As key industrial research pole - creator of seven spin-off companies - and group of excellence in Fundamental Research, ETRO is a reliable partner for local and international industry, public services and hospitals. The multidisciplinary research group of more than 120 people gets inspired by unexplored engineering bottlenecks at the interface of various application domains: health care, automotive, media, surveillance, security, public safety, remote sensing, energy, telecommunications, creative industries etc. Creating an impact on the transformation processes of the knowledge society is their ambition.