilities.

With the knowledge and the spirit of collaboration between its 3 research groups, ETRO is not afraid to cross new boundaries, tackle new challenges and make new discoveries by working in the unknown. Thanks in part to its vision, work ethic and results, ETRO is highly regarded and respected in its field. ETRO also has close cooperation with various Belgian research centers and institutes (ETRO is an associated lab of IMEC, co-founder and partner of iMinds and Intel's Exascience lab,...) and has initiated several spin-off initiatives all of which are successful in their own right. International partnerships include all continents.

Besides its achievements on the level of fundamental and strategic basic research, ETRO is also recognized as a key industrial research pole (IOF) and a group of excellence in Fundamental Research (SRP) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.