This book presents the overall vision and research outcomes of Nano-Tera.ch which is a
landmark Swiss federal program to advance engineering system and device technologies with
applications to Health and the Environment including smart Energy generation and consumption.
The authors discuss this unprecedented nation-wide program with a lifetime of almost 10 years
and a public funding of more than 120 MCHF which helped to position Switzerland at the
forefront of the research on multi-scale engineering of complex systems and networks and
strongly impacted the Swiss landscape in Engineering Sciences.
