Realizing the need of interaction between universities and research groups in industry, the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) was founded in 1986 by mathematicians from ten European universities. Since then it has been continuously extending and now it involves about all Euro- pean countries. The aims of ECMI are - To promote the use of mathematical models in industry. - To educate industrial mathematicians to meet the growing demand for such experts. - To operate on a European Scale. Mathematics, as the language of the sciences, has always played an im- portant role in...