• Recruitment based upon high standards of excellence
• Doctoral training and instruction during the 3 thesis years
• Monitoring throughout the thesis
• An international orientation

• Material sciences and mechanical engineering
• Processes
• Information and communication science and technology
• Health, medicine and sports engineering
• Earth science and environmental engineering
• Industrial engineering
• Biology
• Mathematics

ED SIS received an "A+" rating by AERES ("Assessment Agency for Research and Higher Education") during its 2010 assessment.