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  			”Nano” topics for industry/SMEs
                   for calls for proposals in FP7 in 2007
IP = Large scale integrated project (20 – 30 partners)
STREP = Small or medium-scale project, specific targeted research (5 – 10 partners)
SME – project = project led by SME with R&D capacities (5 – 10 partners)
                                           
                                     W ha t ?
                                                                      Ho w ?       W he n ?
        Topic                     Expected impact
  (Theme 3-ICT):            New electronics applications in:          IP            April 2007
                         •
  Next generation           communications, health,                   STREP
  nanoelectronics           environment, transport, security
  components and
  electronics
  integration
  (Theme 3-ICT):            Micro/nano/biotechnologies’               IP            Sept / Oct
                         •
  Micro/nanosyste           convergence for specific                  STREP           2007
  ms                        applications: environmental
                            monitoring, agriculture and food
                            quality mngm, safety, security,
                            biomedical and lifestyle
                            BioMEMS, biosensors, lab-on-chip
                         •
                            microsystems, autonomous
                            implants, bio-robots
  (Theme 3-ICT):            New concepts for switches or              IP            April 2007
                         •
  Nanoscale ICT             memory cells using nanostructures         STREP
  devices and               New concepts for local and chip-level                     
  systems                   interconnects

                            Radically new functionalities by the
                            integration of blocks from a few nm
                            down to the atomic scale (NEMS)
                            Proof of concept at lab level to
                            prepare future applied RTD

  (Theme 4-NMP):            Nanostructures which induce specific      STREP         April 2007
                         •
  Nanoscale                 behaviour on contact with biological
  mechanisms of             systems
  bio/non-bio               Innovation in industry and new
  interactions              products in: marine industry,
                            construction, energy production,
                            medical and hygiene applications,
                            textiles
                            Medium-long term innovation in
                            industrial processes: food industry or
                            waste mngm
  (Theme 4-NMP):            Innovation in industrial processes:       STREP         April 2007
                         •
  Self-assembling           chemistry, optics, electronics
  and self-                 Added-value and/or lower production
  organisation              costs

  (Theme 4-NMP):            Scale-up nano/lab processes to            IP            April 2007
  Pilot lines to            industrial application (Transfer of
  study, develop            knowledge)
  and up-scale              Economic aspects !!
  nanotechnology-
  based processes
  from laboratory