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Nano4m Newsletter n.5 - December 2011 Three years of collaborative work amongst 12 partners and great steps in the study of nanotechnology and its better introduction into the market. This could be the sentence, which summarizes Nano4m – Nanotechnology for Market. The European project, funded by INTERREG IVC, involves four regions and twelve partners in Asturias (Spain), Lorraine (France), North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), and Tuscany (Italy). Each region is represented by a Regional or Local Authority, and one or two Research and Technological Centers. The European project began in October 2008 and is ending in this month (December 2011); its total budget is € 1,845,892.00 with an ERDF contribution of € 1,384,419.00. |
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 Important events with the participation of Nano4m partnersDuring the whole duration of the project, Nano4m partners have taken part at events about sciences, micro and nanotechnology. This, of course, has also happened in the last phase of the project. The City of Dortmund is one of the organizers of the NRW NanoConference, which took place on 17th and 18th October in Dortmund (Germany). Nano4m partners MST.factory and CeNTech participated in the conference, which is one of the most important events about nanotechnology worldwide, focusing on improving the way results from research can be implemented commercially. Many companies and institutes in the field of micro and nanotechnology were able to present themselves in the context of an accompanying exhibition. TZM, together with CeNTech, organised and attended a stand at the exhibition. Agenzia per lo Sviluppo, Italian partner of Nano4m together with Circondario Empolese Valdelsa, organized the final conference of the project in its own country on 28th October in Florence, in collaboration with Region Tuscany and Promotion Tuscany (“Toscana Promozione”). Its title was “From research to market. Marked-oriented research strategies of Research and Technological Centers”. The conference was attended by local authorities, experts, members of the other partners (representatives of TZM/MST.factory and Fundación PRODINTEC took part in the conference). |
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 The “Recommendations intended for Regional and Local Authorities in order to improve regional strategies of transfer in the fields of micro and nanotechnology” are online! http://issuu.com/nano4m/docs/nano4mrecommendations They contain the synthesis of the “Think Tank” of the project, exploring important issues, such as how policies could encourage researchers to pursue marked-oriented results preserving science quality. The Recommendations also analyse possible specific measures regarding RTCs that could be implemented and possible priority markets on which policy makers and RTCs could agree on. Great attention on policy tools, which could help to bring research closer to market. |
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 Avilés (Asturias - Spain): Nano4m partners and authorities at the final conference of the European project.After three years since its beginning, Nano4m - Nanotechnology for Market has come to its final months. The project, funded by INTERREG IVC, began in fact in October 2008 and is going to end in December 2011. Its total budget is € 1,845,892.00 with an ERDF contribution of € 1,384,419.00. The transnational project involves four regions (Asturias in Spain, Tuscany in Italy, Lorraine in France, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany) with twelve partners from local governments, research centers and centers of businesses' services. After having met several times in these three years, the partners met for the final conference, which took place in Avilés, Asturias (Spain) on the 29th September, at the ITMA Foundation facilities. |
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Nano4m at the INTERREG IVC Good Practice Fair in Krakow (Poland)
To improve the regions’ capacity to shorten the gap between R&D and market testing new Research-to-Market processes (R2M) 