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from MINOS partners
| 1. MINAM Launch and Brokerage Event 2008, Brussels, Belgium, 23-24 January 2008 (past event) [...details]
MINAM – the European Platform of the Micro- and Nano-Manufacturing Community Starts Work
More than 150 high ranking representatives of the European Commission, from industry and research institutes all over Europe including like Russia and Turkey met in Brussels to celebrate their launch as a European platform. “We need platforms like MINAM to help implementing the results from research to economic success,” said Dr. von Bose, DG Research, EU Commission, in his welcome address. The strong links between Information and Communication Technology and the MINAM community was one of the main points of the welcome address of Dr. Rosalie Zobel, DG Information Society and Media, EU Commission.
Go to the Launch presentations and photos.
Go to the Brokerage presentations and photos.
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2. The Manufacturing in FP7 Conference took place on 16-17 January 2008 in Cardiff, UK (past event) [...details]
The Conference aimed to provide indepth information about the manufacturing topics addressed in both Theme 3 (Information and Communication Technologies - ICT) and Theme 4 (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies - NMP) of the European Union's 7th Framework Programme, FP7.
Participants from all over Europe had the opportunity during the Conference to network, discuss, and finalise consortia for preparing research proposals in response to the 2nd NMP and 3rd ICT Calls for Proposals.
The Presentations given during Day 1 were focused on:
- Providing information about manufacturing research opportunities in FP7;
- Lessons learnt from results of previous NMP and ICT calls;
- Expert views on proposal evaluation
- Tips for writing successful proposals; and
- Highlights of the manufacturing topics addressed in the current NMP and ICT calls.
During day 2, experts on proposal writing facilitated consultation sessions for new project ideas and/or already initiated proposals addressing manufacturing topics described in the latest NMP and ICT calls.
The presentations given during Day 1 and Day 2 are available on the Conference website […].
The Manufacturing in FP7 Conference was organised by I*PROMS Network of Excellence and sponsored by the European Commission, Welsh Assembly Government and the Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC), Cardiff University, UK - Co-ordinator of I*PROMS NoE. The Conference was also supported by 4M FP6 Networks of Excllence, the European Manufuture Platform, the Working Group on Micro- and NanoManufacturing (MINAM), the LAUNCH-MICRO Integrated Project, the MicroSapient Coordination Action, the MINOS Network and the MEC-based MicroBridge Project which is funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) UK and the Welsh Assembly Government(WAG). |
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3. MINOS databases
New! We have improved the database system with some new features in order to facilitate the access to the information and the management of yours profiles. Therefore we have merged four databases into a single one. The four databases are: specialists, research centers, projects and networks.
The new features are:
- a Research Center profile can be linked to Projects and / or Networks
- a Specialist profile can be linked to a Research Center
- for a Project or a Network profile are listed all the linked Research Centers profiles
- for a Research Center are listed all linked Specialist profiles
- the system is based on a single logon, where the user can manage all the profiles that belongs to his/her account
The allready registered users can login here. If you want to create a new account fill in this form.
New! Matching Partners in FP7 calls 2008 on unified databases
The new forms for the MINOS selection of topics COOPERATION THEME 4 NANOSCIENCES, NANOTECHNOLOGIES, MATERIALS AND NEW PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES - NMP and COOPERATION THEME 2 FOOD, AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES, AND BIOTECHNOLOGY are on the unified databases.
The allready registered users can login here. If you want to create a new account fill in this form.
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4. MINAM/IPMMAN Workshop with occasion of the IPMMAN Annual Meeting, Lisboa, Portugal, 27-28 March 2008 [...details]
Organized by ISQ - Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade |
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PATENT-DfMM Tutorials at DTIP 2008, Nice, France, 8 April 2008 [...details]
Tutorials addressing “Embedded Test Solutions” and “Package Engineering” for Micro Nano Technology (MNT)-based systems. Both tutorials are organised by the EC-funded Network of Excellence "Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture" (PATENT-DfMM). A detailed programme will be updated at: www.patent-dfmm.org.
