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Micro Nano Technology IP's NoE's started between January 2005 and June 2006
Micro Nano Technology IP's NoE's started before December 2004
Smart High-Integration Flex technologies
Project Reference: 507745
Project Acronym: SHIFT
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: www.elis.ugent.be/ELISgroups/tfcg/projects/shift/welcome.html
SHIFT aims to develop smart, comfortable, highly integrated, mechanically flexible electronic systems to realise the ambient intelligence vision. The trend towards increased functionality, compactness, wearability and reduced weight will be followed by developing flexible electronics, systems and chips taking up the shape of the object and becoming non-noticeable to the user.
CContact: Jan Vanfleteren, IMEC, Belgium
E-mail: Jan.Vanfleteren@elis.ugent.be
Project Reference: 4354
Project Acronym: FLEXIDIS
Action Line: Advanced displays
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 511415
Project Acronym: TERANOVA
Action Line: Optical, opto-electronic, & photonic functional components
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 511607
Project Acronym: MOBILIFE
Action Line: Applications and services for the mobile user and worker
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Hearing in the Communication Society
Project Reference: 4171
Project Acronym: HEARCOM
Action Line: e-inclusion
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Empowering the mobile worker by wearable computing
Project Reference: 4216
Project Acronym: WEARIT@WORK
Action Line: Applications and services for the mobile user and worker
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 001837
Project Acronym: HEALTHY AIMS
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: http://www.healthyaims.org
In HEALTHY AIMS microsystem technologies and communication methods will be developed that will bring intelligence to the human being in the form of medical implants and ambulatory measurement systems and enable information to be transmitted to a wider environment. The resulting medical products will drastically improve the quality of life of the European citizen and reduce the costs of medical treatments significantly.
Contact: Diana Hodgins, European Technology for Business Ltd., UK
E-mail: DMH@etb.co.uk
FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY MONITORING WITH MICROSYSTEMS
Project Reference: 508774
Project Acronym: GOODFOOD
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: http://www.goodfood-project.org
In GOOD FOOD a new generation of analytical methods based on micro and nano-technology solutions for the safety and quality assurance of the complete food chain in the agrofood industry will be developed. A multidisciplinary integration of know-how and technology is required to address the broad requirements in the agro-food field. A vertical and horizontal integration of food, bio and electronics requirements and solutions into an ambient intelligence approach will allow full interconnection and communication of ubiquitous, multi-sensing food monitoring systems.
Contact: Carles Cane, Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica, Spain
E-mail: goodfood@cnm.es
The application of polymer electronics towards ambient intelligence
Project Reference: 507143
Project Acronym: POLYAPPLY
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: http://www.polyapply.org/
The objective of POLYAPPLY is to lay the foundations for a scalable and ubiquitously applicable communication technology by developing polymer-based electronics technologies and applications, leading to a family of products extendable from RF tags at ultra-low costs to RF communication systems with complex functionality. The key for reaching a cost effective production will be the move to a disruptive new in-line manufacturing technology.
Contact: Luigi Occhipinti, ST Microelectronics, Italy
E-mail: luigi.occhipinti@st.com
MIcrosystems platform for MObile Services and Applications
Project Reference: 507045
Project Acronym: MIMOSA
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: http://www.mimosa-fp6.com/
MIMOSA will create a new open platform for context-aware mobile services and applications providing the user a smooth transition from current mobile services to ambient intelligence services. The main focus is on the development of novel low-power microsystems, wireless sensors exploiting the RFID technology, and lowpower MEMS based RF components and modules as well as sensors for context sensitivity and intuitive, user friendly interfaces.
