Microelectronics education in Europe in 21 st century

This paper presents some results of European projects for improvement and innovation of engineering education. It summarizes the application of performance support systems, previously used only for company training, in higher education and discusses its advantages. The development of distributed in four European countries performance-centred learning system for information technology, telecommunication, and microelectronics is also presented. As the practice in engineering education is crucial, virtual laboratories with demonstrations, animations and simulations were developed as well as laboratories with remote access to real experiments. Finally, our recent work on the creation of microelectronics Cloud system in nine European countries is presented by an example of building cloud nodes at an installation site.