Our main educational tasks are situated in the field of electronics and informatics - ranging from circuits, device modeling, fabrication technology, computer aided design, optimization of complex systems up to programming concepts, computer architectures and communication. Moreover, specialized courses are offered in our main research domains.

In R&D, three laboratories are covering a wide range of generic technologies in Micro- and Optoelectronics (LAMI), Speech & Audio Processing (DSSP), Multidimensional Signal Processing & Communication (IRIS). Besides its achievements on the level of fundamental and strategic basic research, ETRO is also recognized as a key industrial research pole (IOF) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.