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Coordination of Research activities (ERA-NETs) and European Technology Platforms (ETPs)

The main aim is to fight structural weakness of European research. By their nature and means of implementation, the activities carried out within this programme are applicable to all fields of research and technology.

1) ERA-NETs

ERA CHEMISTRY: This ETP aims at establishing a bottom-up European Research Area in science-oriented chemical research without noticeable national, formal and research subject boundaries.
Homepage: http://www.erachemistry.net/

MATERA: The EU funded ERA-NET project aims to encourage national and regional authorities to improve the dissemination in Europe of knowledge gained through materials research, and will also target the launch of joint activities in the field.
ERA-NET project to strengthen collaboration in European materials science (On: CORDIS News, 3rd May 2005)
Homepage: http://www.matera.fi
Project Fact Sheet

MNT ERA-NET: It is this ETP's aim to enhance the competitiveness of the European industry by coordinating European support measures for micro-and nanotechnologies, and through the continuous improvement and streamlining of MNT support services.
Homepage: http://www.mnt-era.net/
Project Fact Sheet

NANOSCI-ERA: This ETP's objective is taking care of the coordination of the national policies in fundamental research at the nanometric scale.
Homepage: http://www.nanosci-era.org/
NanoSciences ERA-NET publishes results of the First Transnational Call for Collaborative Proposals (On: nanoScience Europe)
Project Fact Sheet

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2) ETPs

EUMAT: This ETP was launched in order to assure optimal involvement of industry and other important stakeholders in the process of establishing R&D priorities in the area of advanced engineering materials and technologies.
Homepage: http://www.eumat.org/

ECTP: This European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP) will raise the construction sector to a higher worldbeating level of performance and competitiveness. This will be achieved by analysing the major challenges that the sector faces in terms of society, sustainability and technological development.
Homepage: http://www.ectp.org/eurekabuild_projects.asp

MANUFUTURE: The aim of the European Manufacturing Technology Platform is to develop a "research and innovation" strategy based on a long term vision for a field where there are many technological and economic variables and in consequence to assist the transformation of the European manufacturing industry towards a knowledge-based economy and the achievement of a world leadership in manufacturing.
Homepage: http://www.manufuture.org/

EURATEX: This Technology Platform (European Apparel and Textile Organisation), acts as the voice of the European textile and clothing industry, its main objective is to create an environment with in the European Union which is conducive to the manufacture of textile and clothing products.
Homepage: http://www.euratex.org/

ETPIS: The European Technology Platform on Industrial Safety will intensify networking and stimulate technological and organisational improvement in risk management. It will be achieved thanks to a commonly agreed research agenda, but also by working on education, standardisation, transfer to industry and thanks to strong interactions with other TP concerned by risk issues (e.g. Sustainable Chemistry, Hydrogen…).
Homepage: http://www.industrialsafety-tp.org/

INNOMED: The overall objective of the European Technology Platform Innovative Medicine is to support the development of new medicines, to provide faster access to better medicines for European citizens, and enabling the European biopharmeceutical industry to become world leaders.

Creating biomedical R&D; leadership for Europe to benefit patients and society (Strategic Research Agenda, July 2005)
Creating biomedical R&D; leadership for Europe to benefit patients and society (Vision Paper, December 2004)
European Platform on Innovative Medicines (EUROPA website)
Technology Platform for Innovative Medicines (CORDIS website)

NANOMEDICINE: The European Technology Platform for Nanomedicine aims at elaborating a common European way of working together for the healthcare with the help of nanomedicine.
Ethics group publishes opinion on nanomedicine (CORDIS News article, 29 January 2007)
Ethical aspects of nanomedicine: opinion presented to the Commission by the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (Commission Press Release, 25 January 2007)
Opinion on the ethical aspects of nanomedicine (Opinion No. 21 of the EGE, 17 January 2007)
Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology for Health (Strategic Research Agenda, November 2006)
EU science ethics group to study nanomedicine (On: EurActiv, 25th October 2005)
Vision Paper and Basis for a Strategic Research Agenda for NanoMedicine (Vision paper, September 2005)
NanoMedicine vision paper unveiled at EuroNanoForum (On: EUROPA: Industrial Technologies, 6th September 2005)
Nanomedicine at your service! (On Research headlines, 31st May 2005)
Homepage: http://cordis.europa.eu/nanotechnology/nanomedicine.htm

NANOELECTRONICS: The European Technology Platform for Nanoelectronics (ENIAC) aims at developing a strategy and increasing investment in the nanoelectronics sector."
Homepage: http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/eniac/

SUSCHEM: The European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry (SusChem) brings together a wide spectrum of organizations and individuals looking to boost sustainable chemistry, industrial biotechnology and chemical engineering research, development and innovation in Europe.
Homepage: http://www.suschem.org/