The Mobile Communications Group (MCG) of ITEAM will participate in the European project Wireless In-Body Environment Communications (WIBEC). This project, which will start in January 2016, is an Innovative Training Network that aims to train excellent researchers in the field of wireless communications inside the body. This project will have a duration of 4 years during which 16 researchers will be trained in 8 European institutions, among them, ITEAM from UPV.
WIBEC consortium is coordinated by Oslo University Hospital from Norway and is composed of 3 universities (Norges Tekninsk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Norway; Universitat Politechnica de Valencia, Spain; and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); 3 companies (Sorin CRM, France; Ovesco AG, Germany; and ValoTec, France); and 2 university hospitals (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe, Spain; and Oslo University Hospital, Norway).
WIBEC is one of the 121 proposals funded by the European Commission between the 1320 proposals received from all European countries.