For a smart and connected world, competitive technologies have to be tailored. University centres, start-ups and spin-offs can contribute by original ideas to advancing products and services of established companies. Such an approach shifted the region of Graz to leaders in RFID technologies, and the region of Linz to leaders in advanced polymers. The region of Brno aims to apply the successful Austrian model in the field of wireless technologies. Therefore, the project Advanced Wireless Technologies for Clever Engineering (ADWICE) was submitted by the Centre of Sensor, Information and Communication Systems (SIX) on the Czech side TU Wien (TUW) on the Austrian side.
Excellence in research is the key element of the Austrian model. Whereas TUW is set on the 91st position among engineering faculties worldwide by QS World University Rankings, Brno University of Technology, a mother university of SIX, occupies 500+ position. The partnership has to therefore result in the transfer of excellence in research from TUW to SIX. The Brno University of Technology with its excellent laboratory equipment and a clear support of the Czech government to maintain this, on the one hand, and the Technische Universität Wien on the other hand, with its international visible expertise and high reputation, are excellent partners to succeed in shaping a reformed SIX Centre with high international visibility and strong impact on industry. Through implementing the business plan prepared in Phase 1 of the ADWICE project, we will be able to stimulate innovations jointly with companies and even prepare for far-ahead visionary research quests that finally will be the driving future motor for the industry in Moravia.
Increasing excellence in fundamental research, strengthening international aspect of research and improving the attractiveness of applied research are the overall objectives to allow for the upgrade of SIX to an excellent and internationally visible research centre.