Contact: Pascal Ancey, ST Microelectronics
E-mail: pascal.ancey@st.com
Adaptive Integrated Driver-vehicle Interface
Project Reference: 507674
Project Acronym: AIDE
Action Line: eSafety of road and air transports
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Integrated Secure Platform for Interactive Personal Devices
Project Reference: 507894
Project Acronym: INSPIRED
Action Line: Towards a global dependability and security framework
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Towards the era of personal services at home and everywhere
Project Reference: 506775
Project Acronym: EPERSPACE
Action Line: Networked audiovisual systems and home platforms
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Platform for wide scale integration and visual representation of medical intelligence
Project Reference: 507960
Project Acronym: NOESIS
Action Line: eHealth
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution (PACE)
Project Reference: 002035
Project Acronym: PACE
Action Line: FET pro-actives
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 507816
Project Acronym: MYHEART
Action Line: eHealth
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 507126
Project Acronym: COCOON
Action Line: eHealth
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 507134
Project Acronym: WWI AMBIENT NETWORKS
Action Line: Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project Reference: 506997
Project Acronym: DAIDALOS
Action Line: Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Advanced sensor development for attention, stress, vigilance & sleep/wakefulness monitoring
Project Reference: 507231
Project Acronym: SENSATION
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Integrated Projec
Project URL: www.sensation-eu.org
SENSATION addresses the social diseases caused by excessive fatigue and sleep loss. It aims to explore a wide range of micro- and nano-sensor technologies to achieve unobtrusive, cost-effective, real-time monitoring and prediction of human physiological state in relation to wakefulness, fatigue and stress everywhere and for everybody.
Contact: Evangelos Bekiaris, CERTH/HIT, Greece
E-mail: abek@certh.gr
NMP IPs (selected)
CellPROM - Cell Programming by Nanoscaled Devices
Project Reference: NMP4-CT-2004-500039
Project Acronym: CELLPROM
Contract Type: Integrated Project
Project URL: http://www.cellprom.net/
CellPROM - Cell Programming by Nanoscaled Devices
The vision of the IP is to develop an automated device for the imprinting of cells via nanoscaled macromolecular landscapes, the NanoScapes. This will allow, for the first time, to non-invasively produce well-defined populations of individually programme.
Emerging Nanopatterning Methods
Project Reference: NMP4-CT-2003-500120
Project Acronym: NAPA
Contract Type: Integrated Project
NaPa - Emerging Nanopatterning Methods
The Emerging Nanopatterning Methods (NaPa) consortium integrates the new patterning methods into one project, both anticipating and responding to the increasing need for technologies, standards and metrology required to harness the new application-relevant properties of engineered structures with nm-scale features. NaPa brings together 35 leading academic and industrial European institutions with a vast amount of recent know-how on nanofabrication, partly developed within FP5 (35 parners)
Project Reference: NMP4-CT-2004-500355
Project Acronym: NAIMO
Contract Type: Integrated Project
NAIMO - NAnoscale Integrated processing of self-organizing Multifunctional Organic Materials
NAIMO will develop new multifunctional materials that are processed by solution-based additive manufacturing (e.g. direct printing), under quasi-ambient conditions, so that a set of materials can be added onto a wide range of structural substrates, to form a composite material with designed multifunctionality in an environmentally friendly way. As well as a broad partnership which includes Academic institutions and Industry and Industrial associates there is also a group of industrial associates that support the project without actively participating (23 partners)
IST NOEs (selected)
Network of Excellence for Micro-Optics
Project Reference: 3887
Project Acronym: NEMO
Action Line: Optical, opto-electronic, & photonic functional components
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Design for Micro & Nano Manufacture
Project Reference: 507255
Project Acronym: PATENT
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Project URL: http://www.patent-dfmm.org/
PATENT aims to reduce fragmentation in the field of design for micro and nano-systems manufacture in Europe
Contact: Andrew Richardson, University of Lancaster , UK
E-mail: a.richardson@lancaster.ac.uk
Biometrics for Secure Authentication
Project Reference: 507634
Project Acronym: BIOSECURE
Action Line: Towards a global dependability and security framework
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications
Project Reference: 507325
Project Acronym: NEWCOM
Action Line: Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Advanced MEMS For RF and Millimeter Wave Communications
Project Reference: 507352
Project Acronym: AMICOM
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Project URL: www.laas.fr/AMICOM
AMICOM addresses the emerging field of MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) for radio frequency and millimetre wave communications.
Contact: Robert Plana, LAAS - CNRS, France
E-mail: plana@laas.fr
General Olfaction and Sensing Projects on a European Level
Project Reference: 507610
Project Acronym: GOSPEL
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
GOSPEL focuses on gas sensing and is aimed at creating new devices/algorithms on the one hand and the infrastructure to apply and exploit these on the other hand. The objective is to make gas sensor technology available to a wide set of participants and applications.
