Monthly Archives: April 2011

Tuesday, 31 May 9:00 – 12:30 Room Brahms Nanosafety Cluster Meeting: Nanosafety research vision 2015-2020 – Enabling innovations 09:00 Dr Kai Savolainen – Welcome and goals of the meeting 09:00 Dr Nicolas Segebarth – Foreword from the Commission 09:10 Dr … Continue reading


Wednesday, 1 June 9:00 – 13:30 Room Lehar Core theme: What is keeping nanotech innovation policymakers awake at night? Are my policies having real impact on measurable indicators relevant to my policy objectives? Do companies feel that government policy and … Continue reading


NANOfutures

NANOfutures In this interview, Andrea E. Reinhardt, microTEC Gesellschaft für Mikrotechnologie mbH, tells briefly about NANOfutures. Reinhardt is chairing Working Group Communication at Nanofutures.  She also gives her personal statement on the state of nanotechnology in Europe. Listen to the … Continue reading


Supporting transnational research cooperation through networking of funding programmes 31st May 2011 (Budapest) 9:00-12:30 Room Mozart MATERA and MNT-ERA.NET are large networks of funding programmes that have been running since the 6th Framework Programme in order to support the development … Continue reading


1 June 2011 9:00-13:00 Room Liszt This is a public workshop organised by an FP7 cluster of NMP and HEALTH research projects on targeted nanopharmaceuticals for use in medicine. The cluster gathers about 24 projects and 7 of these will … Continue reading


1 June 2011 9:00-12:30 Room Brahms Nanotechnology is an important thematic area which is explicitly mentioned in the EU-US Science & Technology Agreement. The main purpose of the event is to bring US and EU researchers and technology transfer firms … Continue reading


1 June 2011 14:00-18:15 Room Lehar This is a public workshop which will highlight the main results of the NAD project (Title: Nanoparticles for Therapy and Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease – one of the most successful projects at the EU FP7 … Continue reading


31 May 2011 14:30-16:00 Room Mozart EuroNanoForum delegates are invited to take part in an interactive workshop on direct communication between scientists and members of the public, where they will discover new ways of engaging with audiences in a debate … Continue reading


Jani Kivioja

NOKIA Research Center, Eurolaboratory, Cambridge (UK) Jani Kivioja is a Research Leader at Nokia Research Centre Cambridge. The focus of research in the Cambridge unit is around nanotechnology. Kivioja’s team has been actively working on nanowire sensing in order to … Continue reading


Slaven Garaj

Harvard University, Department of Physics (US) Slaven’s research in graphene nanopores has been featured in November 2010 issue of Nature as the cover story. You can read more information about that in Harvard press release. Also, The Nature Materials highlighted … Continue reading