past events

SPIE Europe Optical Systems Design 2008. Glasgow, UK. September 02 - 05, 2008
Nanodiagnostics - Glasgow, UK; Sep 5th, 2008 - A one-day course, delivered in collaboration with Strathclyde University, which will review new developments in nanotechnology as applied to IVDs, including lab-on-a-chip devices, DNA chips, nanoarrays, etc.

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2008 MNBC. Vancouver, WA. September 08 - 10, 2008
Summer School 'Nanomagnetism and Spintronics'. Prague, Czech Republic. September 08 - 17, 2008
Nano Risk Analysis: Advancing the Science for Nanomaterial Risk Management . Washington DC. September 10 - 11, 2008
Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy . Vancouver, BC, Canada. September 10 - 12, 2008
NanoEurope. St. Gallen, Switzerland. September 14 - 19, 2008
MNE 2008; Sep 15th - Sep 18th, 2008; Athens, Greece
Micro-and Nano-Engineering (MNE) is an international conference on micro- and nano- fabrication and manufacturing using lithography and other nano-patterning related approaches.

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Functional Nanostructures. Bad Honnef, Germany. September 16 - 18, 2008
Nanoforum 2008, Milan, Italy, 17 and 18 September.
The plenary sessions and tutorials covering a wide range of topics such as nanotechnologies for energy and the environment, nanomedicine, automotive and aerospace will be held in English or Italian. In addition, a number of companies and organisations involved in nanotechnologies will present themselves in the framework of an exhibition. Now in its fourth year, the Nanoforum continues to promote new possibilities offered by nanotechnologies and to encourage the process of technological transfer from the academic world to the entrepreneurial one. The event is addressed at entrepreneurs, managers in the research, development, production, promotion and marketing departments, researchers, specialists and university graduates interested in nanotechnologies. CORDIS will participate in the forum as a media partner. For further information, please visit: http://www.nanoforum.it/en/
1st International Conference on Nano Technology. Albany, NY. September 17 - 19, 2008
SPIE Photomask. Monterey, CA. September 17 - 21, 2008
ESF-UB Conference on Nanomedicine; Sep 19th - Sep 24th, 2008 Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain
The 2008 Nanomedicine Conference is the natural evolution of that road bringing together a diversified public in order to integrate converging science in the biomedical applications using nanotechnology.

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EU funded ETHICSCHOOL's Summerschool on Ethics of Converging Technologies. Darmstadt, Germany. September 21 - 26, 2008
5th International Symposium on Immersion Lithography Extensions. The Hague, Netherlands. September 22 - 25, 2008
Nanotech Northern Europe 2008; Sep 23rd - Sep 25th, 2008; Copenhagen, Denmark
Nanotech Northern Europe 2008 combines an international nanotechnology conference, exhibition and tech transfer event in an exciting new setting in Copenhagen, Denmark

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Micronora 2008. BesanŤon, France. September 23 - 26, 2008
2008 NanoMedicine Summit. Cleveland, OH. September 25 - 26, 2008
2008 International Symposium on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography. Lake Tahoe, CA. September 28 - October 02, 2008
IASTED International Conference on Nanotechnology and Applications "NANA 2008". Crete, Greece. September 29 - October 01, 2008
Single Charge Effects in Semiconductor Nanostructures. Bad Honnef, Germany. September 29 - October 01, 2008

iNOW International Nano-Optoelectronic Workshop. Lake Saiko, Japan. August 02 - 15, 2008
Microscopy & Microanalysis 2008 Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM. August 03 - 08, 2008
SPIE Optics + Photonics 2008. San Diego, CA.August 10 - 14, 2008
Oakland University's 2008 Nanoscale Science and Engineering Conference. Rochester, MI. August 18 - 19, 2008
The 4th International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation. Goslar, Germany. August 18 - 22, 2008
The 21st Congress of the International Union of Crystallography. Osaka,Japan. August 23 - 31, 2008
EU funded ETHICSCHOOL's Summerschool on Ethics of Nanotechnology. Twente, Netherlands. August 24 - 29, 2008
SPIE Optics + Photonics. San Diego, CA. August 26 - 30, 2008
NanoScience + Engineering 2007. San Diego, CA. August 26 - 30, 2008
COMS2008 - Commercialization of Micro and Nano Systems Conference. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. August 31 - September 04, 2008
e-Beam Based Tools for Device/Materials Characterization (FIB-TEM). Haifa, Israel. August 31 - September 11, 2008

