VisIoN has made substantial contributions to the fundamental scientific understanding, technical knowledge and development of the VLC technology targeted for certain applications.
In addition, VisIoN facilitated extensive and focused technical training of ESRs in several areas including optical communications, photonics and devices / subsystems, wireless communications, information theory, physical and upper layer protocols, analytical and simulation, design and implementation as well as assessment, characterization, and evaluation to help them in their research and prepare them for the future technical career.
In addition to technical training, ESRs have benefited from a wide range of complementary non-technical training activities such as entrepreneurship, authoring scientific papers/patents, dissemination, etc.
Also, VisIoN has built on the close scientific and technical collaborations between the academic and industrial partners with complementary expertise, skills, and technical resources.
More specifically, all the research projects carried but by ESRs benefited from co-supervision of at least two partners and several secondments in partner institutions.
The participation of industrial partners has further promoted research training with commercialization perspectives enabling ESRs to fully integrate theory with hands-on practice.
In summary, the VisIoN project has had impact on the ESRs in the following ways:
- Opportunity to be involved with the state of the art technology and to broaden their horizon;
- Ability to work with others within teams;
- Exposition to different cultures, etc.
More globally, the VisIoN project has attracted particular attention within the research community, especially in Europe, due to the outreach activities, and organized a few technical events and participated in several national and international conferences and meeting as well as international standardization bodies to promote the vision and objectives of the project, to disseminate the research outputs, explaining the MSCA funding scheme and how it operates. To this effect, the scientific progress of the project has been very successful.
Quantitatively, so far, the project output in terms of scientific contribution has consisted of 48 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, and 79 publications in international conferences, which is quite outstanding.