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6. MNT ERA-Net Conference 2008- „Improving European MNT Programme Co-operation
through ERA-Nets”, Barcelona, Spain, 9 April 2008 [...details]
The objective of the conference is to present achievements and practical results and to discuss strategies for transnational R&D cooperation in MNT. The conference will highlight industrial needs and requirements for transnational R&D cooperation and contribute to the stimulation of near to market Micro and Nanotechnology industrial developments.
A discussion will be stimulated by this international communication forum for research institutes, manufacturers and representatives of funding programmes. The conference participants will exchange practical.
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7. 31st International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology
Reliability and Life-time Prediction-ISSE 2008, Budapest, Hungary, 7-11 May, 2008 [...details]
The International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology is the premier European forum for the exchange of information between senior and young scientists from academic communities and electronic industries from around the world on topics related to their experimental and theoretical work in the very wide-spread field of electronics and microelectronics technology and packaging.
Topics of interest:
- Reliability physics: analysis and life time-prediction in electronics;
- Non-destructive testing, picture acquisition methods;
- Nanotechnology, nanomaterials and nanoelectronics;
- Advanced packaging, new packages and materials, optoelectronics, optical interconnection technology;
- System on chip, system in package;
- Manufacturing processes, process simulation and optimization;
- Innovations in printed circuit board, thin film and thick film techniques;
- Education and information technology in electronics technology;
- System modeling, CAD/CAE in packaging;
- Bio-compatible electronics packaging, environmental, ecology, and toxicology issues in electronics technology
Registration of authors and participants for reduced price: 10 March 2008.
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8. GOSPEL Summer School, Crete, Greece, 25-31 May [...details]
Participants will benefit from:
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Knowledge – delivered by leading researchers through a mixture of lectures, demonstrations, practical exercises (group and individual) and roundtable discussions
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Career development – career planning and examples of commercial exploitation will be discussed
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Multidisciplinary approach – diverse perspectives in technology and biology will be covered
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Networking – opportunity to build personal networks and meet active researchers who are advancing the field in both academia and industry
Programme:
- Biological Chemoreception
- Sampling and Analytical Measurements
- Sensing Devices
- Electronics and Signal Processing
- Information Processing
- Applications of Chemical Sensing
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9. PATENT-DfMM supports Workshop on Reliability & DfX Engineering for System-in-Package Technologiesin Conjunction with European Test Symposium 2008, Lago Maggiore, Italy, 29 May 2008 [...details]
The SiPeX workshop aims to bring together reliability and test engineers to discuss advanced design methodologies, integration technology and assembly engineering for SiP solutions that embrace heterogeneity, multiple energy domains and mixed technology platforms. Papers are invited that address both current challenges and those expected in the future in the following areas:
- Embedded test, Design-for-test and novel test strategies
- Identification, characterization, and modeling of defects, fault and degradation mechanisms
- On-line test, health monitoring fault tolerance and self-repair
- Robust and dependable design strategies, solutions for harsh and challenging environments
- Reliability analysis and modeling techniques, FMEA and Physics of failure
- Reliability measurement and life testing strategies, test structures design, fabrication and characterization.
- Emerging approaches for Design for Reliability and Design for Yield.
