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TechWorld – Technologies for the Digital World

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The Technologies for the Digital World (TechWorld) Academic Unit aims to establish next generation Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to build the “nervous system” of the future emerging digital society. This nervous system will be based on intelligent robots, infrastructures and services interconnected with digital eco-systems through cloud, edge and high efficiency computing networks. The knowledge-based and human-centered approach will resemble a living being capable of improving the citizens’ quality of life in the future digital world.The TechWorld is based on the main targets of the ICT Horizon 2020 European Program for Research and Innovation. The members of this Unit have eight running European Union projects on this field, one of them as coordinators. The Unit’s objectives also match the R&D priorities at national and regional levels. Three Madrid’s Regional Digital Hubs (“macrogrupos”) are coordinated from TechWorld: Robotics, Telematics and e-Learning.

This Unit is a unique one in the UC3M due the fact that two of its members, Prof. Balaguer and Prof. Azcorra, are elected members of the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Board of Directors (BoD) formed by a very small number of European experts, less than 12 (euRobotics and 5G). BoD directly negotiating with the European Commission the future Work Programs and Strategic Actions. It means that TechWorld is not only based, as others universities Units, in the public-domain information but also, and it is very important, in the Future Strategic Research Agendas.

The main strengths of Technologies for the Digital World, among others, are: a) clear research objectives, b) interdisciplinary approach, c) international oriented research, d) excellence of the team members, e) significant team’s critical mass, and f) knowledge transfer leadership. This way the Unit will enable revolutionary ICT and cyber-physical services and applications, based both on sensor-communication-processing-actuator and knowledg-elearning-imagination holistic approaches.