The Department co-operate in research projects and networks. Since 1997 nine projects supported by the EC have been closed successfully, and further three ones are approved.

The department performs continuous activity in order to disseminate the newest R&D results in several international and Hungarian organizations and events, like IEEE, IMAPS-CPMT, SIITME (International Symposium for Design and Technology of Electronic Packages).

Currently, BUTE-ETT is involved in 3 FP6 STRAP projects: LEADOUT, FLEXNOLEAD and EMCI.