AMG Technology first Bulgarian company to receive Eurostars funding
Parliament House, Bulgaria © archer10 (Dennis) 25 February, 2014

First Bulgarian company to receive Eurostars funding

AMG Technology has become the first Bulgarian company to win funding from the Eurostars programme. The company will receive BGN492,700 (~€251,920) for the development of the TRIPLE-S Microscope project, which will develop a powerful and innovative instrument with applications in nanotechnology.

The company will invest an additional BGN158,800. The total cost of the project, including all partners, is €2.3m.

Other partners include GETec, the Austrian SME leading the project; the Austrian Centre for Electron Microscopy and Nanoanalysis; and the Laboratory for Bionanotechnological Instruments of the Polytechnic University in Lausanne, Switzerland. The TRIPLE-S Microscope project was ranked 15th out of 510 entries in the latest Eurostars call for funding.