NEREUS: an ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership for skills development in the field of "next generation networked media over 4G+ infrastructures"

This paper presents the implementation approach adopted by "NEREUS", an ERASMUS+ KA2 project, which is funded under the Strategic Partnership framework for enabling young engineers to gain multidisciplinary talents in the ICT domain, involving principles from the Informatics and Internet technologies, Telecommunications and Network engineering, Social Media sciences and service/network Security field. It describes the methodology utilized by five (5) European Higher Education Institutes towards the implementation and quality-evaluation of a novel multidisciplinary module/programme for "next generation networked media over 4G+ infrastructures", and elaborates on the planned activities for educating/training students in cutting-edge topics, of i) novel media coding and "green" transport mechanisms, ii) open network architectures with service orchestration, iii) QoS/QoE modeling & management, iv) next generation cloud-based services, and v) secure and trustworthy communications.