Contact: Udo Weimar
University of Tuebingen , Germany
E-mail: gospel-ipc@ipc.uni-tuebingen.de
Project Reference: 507879
Project Acronym: PLASMO-NANO-DEVICES
Action Line: Micro and nano-systems
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
Project URL: www.plasmonanodevices.org
PLASMO-NANO DEVICES proposed the use of materials and MEMS technology to produce small-scale metal strips that could be used as waveguides and could conduct both light and electricity.
Contact: Cristina Brun, Université de Bourgogne
E-mail: Cristina.Brun@u-bourgogne.fr
NMP NOEs (selected)
A network for bringing NANOtechnologies TO LIFE
Project Reference: NMP4-CT-2003-500057
Project Acronym: NANO2LIFE
Contract Type: Network of Excellence
NANO2LIFE - A network for bringing NANOtechnologies TO LIFE
The aim of Nano2Life is to merge existing European expertise and knowledge in the field of nanobiotechnology in order to keep Europe as a competitive partner of the US and Japan and to make it a leader in nanobiotechnology transfer in 5 years time. Nano2Life aims to set the basis of a virtual European Nanobiotech Institute, focused on the understanding of the nanoscale interface between biological and non biological entities, and its possible application in the area of complex and integrated novel sensor technologies, for health care, pharmaceuticals, environment, defence, food safety, etc (24 partners)
The following projects are in negotiation
4M - Multi-Material Micro Manufacture: Technologies and Applications
The main aim of 4M is to develop Micro- and Nano- Technology (MNT) for the batchmanufacture of micro-components and devices in a variety of materials into user-friendly production equipment, processes and manufacturing platforms for incorporation into the factory of the future. To achieve this the proposed NoE will integrate the currently fragmented R&D capacity in non-silicon microtechnologies in ERA into a European Centre of Excellence. The network will have 30 partner' organisations, including 16 core partners - each an internationally recognised centre of excellence - from 10 member states and 4 associated countries (30 partners)
CANAPE - Carbon Nanotubes for Applications
in Electronics, Catalysis, Composites and Nano-Biology
A major limitation on the application of the unique properties
of carbon nanotubes has been their high cost and lack of availability.
This IP brings together leading laboratories and companies within
Europe to produce nanotubes on a bulk scale of ultimate
AIMS - Advanced Interactive Materials by Design
Urgent needs for better production technologies arise from current
development of new pharmaceutical products like fermentation-based
antibodies, recombinant proteins or monoclonal antibodies (MABs).
(28 partners)
ExtreMat-IP - New Materials for Extreme Environments
The goal of this Integrated Project is to provide and to industrialize
knowledge-based materials and their compounds for top-end and
new applications in extreme environments that are beyond reach
with incremental materials development only (38 partners).
SUSTAINPACK - Innovation and Sustainable Development
in the Fibre Based Packaging Value Chain
The overall objective of the RTD activities is to develop and
implement a Sustainable Packaging Tool Platform based on renewable
resources, giving innovative properties to packaging, thereby
offering new value added packaging options for packaging users
and for consumers. The project is expected to result in new
innovative renewable packaging materials with improved material
characteristics (36 partners).
BIOMETECH - Biotechnology for metal bearing
materials
This IP is aimed at developing sustainable solutions covering
the whole life cycle of products and equipment. The Project
will adopt a multi-discipline approach involving mining companies,
waste treatment facilitators and equipment/instrument suppliers.
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ECOTARGET - New and innovative processes for
radical changes of the European pulp and paper industry.
The overall objective of ECOTARGET is to enhance the competitiveness
of the pulp and paper sector (including its suppliers) of Europe
while at the same time improving the eco-efficiency. The partnership
involves leading industrial companies producing pulp and paper
as well as companies supplying this industry with machinery,
chemicals etc. The partnership also involves the major European
research institutes and leading universities active in fields
of relevance (31 partners).
STEPS - A Systems Approach to Tissue Engineering
Processes and Products
STEPS introduces a breakthrough strategy that addresses a new
systems approach to TE and associated technologies. It is the
clear objective of STEPS to provide a totally new infrastructure,
based upon the hypothesis that the only way to create successful
commercialisation and clinical implementation of TE is to systematically
take all aspects of this multi-disciplinary process and apply
the logistics of systems engineering to link them together (25
partners).
