“Network in Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials of industrial

SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME THEME 4
NANOSCIENCES, NANOTECHNOLOGIES,MATERIALS AND NEW
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES-NMP
“Network in Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials of
industrial interest between Europe and Latin American
Countries of MERCOSUR (Argentina-Brazil-Uruguay)”
Project acronym: EULASUR
Grant agreement no.: CSA CA 233467 EULASUR
Index
1- History
2- Overall Project
SCIENCE – INDUSTRY PLATFORM BETWEEN THE EU AND LATINAMERICA IN SELECTED
TOPICS
1st MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN STEERING COMMITTEE
Barcelona, november 27th 2006
09:30 h.
09:45 h.
10:00 h
10.15 h
10:30 h.
11:00 h.
Opening
Prof. Fracesc Gòdia (Rector’s Commissioner for Biotechnology and Biomedicine - UAB)
Prof. Jorge Velasco (Delegate of the CSIC in Brussels)
Dr. Britta Thomsen, (Vice-president of the Energy and Research Commission of the European Parliament)
Presentation of the project
Prof. José Luis Briansó / Prof. Carlos Miravitlles (Spain)
Prof. Hernán A. Bacarini (Argentina)
Dr. Lorenzo Vallès European Commission, Directorate G3 – Materials
Dr. Pierrick Fillon – Scientific Officer INCO
Coffee-break
Topic I: Advanced materials and nanomaterials for industrial applications
Prof. Carlos Miravitlles / Sra. Susana Garelik, from the ICMAB-CSIC
Prof. Jordi Rius, ICMAB – CSIC,
Workpackage A
Dr. Thibaud Coradin, LCMC,
Workpackage B
Prof. Pablo Ordejón / Dr. Jorge Íñiguez ICMAB – CSIC, Workpackage C
12:00 h.
Topic II: Industrial applications of biotechnology in food and agriculture
Dr. Kerstin Röerich, from the University of Humboldt – IASP- Berlin
Prof. Julián Briz, from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
PROJECT OF THE CREATION OF AN INTEGRATED SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION
NETWORK WITH LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES IN SELECTED TOPICS
Topic I:
Advanced materials and nanomaterials for industrial applications
Topic I: Advanced materials and nanomaterials for industrial applications
COORDINATORS:
Europe:
Latin America:
C.Miravitlles (ICMAB – CSIC)
S.Garelik (ICMAB – CSIC)
WORK PACKAGE A:
Advanced characterization of materials and nanomaterials
WORK PACKAGE B:
Nanostructured materials with applications in energy and
biology
WORK PACKAGE C:
Nanomaterials simulation
In the future:
WORK PACKAGE D:
Ceramics
From the periodic table to a product
UNIVERSITIES
          Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Physical, Chemical and Analytical
Solid Chemistry
Condensed Material Physics
Crystallography
Materials Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Electronics
Etc.
Training
- traditional subjects -
RESEARCH GROUPS
 1D.- Nanotubes and fibres
 2D.- Coatings and surfaces
 3D.- Particles, fluids, colloids and crystals
 Hybrid Structures
 Composites
 Multiscale modeling
NEW NANO OBJECTIVES AND MATERIALS
TECHNOLOGICAL CENTRES
     Scaling
Metrology
Process Automation
Durability, Resistance
Etc.
