Project details
Title:
Network for Evaluation of Propagation and Interference Training
Acronym:
NEPIT
Type:
European, MSCA Doctoral Network
Start Date:
March 1, 2024
End Date:
February 28, 2028
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Frank Leferink, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Other Units Involved:
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Technical University of Wroclaw (Poland), Technical University of Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Otto Van Guericke University – Magdeburg (Germany), Thales (The Netherlands), TIM (Italy), Lumiloop (Germany), Canon (Japan), Mercedes (Germany), Rohde & Schwarz (Germany), Philips, Kawasaki.
Keywords:
Reverberation chambers; Novel testing methods; Closed-loop testing; Electromagnetic Emission; Electromagnetic Immunity
Description:
The NEPIT project brings together world leading experts from Enschede, Magdeburg, Wrocław, Ancona, Dresden and Eindhoven to create a training Network of highly skilled engineers through an integrated doctoral training program based on research in Evaluation of Propagation and Interference that underpins all future technological developments. Specific innovations expected to be achieved are novel test methodologies, novel modelling strategies, suitable simulation techniques and greater accuracy in EM prediction.
Objectives:
The NEPIT doctoral training objectives are:
• Create the European network for a doctoral School for Evaluation of Propagation and Interference, managed by leading scientists with state-of-the-art infrastructure and covering a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches.
• Develop a structural doctoral programme in NEPIT by five leading research groups at renowned universities,in close collaboration with industry, and going beyond the usual boundaries such as including standardisation.
• Strengthen and structure the initial training of researchers in NEPIT at European level.
• Provide trained researchers with the necessary skills to work and excel in industry.
• Improve career perspectives by broad skills development.
• Build a durable consortium in research and training. Therefore exchange of research and doctoral-level education material will continue after the NEPIT project.
• Already now most of the NEPIT beneficiaries contribute to workshops at the key conferences, and this will continue after NEPIT; but then with the 10 DC. Furthermore several NEPIT beneficiaries already collaborate in standardization working groups, NEPIT will strengthen this collaboration such that also after NEPIT this collaboration continues.
Application Contexts:
Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing of electronic devices and systems in novel and reliable test environments. Design, characterization and comparison with traditional methodologies.
Expected Results:
1. Modelling the impact of the random EM environment where systems are deployed, and simulating the EM wave propagation characteristics in semi-enclosed environments.
2. Developing new models and simulation methods for the electromagnetic coupling into and out of complex, distributed systems considering the stochastic behaviour of such coupling mechanisms.
3. Developing advanced measurement techniques for EM propagation and interference which allows for greater repeatability and reproducibility.
4. Developing a full experimental evaluation and characterisation method of electrically large systems.
5. Providing industry with novel test methodologies for reliable in-situ EMC measurements and embedding this inworld-wide accepted standards.
6. Providing a robust and reliable measurement uncertainty for measurements performed using reverberation chambers in a standard, as well as in a non-standard fashion.
7. Providing techniques for appropriate and representative emulation of specific, real-life, electromagnetic environments in the laboratory.
Achivied Results:
Novel testing methods – Comparison with traditional methods – Suggestions for standardization.
Publications:
Jawad Ali, Luca Bastianelli, Emanuel Colella, Alfredo De Leo, Franco Moglie, Valter Mariani Primiani, “FDTD simulations of random boundaries”, accepted for presentation at the International Symposium EMC Europe, 1-5 Sept. 2025, Paris.
Project Web Site:
nepit.eu
Project Social Accounts:
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Events organized for disseminating the project results:
– First Network Wide Event at U-Twente, Enchede, 1-7 March 2025. https://nepit.eu/blogs/NWE-01/
– Workshop on “Spirit of reverb chambers”, 7 March 2025, Enschede. https://nepit.eu/blogs/Spirit-of-Reverb-Chambers/
– Second Network Wide Event, UNIVPM, Ancona, 13-17 April 2026.