IMPRESS - Intermetallic Materials Processing
in Relation to Earth and Space Solidification
The scientific objective of the IMPRESS Integrated Project is
to understand the critical link between materials processing,
structure and final properties of novel, higher-performance
inter-metallic alloys. These multifunctional materials possess
remarkable mechanical, physical and chemical properties, which
make them very attractive for certain extreme applications.
Activities such as education, training and technology transfer
will also be firmly embedded into the RTD programme (45 partners)
NACBO - Novel and improved nanomaterials, chemistries
and apparatus for nanobiotechnology
This IP proposes the research, development and commercialisation
of discrete but overlapping areas of material science, materials
chemistry and supporting/applying hardware systems. It will
deliver novel and improved solutions to emerging and current
needs in biology, health, chemistry, process engineering and
the environment. Most particularly its outputs intend to address
molecular diagnostics (13 partners)
InMAR - Intelligent Materials for Active Noise
Reduction
The objective of the proposed Integrated Project "Intelligent
Materials for Active Noise Reduction (InMAR)" is therefore
the realization of intelligent, high performing adaptive material
systems with integrated electronics able to be applied for noise
mitigation purposes, even in highly loaded structures as construction
material in the same manner as common passive or light weight
materials are used (42 partners).
NMP
Network of Excellence (under negotiation)
SANDiE - Self-Assembled semiconductor Nanostructures
for new Devices in photonics and Electronics
The Network of Excellence is dedicated to the formation of an
integrated and cohesive approach to research and knowledge in
the field of Self-Assembled semiconductor Nanostructures (SAN).
The resources and the approach of the Network spans the study
of fundamental phenomena to their exploitation for the design
of novel materials and structures for use in advanced electronic,
photonic and optoelectronic devices. (28 partners)
CMA - Complex Metallic Alloys
It is proposed to contribute to a strengthening of the competitiveness
of metallic materials for the benefit of European industries
by the formation of a European Network of Excellence CMA developing
within five years into a European Integrated Centre for the
Development of New Metallic Alloys and Compounds (IDEA) (20
partners)
FAME - Functionalised Advanced Materials Engineering
of hybrids and ceramics
FAME will assemble, structure, integrate and expand a world
class-team of researchers in multifunctional Hybrids and Ceramics
as the key building block for an Institute of Advanced Functional
Materials capable of remaining at the forefront of this emerging
and strategically important family of materials technologies
for tomorrow. FAME will be powered by 8 core-partners from Belgium,
France, Germany, Spain, UK - assisted by 14 key partners chosen
either for their specialisation and/or potential to develop
emerging teams or centres (24 partners)
NANOQUANTA - Nanoscale Quantum Simulations
for Nanostructures and Advanced Materials
This NANOQUANTA Network of Excellence proposal sets out a plan
to integrate and develop the research capabilities of ten European
teams in the field of the fundamental science of nanoscale systems
and advanced materials, exploiting the now powerful combination
of quantum-mechanical theory and computer simulation to make
contact with nanoscience experimental studies and also directly
with technologically relevant electronic, dynamic and optical
processes (10 partners)
METAMORPHOSE - MetaMaterials ORganized for
radio, millimeter wave, and PHOtonic Superlattice Engineering
The main scientific objective of this Network is to develop
new types of artificial materials, called metamaterials, with
electromagnetic properties that cannot be found among natural
materials. The results of this development should lead to a
conceptually new range of radio, microwave, and optical technologies,
based on revolutionary new materials made by large-scale assembly
of some basic elements (microscopic and nanoscopic) in unprecedented
combinations. The Metamorphose initiative integrates 13 different
countries around Europe.
I*PROMS - Innovative Production Machines and
Systems (I* PROMS)
The proposed Network of Excellence for Innovative Production
Machines and Systems (I*PROMS) will address the area of production
research in an integrated manner in order to reshape the area
and overcome its current fragmentation. The Network will integrate
the activities of all leading EU research institutions in the
field of production research. I*PROMS comprises 30 member institutions
representing 14 European countries (30 partners).