COMPANY
 Manufacturing Ability
 Market
 Innovation Processes
PRODUCT
CONSUMERS
TOPIC I: Advanced materials and nanomaterials for industrial applications
EUROPEAN COORDINATORS: C. Miravitlles and S. Garelik
BUDGET:
TOPIC I: 986.489,56 € x YEAR
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL GEVERNMENTS,
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
INCO – NET
Economic resources for TOPICS organization
2
Coordination and supporting actions
3
Dissemination actions
4
Network of excellence and others
Work
Package A
3
4
TOPIC III
Collaborative projects
TOPIC III
2
TOPIC II
1
TOPIC II
Work
Package B
Work
Package C
Complementary
actions
Complementary
actions
NATIONAL AND REGIONAL GEVERNMENTS,
LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
TECHNOLOGICAL
CENTERS
UNIVERSITIES
COMPANIES
OTHER PRIORITIES, VII FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
TOPIC I
VII FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
THEME 4:
NMP, Nanotechnology, materials and processes
ICT:
Information and Communication Technologies
1
List of Beneficiaries
Beneficiary
Number
Country
Beneficiary name
Beneficiary short
name
Date enter
project
Date exit
project
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
CSIC
Spain
1
36
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
CNRS
France
1
36
Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron
DESY
Germany
1
36
Imperial College
United
Kingdom
1
36
IMPERIAL
5
Copenhagen Business School
CBS
Denmark
1
36
6
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
UAB
Spain
1
36
7
Veneto Nanotech S.C.p.A.
VN
Italy
1
36
8
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
UPMC
France
1
36
9
Universidad Nacional de Luján
UNLu
Argentina
1
36
10
Universidad de la República
UdelaR
Uruguay
1
36
11
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas
y Técnicas
CONICET
Argentina
1
36
12
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
UFMG
Brazil
1
36
13
Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
CNEA
Argentina
1
36
14
Universidade Estadual de Campinas
UNICAMP
Brazil
1
36
1(coord.)
2
3
4
Note: Two research Institutes belonging to CONICET participate in EULASUR:
- CIOp: Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas
- INQUIMAE: Instituto de Química Física de los Materiales, Medio Ambiente y Energía
What it costs
Our project
The main objective of this Coordination Action is to create a
cooperation platform for forming strategic partnerships
between scientists, scientific managers, policy makers,
technology transfer and industrial experts in the European
Community and three Latin-American (LA) countries
belonging to MERCOSUR: Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
(BRAU).
The concept of the EULASUR Co-ordination Action is to focus on
developing research links with leading universities, institutes and
industrial companies in the three southern LA countries, namely Brazil,
Argentina and Uruguay (BRAU), which are expected to deeply increase
their research activities in materials over the next few years. Until now
there has been no specific action in material science and technology
between the EU and the BRAU countries and hence EULASUR will be the
first action of this kind and will establish the basis for joint participation
of partners from EU and BRAU in the future Calls of the NMP Work
Programme. In the global framework, the European member states wish
to participate with BRAU in certain research areas having common
objectives in science and technology as a privileged partner and
cooperate with them for the augmentation of the critical mass of
academic and industrial researchers as it is being done with other geostrategic areas (China, India, Korea, etc).
The General Objectives of the EULASUR project are to:
- Gain first hand knowledge of the state-of-the-art in specific areas of
materials research that are of interest to both the EU and BRAU and
establish a research agenda based on the pre-selected scientific topics
of interest and any others to be selected during the project.
- Create a cooperation platform for strategic partnerships among
scientists, scientific managers, policy makers, technology transfer and
industrial experts from the EU and BRAU – to promote integration,
increase research excellence and achieve critical mass.
- Establish a solid basis for research centres and industries from the EU
and BRAU countries to submit high quality proposals for joint research
under future Calls with Theme 4 {Materials} of the NMP Work
Programme and the INCO Programme.
And the Specific Objectives are to:
• Organize workshops and summer schools in BRAU and Europe in collaboration
with local organizations and companies based on high level conference speakers
from EU and LA. The purposes are to Promote Interactions (WP1) and exchange
research results as the foundation for identifying robust state-of-the-art topics for
future dialogue.
• Involve researchers from relevant EU Networks of Excellence, representatives of
science and technology policy from EU and BRAU countries and from the regional
and local governments in the identification of research themes and policies for
joint research.
• Stimulate research exchanges (WP2) and enable research groups in the EU and
BRAU to cooperate actively in the identification of joint lines of research.
