NanoforumEULA for EU-Latin American Nano-collaborations

Ineke Malsch, Malsch TechnoValuationNanoforumEULA fact finding mission & workshop

Brazil, September 2008

Table of contents:

1. The NanoforumEULA project aims and scope

2. Work package 1: Research Visit Grant Scheme

3. Work package 2: events in Mexico and Brazil

4. Follow-up project ICPCNanoNet

Specific Support Action Nanoforum EU Latin America:

• Project duration 24 months, 1-12-2006 to 30-11-2008;

• Funding: European Union; Sixth EU Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development; Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences, Knowledge Based Multifunctional Materials and New Production Processes and Devices (FP6, NMP); budget 500,000 euro.

• Aim: to foster lasting research relations between European research organisations and research organisations in Latin America specialising in nanotechnology.

• www.nanoforumeula.eu

The NanoforumEULA consortium:• UT-MESA+, Enschede, The Netherlands (project coordinator)• Malsch TechnoValuation, Utrecht, The Netherlands (technical manager)• SUFRAMA, Manaus, Brazil• CEA-LETI, MINATEC, Grenoble, France• Fraunhofer-IWS, Dresden, Germany• UAM, Madrid, Spain• IPICyT, Juan Luis Potosi, Mexico

Why NanoforumEULA?UN Millennium Campaign 2000-2015:• Reduce poverty worldwide by half, • Specified in 8 Millennium Development Goals.NanoforumEULA mainly targets MDG 8: • A Global Partnership for Development, • By stimulating durable state of the art nanotechnology

R&D collaboration between leading Latin American and European nanotechnology research organisations

• Through developing nanotechnology R&D proposals for funding by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme for RTD

Work package 1: Research Visit Grant Scheme

~20 Latin American researchers, postdocs or PhD students can receive a grant for three months travel, subsistence and research expenses in one of the four nanotechnology research centres in the NanoforumEULA consortium in Europe.

• Call opened 1 February 2007 and closed 1 June 2007. • Publication of selected candidates August 2007, • Visits between 15 August 2007 and 1 November 2008.

Work package 1: Research Visit Grant Scheme- 29 applications received, 18 men and 11 women29 applications received, 18 men and 11 women- Mexico: 15, Brazil, 5, Argentina and Colombia: 3, Mexico: 15, Brazil, 5, Argentina and Colombia: 3,

Venezuela: 2, Chile: 1.Venezuela: 2, Chile: 1.- 7 full professors, 12 with PhD; 10 PhD students, 1 lecturer7 full professors, 12 with PhD; 10 PhD students, 1 lecturer- MESA+: 8, Fraunhofer IWS: 6, MINATEC: 3, UAM: 12MESA+: 8, Fraunhofer IWS: 6, MINATEC: 3, UAM: 12

Name position employer country host gender

Conrado Rosales Torres PhD ITESM mexicoFraunhofer IWS m

Francis Aviles Cetina prof CICY mexicoFraunhofer IWS m

Vivechana Agarwal prof UAEM mexico Minatec f

William Javier Herrera prof Univ. Nacional Colombia colombia Minatec m

Sandra Denise Prado prof UFRGS brazil UAM f

Yadira Vega-CantuResear-cher IPICYT mexico Minatec f

Patricio Toro EstayResear-cher Univ. de Chile chile

Fraunhofer IWS m

Name position employer country host gender

Sergio Baron lecturerCETAD - La Plata National Univ argentina Minatec m

Guilherme Osvaldo Dias PhD State Univ. Campinas brazil Minatec m

Luis Fernando Rojas-Ochoa postdoc IPN mexico UAM m

Miztli Yolotzin Yepez Martinez PhD UNAM mexico UAM m

Inga Tuzovskaya postdoc CCMC-UNAM mexico MESA+, UT f

Juan Carlos Moreno Lopez PhD INTEC argentina UAM m

Hugo Tiznado postdoc CCMC-UNAM mexicoFraunhofer IWS m

Name position employer country host gender

Jose Alfredo Alvarez-Chavez Fellow CIO mexico MESA+, UT m

Edgar Zayago Lau AssistantUniv. Autonoma Zacatecas mexico MESA+, UT m

Erika Patricia Briones PhD IPICYT mexico MESA+, UT f

Hector Calderon BenavidesVelumani Subramaniam

Prof.Prof.

