Horizon 2020 Projects

Seán Sherlock, the Irish Minister for Research and Innovation, and NanoNet Ireland, the national network representing nanoscience in academia and industry, have officially launched Nanoweek 2013.

Although SIINN ERA-NET project co-ordinator Dr Rainer Hagenbeck welcomes the extra financing under H2020, changes to the Commission’s contribution could be detrimental to future projects.

A European nanomedicine technology body has called for the development of an industry supply chain and ecosystem in Europe to assist the development of new medical solutions and products.

CRANN has celebrated its 10th anniversary with a major event at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Attendees included Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Eamonn Sinnott of Intel Ireland.

Dublin is making final preparations for ‘EuroNanoForum 2013’, a major conference on nanotechnology taking place in June.

Horizon2020projects.com talks to Olivier Salvi, work plan leader of the nanoSTAIR project, about the importance of knowledge transfer within this Key Enabling Technology and his thoughts for H2020.

The University of Navarra’s Dr Maurizio Bendandi provides an update on his quest to develop an idiotypic vaccine and explains how cuts to European research budgets can hinder future breakthroughs.

Trinity College Dublin is awarded €2.5m from the European Research Council to fund extra research into nanotechnology.

The Nanotechnology Industries Association’s Dr Steffi Friedrichs outlines the importance of public private partnerships for maintaining investment in the technology and her hopes for Horizon 2020.