University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing
www.fer.unizg.hrOverview
The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (FER), is one of Croatia’s leading higher education and research institutions in electrical engineering, computing, robotics, communications, and advanced digital technologies. FER plays a major role in building Croatian capabilities in space technologies through education, research, student engagement, and collaboration with industry. The faculty graduates around 450 master’s students per year and has strong interdisciplinary capacity across embedded systems, communications, robotics, remote sensing, GNSS, software, machine learning, and applied physics. It also supports innovation through laboratories, joint degree programmes, and links with the Innovation Center Nikola Tesla and spin-off companies emerging from its research ecosystem. In the space domain, FER contributes through both teaching and applied R&D. It offers specialized education relevant to space systems, including orbital mechanics, satellite subsystems, navigation, GNSS, remote sensing, optical communications, robotics, machine learning, and computer vision. Its research activity includes payload and subsystem development, RF systems, space-relevant robotics, embedded and industrial cybersecurity, and measurement technologies. FER’s distinctive role in the Croatian space ecosystem is as a capability builder linking academic research with industrial space applications.
Core Competencies
Space technology education, robotics and autonomy, remote sensing, GNSS systems, optical communications, embedded systems, attitude determination and control, RF transmitter development, onboard data reduction, industrial cybersecurity
Space Experience
FER is actively involved in multiple space-relevant research and development activities. One of its most prominent projects is the Light Pollution Characterization Module, now in its second phase, which aims to create a global map of artificial light emissions categorized by source type from orbit. FER is also developing attitude determination and control system test methods, X-band satellite link development for CubeSat-class missions, research related to ozone measurement through a Dobson interferometer concept, and experience with HF/UHF ground terminals and X-band signal analysis. Through its courses, student engagement, and collaboration with industrial partners such as Protostar Labs and others, FER is becoming one of Croatia’s most important academic contributors to space technology development.
Collaboration Needs
FER is seeking collaboration with industry partners, ESA system integrators, research institutes, robotics teams, RF and communications experts, and organizations interested in joint R&D, education, and technology demonstration projects. The faculty is particularly interested in partnerships related to space robotics, GNSS and communications, remote sensing, high-fidelity AOCS simulation, payload development, and student-to-industry capability building.
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