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Nano2Life

European Network of Excellence


Participants and consortium

ƒ 23 Founding partners
• Sign the consortium agreement
• Receive EC money
• Commit their human & scientific resources
ƒ 31 Associate members
• 3 Associate Candidate Countries
• 21 companies
• 3 international centres
• Participate to the activities
• Don’t receive money
• Don’t participate to the management

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23 partners from 12 countries

Oeresund (2)
Bioanalytik-Münster (3)
NanoBioNet Saarland (5)
NanoBio Grenoble (3)
PCB Barcelona (1)

Newcastle Univ.
NMRC Cork
Uni Twente
EPFL Lausanne
FSRM Neuchâtel
JRC Ispra
Demokritos Athens
FORTH Heraklion
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Tel Aviv Univ.
Disciplines in partnership

80
Number of scientists
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Biology
Health
Physics-
Technology
Chemistry

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Complementary expertise

Basic Applied Proto Product/


End users
research Research typing Services

Lund, Münster, Saarland, Kaiserslautern


Mainz, Newcastle, Tel-Aviv

CEA, CNRS, INSERM, MIC, Centech,


Mesa+, Demokritos, FORTH, PCB, EPFL, JRC

Fraunhofer, Centech, NMRC, FSRM

21 companies

3 Hospitals
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Joint Programme of Activity

ƒ 3 core activities
• Incubation of joint research projects
• Shared resources
• Education & training
ƒ 2 horizontal activities
• Ethics
• Foresight
ƒ 4 support instruments
• Industrial cooperation
• IPR & knowledge management
• Gender
• Communication & dissemination
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3 core activities
ƒ Incubation of joint research projects
• Brainstorming meetings: Autrans, Stresa…
• Nursing and financial support to initial steps
of mini-projects

ƒ Shared resources
• Mapping of existing facilities,
• Financial support for cross access to resources

ƒ Education & training


• Mapping of existing teaching programmes
• MSc, PhD, technical training
• Nanobiotech curriculum for PhD and tech
training
• Preparation of e-learning in nanobiotech

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2 horizontal activities

ƒ Ethics
• Ethics Board
• Education of scientists and society,
• Advising partners and scientists

ƒ Foresight
• Roadmap in nanobiotech
• Strategic plan towards EIN

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4 support instruments

ƒ Industrial cooperation
• Joint projects, N2L business days

ƒ IPR & Knowledge management


• MTA, NDA templates, general rules,
education

ƒ Gender
• Mentor programme

ƒ Communication & dissemination


• Web site, events, tech reports, newsletter

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Resources available by partners

ƒ The existing nanobiotech programmes of


N2L partners represent:
• 870 scientists
• 87.27 M€/year
• Leading world known scientists

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