The partners behind the E4U initiative are

eutema Technology Management GmbH, Austria

eutema is a strategic RTD consultant company based in Vienna, Austria. It is experienced in designing and managing research programmes and projects as well as RTD policies. eutema has experience in the planning and implementation of international RTD collaboration policies. The company has performed national and international strategic studies, projects for the advancement of international research collaboration, and assessments and analysis of research actors in the EU and elsewhere.

eutema has designed research strategies for EU member states, the European Commission, Austrian ministries, the Austrian research council, research promotion agencies, and universities. Its customers include small enterprises as well as global industry players and private research organisations.

European Center for Power Electronics e.V., Germany

Leading power electronics industries have founded the European Center for Power Electronics (ECPE) in 2003 in order to promote research, education and technology transfer in this field. The importance of power electronics shall be demonstrated to the public, to increase acceptance of political decision-makers and students to look for a career in this area. ECPE will be established as an industrial and research network for power electronics in Europe.
 
The main objective of ECPE European Center for Power Electronics e.V. is the promotion of research, innovation, education, publicity and technology transfer in the area of power electronics in Europe. For an efficient realisation two legal bodies have been founded, the registered association ECPE e.V. and the limited company ECPE GmbH.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is the oldest and largest of the Spanish Technical Universities. UPM currently has more than 3000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students, and around 6.000 postgraduate students. The Centro de Electrónica Industrial (UPM-CEI) is a young research centre, created as an evolution and a growth of the former UPM-DIE (División de Ingeniería Electrónica). UPM-CEI is mainly devoted to the following areas: Power conversion systems, Embedded systems design, Power quality. All these research lines have horizontal activities in common, such as the design and integration of electronic systems and the development and use of advanced techniques for modelling and simulation.

University College Cork (Tyndall Institute), Ireland

The Tyndall National Institute was created in 2004 at the initiative of the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment and University College Cork to bring together complementary activities in photonics, electronics and networking research at the National Microelectronics Research Centre, several UCC academic departments and Cork Institute of Technology. The objective is to create a research institute, which would become a focal point of Information and Communications Technology in Ireland, to support industry and academia nationally and to increase the number of qualified graduate students for the ‘knowledge economy’. The strengths of the institute at the present time lie in the area of photonics, electronics, materials and nanotechnologies and their applications for life sciences, communications, power electronics and other industries. Research programmes range from theoretical modelling and design to novel material, nanotechnology, device processing and fabrication, packaging and integration; and novel systems incorporating these new devices.