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