Estonia’s University of Tartu will receive a big boost in the research of functional materials for medical devices and robotics, especially in terms of minimally invasive and wearable medical robotics. It will strengthen its capacity for scientific excellence in this field through exchanges of competences and resources with leading European partners like the Italian Institute of Technology and the Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology at the French National Center for Scientific Research. The EU-funded TWINNIMS project will enable the collaboration. The project will allow the exchange of working visits, mentoring, technology transfer, joint activities and will boost innovation capacities.