International conference on nanobiotechnologies, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 16 - 18 June2008.
The event is to set the discussion between biologists, physicists, computer scientists and engineers and bridge the gap between materials science and life science. It will bring together leading scientists, representatives of industry, public research and governmental bodies. In addition to workshops and panel discussions, a special session will be devoted to the responsible development of nanobiotechnology. The session is intended to provide new possibilities for international cooperation between European and Russian scientists, in particular within the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). For further information, please visit: http://www.spbcas.ru/nanobio/Nanobio08/scope.html
Nano2Life Scientific Meeting 2008 - Registration Deadline 10th May!
About 120 researchers from the network coming from 12 EU Member States or Associated Countries are expected to attended Nano2Life scientific meeting held at Heraklion, Crete, between 25–27 June. The meeting takes place in the Moevenpick Resort & Thalasso Crete.

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3rd Nano2Life Summer School in Athens. The 3rd Nano2Life Summer School "Methods in Micro-Nano-technology and Nano-biotechnology”, will take place in Demokritos, Athens, Greece, June 30- July 10, 2008, right after the Scientific Meeting of Nano2Life in Crete, Greece.

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New Videowebsite - Research School Lund. The recordings made during the Research School in Lund are available on the new Videowebsite of Nano2Life.

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MINOS Road Show: The MINOS-EURONET project is organizing the MINOS Roadshow in Europe, in May 2008, in order to establish contacts between Eastern organizations (from new member states) and outstanding micro- and nanotechnology centres in Western Europe. The rationale of the Roadshow is explained here. The full programme of the Roadshow is now available here.
"minaSYS interCOOP 2008", Bratislava, Slovakia, 26 May 2008 [...] Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of EE & IT and BIC Bratislava in co-operation with the FFG Vienna in the frame of the “Enterprise Europe Network” initiative and the “MINOS-EURONET” and “REACT” projects organise: minaSYS interCOOP 2008, an International co-operation event in the field of micro-, nano-, opto-electronics & technology, embedded systems, smart systems and RFID
Call 4: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-2:
Identifier: FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2008-2
Publication Date: 06 May 2008
Budget: € 20 000 000
Deadline: 11 September 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
OJ Reference: OJ C111 of 06 May 2008
Specific Programme: Capacities
Theme: Research Infrastructures
Additional Information: Please note that the indicated budget is foreseen only for the topic INFRA-2008-1.2.2: Scientific Data Infrastructure. A definitive budget for the topic INFRA-2008-1.2.1: GÉANT will be published after adoption of the 2009 work programme. The indicative GÉANT budget equals 93 000 000.

Identifier: FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 - Marie Curie Initial Training Networks
Publication Date: 04 April 2008
Budget: € 185 000 000
Deadline: 02 September 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
OJ Reference: OJ C085 of 04 April 2008
Specific Programme: People
Theme: PEOPLE
Additional Information: An amount from the 2009 budget is expected to be added to this call
FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-3
Identifier: FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2008-3
Publication Date: 21 April 2008
Budget: € 4 780 000
Deadline: 24 July 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
OJ Reference: OJ C100 of 22 April 2008
Specific Programme: Capacities
Theme: Science in Society

Identifier: FP7-NMP-2008-SME-2
Publication date: 30 November 2007
Budget: € 4 855 000
Deadline(s): 06 March 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) 23 September 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) -
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme: [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation: see eligibility criteria in the Work Programme

Identifier: FP7-NMP-2008-LARGE-2
Publication date: 30 November 2007
Budget: € 60 000 000
Deadline(s): 06 March 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) 23 September 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) - (for Stage 2 (only proposals retained at stage 1)
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme: [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation: see eligibility criteria in the Work Programme

