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At university level the Dutch Fluid and Solid Mechanics community is organized within two inter-university Research Graduate Schools, namely the J.M. Burgers Centre for Fluid Mechanics (abbreviated JMBC) and the Engineering Mechanics School for Solid Mechanics (abbreviated EM). Together, these two Research Graduate Schools form the Centre of Competence "Fluid and Solid Mechanics" of the 3TU-federation (3TU-FSM). All research groups at the departments of the three technological universities in The Netherlands with international scientific visibility in the area of fluid and solid mechanics participate in one of the two Graduate Schools. Both Graduate Schools are quite well established and are accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Presently, 37 full chairs are participating in the JMBC Graduate School, including about 250 PhD students. Similarly, 20 full chairs are participating in the EM Graduate School, including about 130 PhD students. The total annual input in permanent scientific staff for both research schools amounts to 85 fte (60 fte and 25 fte for JMBC and EM, respectively). Both research schools have a very active course program for PhD students, staff, and scientists from industry on various research subjects. Close contact to industry is guaranteed through the industrial advisory boards. The participating groups per university are summarized in appendix 1.

It is to be noticed that a number of groups participating in the EM Graduate School also participate to a substantial extent in the Leading Technology Institute named Netherlands Institute for Metals research (NIMR).

At the level of the industry and the technological institutes (like TNO, Marin, NLR, Deltares, ECN/NRG) the Dutch Fluid and Solid Mechanics community is organized within the Department of Mechanics of the Royal Dutch Institute of Engineers (KIVI).

To strengthen the (inter-)national position of the Dutch Fluid and Solid Mechanics community, the Netherlands Mechanics Committee (abbreviated NMC) acts as an umbrella organization for the JMBC and EM Graduate Schools and the Department of Mechanics of the KIVI. The NMC is formally recognized as the Dutch representative organization by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM, www.iutam.net/iutam), by the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM, www.cimne.upc.es/iacm), by the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH, www.euromech.org) and by the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS). The NMC also carries out the coordination of the activities for a top Master of Science program on Fluid and Solid Mechanics.

Traditionally, there has been a very good exchange between the groups in the JMBC Graduate School and between the groups in the EM Graduate School. We give some examples. Within TU/e, van Heijst/Clercx, Mattheij, and van Steenhoven have several joint NWO, STW and internal projects. The same holds within TUD for Westerweel and Wesseling and for de Borst and van Keulen.Within UT, Lohse, Kuipers and van der Vegt have several joint FOM, STW and internal projects. Within TUD, there are joint projects between Ooms and the van den Akker group; and the Wesseling group has joint projects with both fluid dynamics groups.

But there are also already close contacts between the 3 TUs. Again some examples are given. Clercx (TU/e) is part-time professor in Twente in the group of van der Vegt. Vice versa, Geurts (UT) is part-time professor in Eindhoven in the group of van Heijst. Lohse, Clercx, van Heijst, and Geurts have joint programmes on rotational thermal convection, combining the TU/e experience on rotational flow with the UT experience on heat transfer. The FOM-program “Turbulence and its role in Energy conversion processes” (managed by van Steenhoven (TU/e)) has tightened the collaboration between the various groups active in Turbulence (a.o. Lohse, van Heijst/Clercx, van Steenhoven, Westerweel). Westerweel (TUD), Mudde (TUD), Lohse (UT), and Kuipers (UT) have regular joint meetings on measuring techniques and imaging. The groups of van Steenhoven (TU/e) and Wesseling (TUD) collaborate for many years on Finite Element Methods for fluid flow problems. Furthermore, within the JMBC Graduate School there are contact groups on experimental methods and on multi-phase flow, mutually tuning research interests. Within the (Leading Technology) Netherlands Institute for Metals Research (NIMR), a structural interaction exists between the research groups of de Borst, Geers and Huétink. Joint NIMR projects are being carried out on material models for forming and crash. Geers and Huétink also co-operate through a joint FOM programme on tailoring of metastable steels. Other structural interactions are present through MicroNed, lead by van Keulen.