euRobotics

The European Robotics Coordination Action (euRobotics) is an EU project supported by the Seventh Framework Programme of the Information and Communication Technology - Call: FP7-ICT-2009-4. (Grant Agreement Number 248552) The Coordination Action has two main objectives: Improvement of cooperation between robotics stakeholders in academia and industry Promotion of European robotics Furthermore, euRobotics aims at strengthening the European robotics community across all robotics sectors (industrial, professional service, domestic service, security and space robotics). This project's ambition is to create sustainable solutions to both goals, through targeted stimulation of grass-roots initiatives of concern to both industrial and academic communities. The driver behind these targeted stimulations will mainly be the robotics industry (since its needs for innovation and strong positioning in the worldwide robotics market are greatest), but the academic research community will be heavily involved via a system of flexible, targeted expert contributions whose benefits are easy to identify and communicate. Key players from both the industrially driven EUROP and the academic network EURON are members of this consortium and are hence in a very good position to target the first objective. The euRobotics project will incorporate the experiences of both communities in the past few years and the lessons learned in the process.