EXPERTISSUES - Novel Therapeutic Strategies
for Tissue Engineering of Bone and Cartilage Using Second Generation
Biomimetic Scaffolds
The network will bring together Europe's leading academic centres
and several complementary industrial players in a multi-disciplinary
consortium to conduct and structure research that is able to
compete in the internationally arena, namely with USA and Japan.
The size of the network (26 partners from 14 countries, including
10 of the EU member states), and the selection of its original
members, was designed in order to join together the critical
mass and all the expertises needed to be an unavoidable world
reference on the topic of tissue engineering of bone and cartilage
(26 partners)
FRONTIERS - NoE Research and facilities directed
at instrumentation for manufacturing and analysis of single
molecules and individual nanoclusters, targeted at life sciences
Frontiers will focus on the analysis and manipulation of the
bio environment as well as using the experience of the consortium
in technology/integration to create these systems/mutual interaction
to conceptualize/design them (11partners).
NANOFUN-POLY - Nanostructured and functional
polymer-based materials and Nanocomposites
The main objective of NANOFUN-POLY is to generate a Network
of Excellence designed to become the European reference point
on Multifunctional Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposite
Materials. This objective will be reached through a trans-disciplinary
partnership of 150 scientists combining excellence in different
scientific areas, where the synergy of international excellence
and multidisciplinary approaches will lead to develop and spread
knowledge in innovative functional and structural polymer-based
nanomaterials and their sustainable technologies (25 partners)
POLYSACCHARIDES - The European Polysaccharide
Network
Polysaccharides (like cellulose or starch) are by far the polymers
produced in greatest quantity by Nature. This network aims to
organize the EU scientific community around a network in order
to promote the use of these renewable raw materials as industry
feedstock for the manufacturing of advanced, multifunctional
materials. The Network is composed of 16 large and small world
class research groups from 9 countries, covering all needed
expertise regarding polysaccharide types and scientific disciplines
(16 partners)
NANOBEAMS - Nanoanalysis using finely focused
ion and electron beams
In order to match the resolution required for the development
of nanomaterials and provide analytical information, this network
concentrates on analytical techniques using focused ion and
electron beams: Static and dynamic Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry
(SIMS), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Analytical Transmission
Electron Microscopy (TEM) (13 partners)
NANOMEMPRO - Expanding membrane macroscale
applications by exploring nanoscale material properties
The NanoMemPro Network provides answers to the eminent needs
for coordinated future R&D of membrane science and technology
in Europe and smartly links nano and macro scale in both basic
and applied researches, more specifically by establishing a
European virtual laboratory, a European Task force, coordinating
and orienting European membrane research according to the society's
needs (14 partners)
INSIDE-PORES - IN Sltu study and DEvelopment
of processes involving nanoPORE Solids
INSIDE_POReS NoE aims at the congregation of diverse expertise
in the nanoporous materials field in order to develop methodologies
for the "in situ" application of both static and dynamic
techniques and their combinations as a tool to probe the evolution
of properties, which are relevant to specific processes that
involve nanoporous solids (14 partners)
SOFTCOMP - Soft Matter Composites - An approach
to nanoscale functional materials
The proposed network of excellence aims to establish a knowledge
base for an intelligent design of functional and nanoscale soft
matter composites. It will do so in overcoming the present 2
fold fragmentation of this extremely important field for the
development of new materials at the interface of non-living
and living matter where the delicate self organizing principles
of polymeric, amphiphilic and colloidal matter are ubiquitous
(32 partners)
KMM-NoE - Knowledge-based Multicomponent Materials
for Durable and Safe Performance
The KMM-NoE is proposed by 45 partners from leading European
research institutes, university departments, SMEs and industry
¡n the field of KMM designed for enhanced performance
in highly demanding loading and environmental conditions (thermo-mechanical
and impact loading, high strain rates and temperature regimes,
aggressive chemical environment and combinations thereof). Such
regimes are typical of advanced applications in aerospace and
automotive industry, turbo-machinery industry, tribology, electronic
devices, biological implants, microsensors, etc (45 partners).
MASMICRO - Integration of manufacturing systems for Mass-Manufacture of miniature/micro-products
The overall objective of the project is to develop an integrated solution for European miniature/micro- manufacturing and related industries - an integrated manufacturing facility for mass manufacture of miniature/micro-products, and a technology transfer