Identifier: FP7-NMP-2008-SMALL-2
Publication date: 30 November 2007
Budget: € 100 993 000
Deadline(s): 06 March 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) 02 September 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) -
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme: [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation: see eligibility criteria in the Work Programme

Joint Energy NMP Call
Identifier: FP7-ENERGY-NMP-2008-1
Publication date: 30 November 2007Budget: € 25 000 000
Deadline(s): 26 February 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) 29 May 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) - Stage 2 (only for proposals retained at stage 1)
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme(s): [Energy] [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation:
see eligibility criteria in the work programmes
Additional Information:
The deadline foreseen for the 29 May 2008 at 17:00:00, is an indicative closure date, only for proposals retained at stage 1 and invited to submit the complete proposal.

"WomenInNano" Winter School. Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. February 07 - 09, 2008
Fourth International Precision Assembly Seminar IPAS'2008. Chamonix, France. February 10 - 13, 2008
The Second International Conference on Quantum, Nano, and Micro Technologies (ICQNM 2008). Sainte Luce, Martinique. February 10 - 15, 2008
5th Taiwan/U.S. Air Force Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Workshop. Hui-Sun, Taiwan. February 11 - 12, 2008
Knowledge Based Industries & Nanotechnology Conference. Doha, Quatar. February 11 - 12, 2008
Nanogovernance 2008. Washington, DC. February 12, 2008
RF MEMS and NEMS. Lausanne, Switzerland. February 12, 2008
Accelerating Innovation in Health and Personal Care Technologies Workshop. Heslington, UK. February 12, 2008
Practical Vacuum and Semiconductor Processing. Birmingham, UK. February 13 - 14, 2008
BIZMATCH @ nano tech 2008. Tokyo, Japan. February 13 - 15, 2008
Nano Bio Expo 2008. Tokyo, Japan. February 13 - 15, 2008
Nano tech 2008. Tokyo, Japan. February 13 - 15, 2008
Nanowires and Nanotubes: From Controlled Synthesis to Functions. Bad Honnef, Germany. February 14 - 15, 2008
X. Annual Linz Winter Workshop. Linz, Austria. February 15 - 19, 2008
Interaction and Interference in Nanoscopic Transport. Dresden, Germany. February 18 - 22, 2008
CellCourse 2008. Saarbrźcken, Germany. February 20 - 29, 2008
Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Conference 2008. Cancun, Mexico. February 21 - 24, 2008
Internation Conference on Molecular/Nano-Photochemistry, Photocatalysis and Solar Energy Conversion Solar'08. Cairo, Egypt. February 24 - 28, 2008
SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium. San Jose, CA. February 24 - 29, 2008
Periodic Nanostructures for Photonics. Bad Honnef, Germany. February 27 - 29, 2008
International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology (ICONSAT-2008). Chennai, India. February 27 - 29, 2008
Karlsruher Lebensmittelsymposium - Nano4Food. Karlsruhe, Germany. February 28 - 29, 2008

Identifier: FP7-ENV-NMP-2008-2
Publication date: 30 November 2007
Budget: € 10 000 000
Deadline: 25 February 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme(s): [Environment (including Climate Change)] [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation:
see eligibility criteria in the work programmes
Identifier: FP7-NMP-2008-CSA-2
Publication date: 30 November 2007
Budget: € 15 000 000
Deadline: 24 April 2008 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
OJ Reference: OJ C288 of 30 November 2007
Specific Programme: [Cooperation]
Theme: [Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies]
Restrictions to Participation: see eligibility criteria in the Work Programme

International Conference on Nanomaterial Toxicology - ICONTOX-2008, 05 February - 07 February 2008, Lucknow, India. Contact: [email protected]
Organized by: Industrial Toxicology Research Centre and Indian Nanoscience Society
Nanowires and Nanotubes: From Controlled Synthesis to Functions, 14 February - 15 February 2008, Bad Honnef, Germany. Organized by: DFG
SPIE Advanced Lithography 2008, 24 February 2008 - 29 February 2008, San Jose, United States. Organized by: SPIE
Periodic Nanostructures for Photonics, 27 February - 29 February 2008, Bad Honnef, Germany. Organized by: DFG

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