International Travelling Summer Schools on Microwaves and Lightwaves (ITSS) are a joint event started in 1991 by professors from three european universities: Warsaw University of Technology, Technical University Darmstadt and University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
By twenty four years of ITSS history the number of participating universities have risen. Currently, beside three founders of ITSS, several important partners are core participants:
- Czech Republic
- Czech Techical University - Prague,
- Brno University of Technology
- Italy
- Spain
- Finland
- Aalto University School of Science and Techynology
- Denmark
- Technical University of Denmark
History ...
International Travelling Summer Schools (ITSS) are held annually in July during a week. The ITSS changes the location from one participant university or institute to other each year. Since its first edition, ITSS was moving from East to West:
| Warsaw (1991) |
Bratislava (1997) |
Frankfurt (2003) |
Rome (2009) |
| Rome (1992) |
Chemnitz-Zwickau (1998) |
Brno (2004) |
Metz (2010) |
| Guilford (1993) |
Rome (1999) |
l'Aquila (2005) |
Darmstadt (2011) |
| Darmstadt (1994) |
Moscow (2000) |
Warsaw (2006) |
Brno - Trest (2012) |
| Prague (1995) |
Madrid (2001) |
Pforzheim (2007) |
Warsaw (2013) |
| Warsaw (1996) |
Minsk (2002) |
Prague (2008) |
Copenhagen (2014) |
... and present
Usually about 20 professors and 40 carefully selected students take part in the ITSS. The official language of ITSS is English. The ITSS program consists of about 20 lectures, presenting the newest fields on microwave and optical engineering application and providing up-to-date coverage of fast developing microwave and optoelectronics fields to students. The lectures always include discussion time for students to interact with their professors.
During the ITSS, the students within teams of mixed nationalities work on student projects oriented on design and modelling of microwave and optics devices and systems. At the end of the ITSS, each student team has to represent their student project for about 15 minutes.
Exemplary projects are:
- Automatic System for Highway Toll Collecting
- University W-LAN System
- Spectroscopy System for Measuring Atmospheric Impurities
- Multiband Microwave Tuner for Experimental Software Radio
- Microstrip Antenna Array for Adaptive Cruise Control
- and many, many other ...
In the frame of the ITSS, participating PhD students can give a brief overview about their research. The program of the ITSS include technical and cultural visits, which give some information about the organizing country and helps participants to know themselves better.
Operation of the ITSS is a personal response of participating professors with funding brought in from their universities or governments. The organization of the ITSS is non-profit..