The H2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, ITN ENHANCE Initial Training Network entitled "Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters for Self-Powered Automotive Sensors: from Advanced Lead-Free Materials to Smart Systems (ENHANCE)" provides thirteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) with broad and intensive training within a multidisciplinary research and teaching environment.
ENHANCE links world-leading research groups at academic institutions to give a combined, integrated approach of synthesis/fabrication, characterization, modelling/theory linked to concepts for materials integration in devices and systems. Such a science-supported total engineering approach will lead towards efficient piezoelectric energy harvesters viable for the automotive industry. ESRs will focus on this common research objective, applying a multidisciplinary bottom-up approach, which can be summarised by: "engineered molecule-advanced material- designed device - smart system".