• Establish a permanent dialogue amongst the partners across different levels of
responsibilities, to support the definition of the research priorities and the
development of innovation policies of the EU and BRAU, in the field of the selected
topics in Materials and Nanomaterials.
• Encourage the common use of existing research resources and access to the Large
Infrastructures for research exchanges and training.
• Promote the creation of new models and structures for collaboration between the
diverse actors of science, technology and innovation in BRAU and the EU. Identify
best practice amongst the partners in the selected research fields and define
strategies to transfer this know-how to other interested laboratories in EULASUR.
• Disseminate the research priorities, road maps and collaborative models developed
by EULASUR to the key stakeholders, decision makers and influencing agencies
impacting future S&T collaborative policies, work programmes and funding
mechanisms in the EU and BRAU.
• Encourage the creation of high technology start-up or spin-off companies and of
“Economic Interest Groups” between public centres and industrial companies for
cooperative research.
• Encourage the participation of the research groups and companies from BRAU and
the EU to participate in the submission of future proposals in theme 4 (NMP) of the
VII Framework Program and the INCO Program.
Overall Materials Scheme
The initial research themes of EULASUR are specifically targeting areas of
benefit to society such as:
• Biomedical Applications – specifically the development of multifunctional
hybrid magnetic nanoparticles for drug delivery and MRI applications; new
ceramic/ hybrid combinations for diagnostic kits and single use sensors.
• Food and Environmental Applications: - sensors with molecular recognition
properties, sensors for pollutant gases and metallicions.
• Information technology and telecommunications: - materials for active
filters and passive electronics.
Block A-1: Synthesis and Preparation Methods
Preparation
Including
Synthesis and production of
organic and inorganic
nanomaterials
o Polymer chemistry
CSIC, CNRS, UPMC, UdelaR,
o Nanochemistry and complex
CONICET, CNEA , CSIC, UAB,
systems
UFMG
o Soft routes for preparation sols and
gels of metal oxides
o Preparation of Macrocycles
UFMG, CNEA
Photochemistry
Pilot plant and industrial
processes of materials
developed at the lab- scale
Type of materials
VN
Including
Hybrids materials
Organic and inorganic meso
and nanoparticles
Composites and Biomaterials
Partners Expertise
Partners
CSIC, UPMC
o Oxides, nitrides
o Solid state ionic materials
o Aerogels
o Pigments
o TiO2 sols
CSIC, CNRS, UdelaR,
CONICET, CNEA
IMPERIAL
Block A-2: Materials Properties and Applications
Activity Sectors
Materials Properties and
applications
Partners Expertise
Materials for Energy
Superconductors Fuel-Cells
Materials
CSIC, CNRS, CNEA,
IMPERIAL, CONICET
Materials for Electronics
Magnetic Materials Spintronic
Materials Ferroelectric Materials
Semiconductors Optical and
Photonic Materials
CSIC, CNRS, CNEA, VN,
CONICET, UFMG
Materials for Special
Chemistry Applications
Porous Materials Advanced
Ceramic Materials Advanced
Composite Materials
CSIC, CNRS, UPMC,
IMPERIAL, CONICET
Materials for Biomedical
Applications
Bio-Sensors Bio-mimetic
Materials Bio-controlled
Materials
IMPERIAL, CSIC, CONICET
Block B-1: Advanced Characterization
Specially focused on X ray Diffraction, Neutrons and Synchrotron Radiation:
(CSIC, DESY, CNRS, UNICAMP, UAB). Research facilities that could be
available for EULASUR partners, beside DESY facilities, are: High-Energy X-ray
Microbeam Station at the ESRF and others in Grenoble, and a combined Xray/neutron reflectometer at the new neutron reactor FRM-II in Garching,
Synchrotron at Campinas (Brazil), and Synchrotron ALBA (UAB) from 2009.
EULASUR will explore the setting-up of new ways of collaborations in the use
of these Large Facilities.
