Project acronym: MNT ERA-Net

Coordination: FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency Ltd., Austria

Project partners:

IWT, Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, Belgium DGTRE, MRW Ministère de la Region wallone, Belgium CSNMT, Czech Society for New Materials and Technologies, Czech Republic TEKES, National Technology Agency of Finland, Finland CR Midi-Pyrénées, France VDI/VDE-IT, Innovation + Technik GmbH, Germany FZK-PFT, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany Enterprise Ireland, CTO – Nanotechnology, Ireland RCN, The Research Council of Norway, Norway MSRIT/IET, Institute of Electron Technology, Poland POLITEHNICA, University of Bucharest, Romania SAS, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia MHEST, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia Basque Government, ITT Department, Spain MEC, Spanish Council for Research, Spain VINNOVA, Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems, Sweden TEMAS AG, Switzerland SenterNovem, The Netherlands Invest Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland EPSRC, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom

ICT Technological Area: 1.5. Embedded Systems and Real Time Systems, 1.8. Microengineering, 1.9. Micromachining, 5. Telecommunications

Sectors of ICT Implementation: 1. Industrial Equipment and Machinery, 2. Electronics, Information & Communications, 3. Chemicals, Materials and related Equipments, 4. Energy, 6. Medical / Health related

Project duration: 48 months

Project start: 01/01/2004

EC funding: 3.1 M EUR

Project aim:
The MNT ERA-NET will coordinate the currently fragmented research programmes and exchange good practice on aspects of programme design and management. The biggest impact is expected to come from promoting co-operation between national programmes. This could involve avoidance of duplicated effort and discouragement for spending on small programmes where co-operation at European level would be more cost-effective. The ERA-NET may have an additional role to play in the development of industrial standards for MNT – especially of the design of interfaces between micro-components.

Contacts and Website:
http://www.mnt-era.net
roland.brandenburg@ffg.at

FFG - Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Dr. Roland Brandenburg
1220 Vienna, Donau-City-Strasse 1, Austria
Phone: +43 5 7755 - 5090
Fax: +43 5 7755 - 94902