eFutures: Electronic systems technology for emerging challenges

Electech涵盖传感器、电力电子、嵌入式计算、无线通信技术、自主系统和大面积电子等领域，预计将在行业和价值链的未来发展中发挥基础性作用。这是创新英国的核心战略，其对未来经济增长的重要性怎么强调都不过分。面对国际发展，英国保持强大的电子设计和技术基础至关重要。拟议中的欧洲芯片法案（2022年2月）将在2030年前为欧盟半导体行业筹集4343亿欧元的“政策驱动投资”。美国的芯片法案将带来2800亿美元的投资，以增强其半导体产能，促进研发，创建区域高科技中心，并培养更具包容性的STEM劳动力。英国有一个非常活跃但分散的电子系统学术界，在格拉斯哥，帝国理工学院伦敦，利物浦，曼彻斯特，纽卡斯尔，谢菲尔德，南安普顿，大学学院伦敦和女王大学贝尔法斯特以及卫星活动在一系列其他大学。社区已经能够通过eFutures网络组织成一个有效的电子系统社区（EPSRC eFutures2.0：应对未来挑战补助金，2019年5月至2023年）。除了扩大社区外，现有eFutures2.0网络的目标是为该部门探索多学科机会。eFutures的成功包括：组织了20多场面对面和在线活动（1 825名与会者）;创建了一个新网站和一个YouTube频道，其中有34个视频讲座（来自19个国家的演讲者），共有1180次观看;将网络成员增加了400%以上，并从纯粹的邮寄模式转变为包括社交媒体，实现64%的活动参与者以前没有参与过网络;交付两份新的战略性景观报告：“英国人工智能和脑启发计算硬件的景观”（2021年第四季度）和“医疗保健电子产品：英国的研发”（预计2023年第一季度）。《2021年报告》得到了全国媒体的报道，后续活动（150名与会者），即将推出的高价值提案，以及EPSRC交付计划中的提及。医疗保健报告来自在线和面对面的活动（264名与会者），导致计划补助金提案。该网络资助了六个多学科概念项目（7.8万英镑），使十所英国大学和四所国际大学的11名学者受益;并通过两次面对面的研讨会和在线培训，与59名职业早期和30名职业中期的研究人员进行了重点接触。最终，目的是进一步提高英国电子系统学术研究的影响力，并使社区处于一个强大的，与国内和国际研究人员以及行业合作的竞争地位。如上所述，这将通过继续建立和发展网络成员来实现，组织Net-Zero多学科活动，使我们的社区更广泛地与其他学术领域和公司一起参与该领域，以解决这一关键主题，代表对英国电子系统学术界的强烈关注，支持早期职业研究人员，通过鼓励国家和国际层面的互动和增加资金来发展社区。我们将在eFutures2.0活动取得成功的基础上，通过同一个领导团队和指导小组来实现这一目标。我们的指导集团公司提供了64，000英镑的实物承诺，表明了对这项活动的成功和承诺。

Electech, covering areas such as sensors, power electronics, embedded computing, wireless communication technology, autonomous systems and large-area electronics, is predicted to play a foundational role in the future development of industries and value chains. It is central to Innovate UK's core strategy and its importance to future economic growth cannot be overstated. It is vital that the UK maintains a strong electronics design and technology base in the face of international developments. The proposed European chips act (February 2022), will mobilise 43 43 billion euros by 2030 in 'policy-driven investment' for the EU's semiconductor sector. The US CHIPS Act will result in a $280 billion investment to bolster their semiconductor capacity, catalyse R&D, create regional high-tech hubs and grow a more inclusive STEM workforce.The UK has a very vibrant but dispersed, electronic systems academic community, organised into larger activities in the universities of Glasgow, Imperial College London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Southampton, University College London and Queen's University Belfast as well as satellite activities in a range of other universities. The community have been able to organise into an effective electronic systems community via the eFutures network (EPSRC eFutures2.0: Addressing Future Challenges grant, May2019-2023). In addition to growing the community, the objectives of the existing eFutures2.0 network had been to explore multidisciplinary opportunities for the sector. The successes of eFutures include: the organisation of 20+ in-person and online events (1825 attendees); the creation of a new website and a YouTube channel with 34 videoed talks (speakers from 19 countries) with a total of 1180 views; increased network membership by over 400% and move from a pure mailout model to include social media, achieving 64% of event attendees who had not previously engaged with the network; the delivery of two new, strategic landscaping reports: 'UK Landscape in AI & Brain-Inspired Computing Hardware' (Q4 2021) and 'Electronics for Healthcare: R&D across the UK' (expected Q1 2023). The 2021 Report had national media coverage, follow-up events (150 attendees), an upcoming, high-value proposal and a mention in the EPSRC Delivery Plan. The Healthcare Report results from online and in-person events (264 attendees) leading to a Programme Grant proposal. The network funded six multidisciplinary, concept projects (£78k), benefitting 11 academics across ten UK and four international universities; and delivered focussed engagement with 59 early-career and 30 mid-career researchers via two in-person workshops and online training.Ultimately, the aim is to further enhance the impact of UK electronics systems academic research and put the community in a strong, competitive position for collaboration with both national and international researchers, and industry. As highlighted above this will be achieved by continuing to build and growing network membership, organising the Net-Zero multidisciplinary event to engage our community more broadly in the area with other academic areas and companies to tackle this key topic, represent a strong focus on the electronics systems academic community in the UK, supporting early career researchers and growing the community by encouraging interaction or the national and international level and increasing the funding. We will achieve this by building on the successes of the eFutures2.0 activity with the same leadership team and steering group. The success and commitment to this activity is indicated by the in-kind commitment of £64,000 from our steering group companies.