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The Archimedes initiative


The Archimedes Initiative brings together four leading research centres in systems engineering to accelerate progress through knowledge exchange. By sharing best practices, research insights, and expertise across domains, we create a powerful network that transforms ideas into impact.
Our collaboration spans DLR (Germany), TNO-ESI (Netherlands), SERC (USA), and TECoSA (Sweden), each contributing unique strengths from mobility, defence, and high-tech industries. Together, we turn academic discoveries into practical solutions, fostering innovation that benefits industry and society worldwide.
Archimedes

The Archimedes Initiative creates synergies among its members by topical workshops, shared publications, joint research and exchange of knowledge and people.

The Archimedes Initiative was founded in 2022 by four globally leading centers that conduct systems engineering research.

These four centers are: the DLR Institute of Systems Engineering for Future Mobility in Germany, the TNO Embedded Systems Innovation (TNO-ESI) center in The Netherlands, the Systems Engineering Research Center in the U.S.A. and the Swedish Center for Trustworthy Edge Computing Systems and Applications (TECoSA) at KTH.

Many organizations practice systems engineering, but only a limited number of institutes conduct research into systems engineering principles and methodologies. Systems engineering is not to be researched in isolation but in close continuous connection with the engineering practice in the context of concrete applications. The four research centers therefore all operate in the context of an ecosystem of industries and corporations. Further, they are complementary in that they each target a different application domain. DLR works in the field of automotive and maritime mobility, ESI targets the high-tech equipment industry, SERC the defense industry and TECoSA works with the automotive, truck and aircraft industry.

The main aim of the Archimedes Initiative is to accelerate innovation in systems engineering by learning from each other’s best practices. Each application domain is facing similar challenges, but often in different orders of priority. As a result the research agendas of the centres are complimentary, and there is ample opportunity for one center to generalize and build on innovations developed earlier at one of the other peer centres.