IPNITESM

MexicoMexico

Minatec MESA+, UT

Mm

Arturo Garcia Borquez prof ESFM-IPN mexicoFraunhofer IWS m

Ana Korol prof Univ. Nac. De Rosario argentina UAM f

Work package 2: events in Mexico and Brazil:

19-23 August 2007, Cancun, Mexico: XVI IMRC congress, Nanotechnology Symposium

23 August 2007, Cancun, Mexico: NanoforumEULA workshop on Priorities in Nanomaterials Research in Latin America and Europe –cancelled due to Hurricane

24-30 August 2007, Monterrey, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City: NanoforumEULA fact finding mission Mexico

19-23 November 2008 extra fact finding mission nano in Argentina – Buenos Aires & San Carlos de Bariloche – Ineke Malsch

(4-) 7-13 September 2008 Workshop and Fact Finding Mission Brazil

NanoforumEULA fact finding missions:The following aspects have been covered:• Priorities in research and tours around labs,• National funding and strategy for nanotechnology, • Activities in industry, SMEs, foreign companies R&D in

Mexico,• Innovation, IP, education and training and other relevant

policies, • Relevant international agreements, especially between

Mexico and the EU and European countries,• Relevant sectors where nanotech based products can be

applied: water purification, (sustainable) energy and environmental technology, agro food.

24 to 30-8-2007, Mexico: NanoforumEULA fact finding mission Mexico:

24-25 August: Monterrey

25-27 August: Guanajuato

27-28 August: San Luis Potosi

28-30 August: Mexico City

4- 7-13 September 2008 Workshop and Fact Finding Mission Brazil:

[Workshop 5 September: INMETRO – XEREM, Rio de Janeiro]

Workshop 8 September: CTI, Campinas

Workshop 9 September: UFMG, Belo Horizonte

Workshop 10 September UFPE/RENAMI, Recife

11-13 September MINAPIM Seminar, incl. NanoforumEULA workshop MEMS/NEMS and Aerospace Host Hernan Valenzuela

General information on and results of the NanoforumEULA project including reports on the fact finding missions:

www.nanoforumeula.eu

ICPCNanoNetA web-based repository of nanoscience and nanotechnology

publications, database of researchers and online forum, to inform and

facilitate networking between EU and ICPC (International Cooperation

Partner Countries) RTD.

• funded by EU under Framework Programme 7, grant agreement 218282

• 7 partners from six states: UK, Portugal, Netherlands, Russia, India and China

• €1.3M over 4 years

• started 1st June 2008

www.ICPCNanoNet.org

researcher& organization

database

annualreports

electronicarchive

annualworkshops

onlineactivities

informationgatheringnetworking

publishers & open access repositories

deskresearch

expertinput

Work scheme

• Will provide a fully searchable

database of N&N publications.

• Based on open-source software

(EPrints).

• Full text articles where

available.

• Opportunity for researchers to

upload their own articles.

• Links to other electronic

archives, publishers and

journals.

• Maximising information

provision to researchers.

Electronic archive of nanoscience publications

www.nanoarchive.org

Database of researchers and organizations

• Expands upon the existing

database of EU organizations

on the Nanoforum website to

include similar research

centres in ICPC.

• Provides database of

researcher expertise in ICPC

(identity protected) to facilitate

collaborations.

• Users will be able to search by

keyword, location, facilities,

expertise.

ICPC research activities

• Annual reports of research

activities in ICPC regions:

Africa, Caribbean, Pacific, Asia,

Eastern Europe and Central

Asia (EECA), Latin America,

Mediterranean Partner

Countries (MPC), Western

Balkan Countries (WBC)

• Will include national and

regional research priorities,

major infrastructure, networks,

key researchers and

publications (high citation

index).

Dissemination and networking

• Actively engage researchers to

establish information exchange

and create new collaborations.

• Online workshops (using

Interwise software, AT&T).

• Annual workshops: EU (2009),

China (2010), India (2011),

Russia (2012).

• Webcasting of annual

workshops – allow wider

participation.

Institute of Nanotechnology IoN UK

Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação SPI PT

St Petersburg Electrotechnical University ETU RU

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

JNCASR IN

Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology CSMNT CN

MERIT, Universiteit Maastricht MERIT NL

Malsch TechnoValuation MTV NL

Partners:

For further information please visit www.ICPCNanoNet.org (project website) and

www.nanoarchive.org (electronic archive of nanoscience publications)

or contact the coordinator, Dr Mark Morrison, mark.morrison@nano.org.uk