Block B–2: Simulation
Specially focused on first-principles simulation of nanomaterials: UNICAMP,
CSIC and CNEA. These groups are developers of the first-principles code
SIESTA (http://www.uam.es/siesta), used to address new physical
phenomena that may fall beyond the scope of the conventional, commonly
used ab initio tools. Types of materials studied: nanotubes, fullerenes,
multilayer thin films and others.
Others
Others
Scheme of key technologies for nanomaterials and nanosystems
WP leaders and co-leaders:
WP1: Prof. Rasmussen, CBS (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) and Prof. Balseiro, CNEA (Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Argentina)
WP2: Prof. Rodrigues, UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Dr. Sánchez, UPMC (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
WP3: Prof. Briansó, UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Prof. Bacarini, UNLu (Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina)
WP4: Prof. Miravitlles, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and Prof. Mombrú, UdelaR (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
WP5: Prof. Miravitlles, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) and Prof. Bacarini, UNLu (Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina)
The costs and effort by Work Package are shown in the table below:
The costs and effort by Work Package are shown in the table below:
WP
Person
Months
Total Costs with
indirect costs
Summer Schools and Workshops
22,5
409.756
WP2 Exchanges
Travel and Accommodation
17,0
147.136
WP3 Opportunities
Personnel and industry days
17,3
124.241
WP4 Dissemination
Annual conferences, high level
meetings
23,5
196.281
14,5
122.420
94,8
999.835
WP1
Title
Key Cost Items
Promoting
Interactions
WP5 Management
Totals
The EULASUR Advisory Board (EAB)
The EULASUR Advisory Board will consist of eight permanent members but other
members may be co-opted from time to time. The eight permanent members will be:
From Europe:
• Britta Thomsem, Vice-President of the Committee on Industry, Research and
Energy of the European Parliament
• Mª Carmen Andrade, Director General for Technology Policy of the Ministry of
Education and Science in Spain
• Philippe Ghosez, of the University of Liège, Belgium
• Hartmut Fuess, of the Techische Universität Darmstadt
From Latin-America:
• Oscar Galante, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation, Argentina
• Eduardo Baumgratz Viotti, Senate Legislative Consultant, Brasil
• Roberto Fernandez Prini, President of the FAN (Fundación Argentina de
Nanotecnología)
• Alberto Nieto, Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química – UDELAR, Uruguay
Scientific experts from BRAU and experts from Industry in EU and/or LA may be coopted to the EAB.
EULASUR Executive Committee (EEC)
The Co-ordinator (CSIC), Vice – Coordinator (UNLu) and the WP Main Leaders
(CBS, UFMG and UAB) will form the EULASUR Executive Committee. The EEC
will be the main body responsible for the day to day operation of consortium,
the overall achievement of the actions foreseen in the Description of Work, the
implementation of the decisions of the EGC and the reporting and financial
control of the project.
The EEC will be assisted by the Task Leaders in each Work Package and by the
permanent staffs of the main co-ordinating partners CSIC (IMCAB) for Europe
and UNLu for Latin America.
The EEC will meet at six monthly intervals – mid way between the EGC
meetings to give an overall meeting cycle of one meeting approximately every
six months. Wherever possible to minimise travel costs and increase time
efficiency, meetings will be scheduled adjacent to other EULASUR events (e.g.
Summer Schools and workshops).
Co-ordination
The CSIC (Spanish Research Organisation) will act as the Co-ordinator of
EULASUR and this will be implemented via the Institute of Science of
Materials (ICMAB) in Barcelona. Professor Carles Miravitlles, until recently
the Director of the ICMAB and a person with a long track record of
successful participation in national and international collaborative research
projects – will act as the Co-ordinator of EULASUR. President of the Spanish
Crystallographic Committee, Vice-Secretary of Academy of Sciences and
Arts of Barcelona, Spain, Member of the European Academy. More than
300 scientific papers published in SCI journals.
Professor H.A. Bacarini of UNLu Argentina will act as the Vice-Coordinator
with a focus on integration of the actions in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay
with those of the European partners.
Management Structure Diagram