Recently, an open Network, comprising of the major university laboratories playing a key role in aeronautics research in Greece has been established, so as to offer a focal point for aeronautics research in Greece. The laboratories participating in the Network are:

• Laboratory of Technology & Strength of Materials - University of Patras
• Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems - University of Patras
• Electronics Laboratory - University of Patras
• Laboratory of Materials - University of Thessaly

The Network, which will be managed and coordinated by ISTRAM, operates as a Virtual Research Establishment covering a wide area of aeronautical sectors and aiming, in medium term, to cover the entire area of Aeronautics. The areas of research currently covered by the Network are:

• Aeronautical materials and structures, metallic or composite, differential or integral.
• Innovative Manufacturing Processes, Advanced Human-Centred Design Techniques, including Virtual Reality, and Production Systems Planning, Control and Networking.
• Analog and Integrated Circuits design, Embedded DSP Systems, Computer Vision, Signal Detection and Information Fusion.
• Physical Metallurgy, materials characterization, structure-property relations, alloy design, microstructure and process simulations