Final Report Summary - NANOFORUMEULA (Nanoforum EU Latin America)
This SSA aimed to foster lasting research relations between European research organisations and research organisations in Latin America specialising in nanotechnology. This was done by organising exchange visits for 21 Latin American researchers to four European research organisations specialising in nanotechnology. Furthermore, the project organised a workshop in Brazil and fact-finding missions in Mexico and Brazil to enable European researchers and industrialists to identify opportunities for establishing working relations.
Overall the objectives were to forge nanotechnology research and development (R&D) collaborations between Europe and Latin America, in the technological and economic interest of industry and research organisations in both continents. In the present project we have intensified collaboration between European and Latin American nanotechnology networks and centres. We have organised a visit grant scheme for Latin American researchers to European nanotech labs up to three months and a workshop and two fact-finding missions for Europeans in Latin America.
Some 21 researchers from Latin American countries have visited one of the four European nanotechnology research centres which are participating in the project. It has been possible to invite one more researcher than originally foreseen. Interviews with 16 researchers and an article analysing their responses have been published at interviews and analysis in 2007.
A report on the fact finding mission, a diagnostic report on nanotechnology in Mexico and a whos who of nanotechnology researchers in Mexico have been published end of 2007. A background article on nanotechnology in Brazil and a report on the fact-finding mission in Brazil have been published online at www.nanoforumeula.eu end of 2008. As a follow-up to the project, a limited fact finding mission has been held by the project technical manager in Argentina, from 19 to 23 November 2008. The report has been published on the website of NANOFORUMEULA in January 2008.
Some 21 researchers from Latin America are expected to use their visit to Europe for establishing longer term research cooperation in nanotechnology. The fact-finding missions and workshop held in Mexico and Brazil are expected to enable participants from Europe and Latin America to develop new collaborative projects. These events have resulted in reports mapping the nanotechnology research community in Mexico and Brazil, published online.
The expected impact is that European and Latin American researchers in nanotechnology will cooperate more. The tangible project results will be taken up and developed further in the EU funded ICPC NanoNet project (1 June 2008 31 May 2012), see http://www.icpc-nanonet.org online.
Overall the objectives were to forge nanotechnology research and development (R&D) collaborations between Europe and Latin America, in the technological and economic interest of industry and research organisations in both continents. In the present project we have intensified collaboration between European and Latin American nanotechnology networks and centres. We have organised a visit grant scheme for Latin American researchers to European nanotech labs up to three months and a workshop and two fact-finding missions for Europeans in Latin America.
Some 21 researchers from Latin American countries have visited one of the four European nanotechnology research centres which are participating in the project. It has been possible to invite one more researcher than originally foreseen. Interviews with 16 researchers and an article analysing their responses have been published at interviews and analysis in 2007.
A report on the fact finding mission, a diagnostic report on nanotechnology in Mexico and a whos who of nanotechnology researchers in Mexico have been published end of 2007. A background article on nanotechnology in Brazil and a report on the fact-finding mission in Brazil have been published online at www.nanoforumeula.eu end of 2008. As a follow-up to the project, a limited fact finding mission has been held by the project technical manager in Argentina, from 19 to 23 November 2008. The report has been published on the website of NANOFORUMEULA in January 2008.
Some 21 researchers from Latin America are expected to use their visit to Europe for establishing longer term research cooperation in nanotechnology. The fact-finding missions and workshop held in Mexico and Brazil are expected to enable participants from Europe and Latin America to develop new collaborative projects. These events have resulted in reports mapping the nanotechnology research community in Mexico and Brazil, published online.
The expected impact is that European and Latin American researchers in nanotechnology will cooperate more. The tangible project results will be taken up and developed further in the EU funded ICPC NanoNet project (1 June 2008 31 May 2012), see http://www.icpc-nanonet.org online.
