Nano-/Microsystems and High-Tech Materials for Industrial Transformation
Context
The Nano-/Microsystems and High-Tech Materials for Industrial Transformation S3 Partnership aims to address the challenge of bringing nano-enabled products from prototype to production by developing joint demonstration cases that promote collaboration and the development of new value chains linking regional innovation ecosystems.
The partnership includes three demo cases covering various nanotechnological fields with applications in multiple industrial sectors, including advanced materials, medical devices, clean technology, food safety, and automotive. The first demo case simplifies the development of nano-enabled bio-sensor applications through lab-on-chip technology platform modules. The second demo case deploys MEMS technology for integrating analytical functional nanomaterials in miniaturized sensing systems and aims to extend its use to many industrial and consumer products. The third demo case demo case integrates flexible micro/nano electronics within composite parts during manufacturing by digital printing and innovative mounting approaches and creates a network of manufacturers for new product fabrication.
Year established: 2015
Regions (lead and partner)
- Leading regions: Navarra (ES), North Rhine-Westphalia (DE)
- Partner region(s): Baden-Württemberg (DE), Flanders (BE), Emilia Romagna (IT), East Netherlands (NL), Wallonia (BE)
Mission
The mission is to facilitate cross-border cooperation among businesses, academia, and research institutions to develop innovative nano-enabled products and services with high TRL. This will be achieved by connecting and further developing open and business-driven facilities for pilot production of nano-enabled materials, systems, and products. By promoting the development of new value chains that integrate nanotechnology into various industrial sectors, the pilot aims to address the challenges of bringing these new products and services to the market and accelerate the industrial modernisation of the European Union.
Objectives
The key objective is to enhance the level of innovativeness and competitiveness of the regions by boosting knowledge, skills and capacities for micro- and nano-enabled applications as well as high-tech materials. The pilot will admit and support demo-case collaborations and projects in this field. Further objectives are:
- To inspire and encourage policy makers to design and implement innovation strategies and operational programmes able to support inter-regional collaborations in the field of micro and nanotechnology-enabled products.
- To develop inter-regional platform of collaborative high TRL (> 6) demonstration cases in the field of micro and nano-enabled products.
- To accelerate the adoption of nanotechnologies to boost the innovation capacity of European companies in several fundamental sectors and value chains.
- To create synergies with the other S3 Partnerships as well as with European networks and associations.
Main activities
The pilot has three pillars of organization and action:
- The pilot co-leaders: They prepare pilot wide events and networking opportunities, reaching out and informing new interested regions
- The demo case leaders: They have a high technological competency and are leading topic focused group of stakeholders active in their demo case. The demo cases act as a permanent connection point for project-based cooperation
- The pilot members: They form the group of stakeholders, bringing in further interested parties, new ideas and activities
Organisations involved
Belgium
- IMEC – Flanders (BE)
- University de Liége (BE)
Germany
- Cluster NanoMicroMaterialsPhotonic.NRW (DE)
- Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V. (DE)
Italy
- ART-ER (IT)
- CNR-IMM (IT)
The Netherlands
- Oost (NL)
Spain
- NAITEC – Navarra (ES)
Shared smart specialisation areas
Innovative materials; advanced manufacturing; KETs
Related projects
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Contact
- Matthias Grosch, Cluster NanoMicroMaterialsPhotonic.NRW, matthias.grosch@nmwp.de
- Javier Bravo, NAITEC, jbravo@naitec.es
Latest news and upcoming events
VANGUARD Nano-Pilot Pitching Sessions: “Structural Health Monitoring”, see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLz_Wcu53oqEbROEtb-BuXY9XOsDewzHQ4