Strengthening Telecommunications Research: "The Hermes Partnership"

In modern society, telecommunications play a significant role. Many sectors, like financial business, health, climate watch, security and not in the latest personal mobile communications depend on advanced telecommunications.

Without doubt wireless communications is one of the pillars of state of art telecommunications. In this area, which is subject of advanced fundamental and applied research, the most leading research institutes, universities and industries, strengthened their efforts by coordinating their research via the Hermes Partnership.

The Partnership operates as an European Centre of Excellence and offers their members a platform for in-depth scientific discussions based on a strong ambition for technical applications.

In total the Partnership includes more than 1000 highly skilled telecommunication researchers with various complementary expertises.

Keywords for the research agenda are: wireless communications, including cellular systems, high speed local area networks, satellite and HAPS communications and positioning. Fields of experience covers applications and multimedia services, network infrastructures, transmission techniques and system component implementations.