- Design for Disposal, Safety Engineering (use of materials and impact on systems)
Call for papers deadline: 3 March 2008. |
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10. The Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN), leaders in nanotechnology information, presents a novel and innovative series of short training courses in nanomedicine [...details]
- "What is Nanomedicine?" (Course Module 1), 18 April 2008: Linnean Society, Picadilly, London
- "NanoBiosensors" (Course Module 2), 27 May 2008: Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, UK
- NanoMedNet Workshop: "'Nanomedicine: Smart Materials and Nanostructured Surfaces", 10 June 2008: TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK
- "Nanotechnology, Drug Delivery and Theranostics"(Course Module 3),
19 June 2008: London School of Pharmacy, UK
- "Nanodiagnostics"(Course Module 4), 24 July 2008: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
- "Regenerative Medicine" (Course Module 5), 5 September 2008: London, UK
- NanoMedNet Workshop: "Nanotechnology in Medical Devices", 23 September 2008: Sheffield, UK
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11. FSRM courses [...details]
- Cantilever based Sensors for Nanoscience, 19 May 2008 [...details] |
- New Trends in Nano-Electronics – NEW !, 22-23 May 2008 [...details] |
- Labs-on-Chip Technologies: Basics and Applications, 9-10 May 2008 [...details] |
| - CMOS Image Sensors, 16-17 May 2008 [...details] |
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12. Hermeticity Testing of Microsystems, a Questionnaire from the PATENT-DfMM Project [...details]
Due to problems associated with the standard helium leak test when applied to microsystems, novel hermeticity test methods are being researched and developed at MISEC, Heriot-Watt University. To ensure the techniques are relevant to industry, we have prepared a brief market survey which aims to help us understand how the hermeticity of devices is currently tested.
All contributors will receive a summary of the survey.
For more information please contact Suzanne Millar, +44 131 451 3774, sm291@hw.ac.uk.
Link to survey: http://www.patent-dfmm.org/site/events/questionnaire.htm. |
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1. MNT-ERA NET Transnational Call 2008 [...details]
Scope of the call: MNT ERA-Net is seeking proposals for commercialisable R&D projects. Consortia of at least two parties from two different participating regions / countries with the knowhow to commercialise the expected results are invited.
All MNT topics are eligible, in particular:
- microsystems
- micro and nano manufacturing
- micro and nano electronics
- nanostructured materials
- Deadline for the submission of pre-proposals is 28 February 2008.
- Deadline for full proposals is 28 April 2008.
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2. NanoSci-E+ Transnational Call for Collaborative Proposals in Nanoscience [...details]
A key objective of nanoscience is to use functional nano-objects as elemental units of smarter functional arrays/devices. Before two functional nano-objects or nano-materials can communicate, a whole science of interfacing and interconnecting must be invented.
The present call is limited to ground-breaking research projects that address the issue of interfacing functional nano-objects or nano-materials.
The call is open to applicants from Austria, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
To get general information on the thematic scope of the Call, eligibility criteria, submission procedure and key dates, read the official Announcement.
Deadline for the submission of Letters of Intent: March 27, 2008.
Deadline for the submission of Full Proposals: July 23, 2008.
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3. Summer school: "Mechanosensors: from biological to
bionic systems", Girona, Spain, 30 March - 3 April 2008. [...details]
The main topics will be:
- biological mechanosensory systems;
- fluid dynamics;
- modelling of system dynamics;
- artificial sensors;
- robotics.
The school is aimed at PhD students and young researchers, as well
as newcomers to the field of mechanosensor systems. |
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4. Micro and Nanotechnologies for neurosciences- A seminar of the Observatory for Micro & Nanotechnologies,
Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris1 April 2008 [...details]
This seminar aims at presenting breakthroughs and emerging trends of micro and nanotechnologies for applied developments in neurosciences: from basic understanding to clinical research.
This one-day seminar, gathering internationally recognised experts, is open to everybody willing to grasp some of the advances brought by the use of micro-nanotechnologies to the study on Neurosciences: past achievements and future prospects. Scientists, engineers, academics, clinicals, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, R&D managers, product or business development managers are welcome to share the best information on these issues. |
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Other future events (source NEXUSplus website, event list sponsored by 4M2C PATRIC SALOMON GmbH)
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MNT Reliability for Aerospace Workshop, Toulouse, France,
6 - 7 March 2008
[...details]
CANEUS Organization has partnered with the French Space Agency - CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), CCT-MCE (Centres de Compétence Technique - Microsystèmes et Composants Electroniques) to host the international “MNT Reliability for Aerospace” Workshop in Toulouse, France, from March 6-7, 2008. As a unique deliverable of this workshop, the final two-group session will be an organized teaming opportunity allowing participants to discover mutual interests. This networking will spark relationships and encourage collaborations on the pilot project and funding mechanism. The broad international attendees will include key speakers and presenters from “MNT Reliability” laboratories and leaders in the aerospace and end-user community.
