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NFFA-Europe

A network of European first level installations and infrastructures for nanoscale investigations.

A platform to carry out cutting-edge research in nanoscience

The project NFFA-Europe wants to create a network of the most important European infrastructures for nanomaterials research. The goal is to integrate the most cutting-edge European laboratories and infrastructures, giving them a great number of researchers the ability to develop research projects with a strong innovative impact. The project wants to create synergies to offer the best installations to research the properties of materials at nanoscale. 

Participants

The project brings together more than 20 European institutions. Synchrotrons, research centres, and universities from Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Austria, Slovenia and Spain take part in the project.

Activities

NFFA-Europe wants to integrate all the potential and capacities in nanoscience to implement the first global infrastructure in nanoscience.

Thus, thanks to the project, researchers from all over the European regions will be able to access the needed infrastructures to develop their nanotechnological project in all their stages and the most specific methods, which range from the synthesis of nanomaterials through nanocharacterization to the development of theoretical models and numerical simulations with supercomputers.

It is estimated that along the project, over 1000 users will benefit from the installations, and 350 research projects will be developed.

A main goal of the project is to bring this potential to the private sector; this is why NFFA-Europe will promote activities to get to know these installations to businesses and put them within reach to be used for innovation and development of new products and dispositives thanks to nanotechnology.

The role of the UAB Research Park

In Catalonia, five institutions are taking part in the project; the UAB Research Park is involved as the umbrella for the National Centre of Microelectronics (CNM CSIC), the Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB CSIC), and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Period

Start date: September 2015 

End date: September 2019

Funding

The project has been funded with 10 million euros by the European call H2020-INFRAIA-2014/2015.

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