Sharp Laboratories of Europe was founded to contribute new ideas and technology to Sharp products and to support our major European customers We believe that life is too short to repeat the mistakes of others, but we do ask that when you have made your own mistakes, then you share your learning with others In 2012 we will be researching high efficiency solar cells, home energy management, personal health management and mobile learning, as well as continuing our successful innovation in displays Being in Europe means that we can recruit some of the best European scientists and engineers and we can interact with leading European research institutions For the last five years we have run a very successful graduate programme