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DATE 2008 Design, Automation and Test Conference, Munich, Germany, 10 - 14 March 2008 [...details]
DATE combines the world’s favourite electronic systems design conference and Europe’s leading international exhibition for electronic design, automation and test, from system level hardware and software implementation right down to integrated circuit design.
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Photonics Europe 2008,
Strasbourg, France, 7 - 11 April 2008 [...details]
Photonics Europe will bring together different disciplines, technologies, and perspectives from across Europe and around the world. As a participant, you will be among the leaders who are presenting research, developing new contacts, and learning about the latest funding opportunities. Photonics Europe is conferences, workshops, seminars, short courses and an exhibition that will combine into a dynamic learning environment. Photonics Europe will have programmes and experts on new business development Photonics Europe will serve as the platform for new information updates on the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7). Photonics Europe will begin daily with a comprehensive “hot topics” session, and will include a unique welcoming reception, daily coffee breaks, plus other technical and social events. Photonics Europe will present the Innovation Village: a window on creative products developed by universities and research centres Photonics Europe will host the European Village: a display on European initiatives, Networks of Excellence, Integrated Projects and other EC-projects that will showcase their consortium as well as their newest breakthroughs.
For other future events, see NEXUSplus website.
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1. International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (IS-FOE), Halkidiki, Greece, 10-11 July 2008 [...details]
The IS-FOE is a great opportunity to present and discuss current academic, research and industry developments, achievements
and trends in the rapidly growing field of Flexible Organic Electronics with emphasis on the following list of topics:
• Organic electronic materials (small molecule and polymers)
• Organic/inorganic and hybrid materials and systems,
• Flexible substrates & encapsulation methods & materials
• Molecular electronics and photonics
• Self organized systems
• Manufacturing processes (printing, vacuum, chemical)
• Flexible displays & lighting
• Flexible solar cells
• Flexible circuits, sensors and fuel cells
• Theory & modelling (materials, components and devices)
Deadline for the Abstract Submission: 21 April 2008.
Deadline for early registration: 1 June 2008. |
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2. 5th International Conference on “Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies” – NN08, 14-16 July 2008, and the 2nd International Summer School on “Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies” (SS-NN08), 12-18 July 2008, Thessaloniki, Greece [...details]
The NN08 Conference sessions will cover the most advanced topics and subjects in the multidisciplinary areas of:
- Organic Electronics & Photonics and Nanoelectronics
- Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine
- Thin Films, Meta-materials and Spintronics
- Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanomechanics
- Nanotechnology in Energy and Environment
- Theoretical and Computational Modelling at the Nanoscale
- Nanotechnology in Safety and Education
- Nanometrology, Instrumentation and Tools
- Commercialization of Nanotechnology
The Summer School, including the attendance in the NN08 Conference, will review the current state of knowledge in the various fields of N&N. The aim of the SS-NN08 is the training of the next-generation researchers in the nanotechnology fields.
Last year, more than 45 attendees participated in the SS-NN07 from many universities across Europe, and attended lectures given by frontline researchers and professors.
The SS-NN08 includes lectures by distinguished scientists on the current trends in the field of N&N and state-of-the-art techniques, as well as experimental demonstration in laboratory facilities. We expect that the SS-NN08 would be a gate way for innovative high-tech ideas coming from enthusiastic young researchers.
The deadline for abstract submission is 18 April 2008. |
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3. Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 23-25 September 2008 [...details]
Nanotech Northern Europe brings together the field’s top scientists and leading international companies in order to advance the beneficial use of nanotechnology.
The 2008 conference builds up around three key-themed days, each featuring a number of prominent international speakers from academia and leading innovative companies. The program below gives you an idea of what is coming up – new speaker names will be added and the call for contributed presentations is now open. The deadline for submissions is 29th February 2008.
Day 1- Sustainable solutions for energy and environment.
Day 2- Nanotechnology-enabled ICT.
Day 3- Nanobiotechnology and nanomedicine.
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(see www.nano-link.net) 