How to prepare university graduates as highly skilled key enabling technologies professionals?

Key Enabling Technologies represent the background of a greener economy and Europe's industrial modernization. High quality preparation of great number of highly skilled Key Enabling Technologies professionals is essential for the future economic growth, competitiveness and innovation of Europe. This article presents experiences acquired by long term involvement of the Institute of Electronics and Photonics, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, in training Key Enabling Technologies professionals. Authors focused their attention on selected examples of available effective tools to prepare highly skilled university graduates.