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Netherlands), the National Institute for the Study of Information
and Automation (France).
The React consortium, founded and led by Motorola Israel, is
seeking to manufacture an aid for safe and smart driving, using a
sensor suite installed inside the vehicle. The sensors will monitor
weather conditions and road infrastructure, and broadcast the
information to a command and control center. This data will be
analyzed in real time by a unique decision making model, and
used to broadcast warnings and instructions to drivers, authorities
and road security and enforcement services. By using vehicles
as mobile sensors, the system can provide up-to-the-second
information on all traffic routes.
Holon Institute of Technology and
Wisair: Fiber optics communications
Investment: 3.6 Million Euro
Other Partners: the Valencia Technological University, the Centre
for Photonics (UK), Tes Electronics, Thales.
The UROOF project comprises a consortium investigating the
technological feasibility for delivering ultra-wideband radio
signals through fiber-optic infrastructures. Other partners in the
consortium are development institutes.
Palbam: Utilizing magnesium
technologies for aerospace by IAI and Alubin
Investment: 3.4 Million Euro
Other Partners: IAI, Airbus, EADS, Hanover University and
others.
Airbus leads the MAGFORMING consortium, coordinated by
the Israeli Palbam. The project advances magnesium processing
methods for the aerospace industry, and focuses on developing
technologies to improve the use of magnesium to lower aircraft
weight, decrease fuel consumption for land vehicles and develop
new magnesium production and industrial design technologies.
Ben Gurion University: Deciphering the
Genetic Code
Investment: 3.1 Million Euro
Other Partners: University of Brussels, the Stockholm
Bioinformation Center, the Ontario Cancer Institute, ALMA
and others.
Decrypting the information coded in the gene sequence and its
application to the biological function of genes and proteins is a
key challenge in the post-genomic era. The GeneFun consortium
focuses on the computerized prediction of gene functionality, and
seeks to solve problems pertaining to data in genome data bases,
to develop data quality assessment methods, automatic sequence
analysis and use of the internet to decode sequences.
The Weizmann Institute and Evogene:
Engineering Plants
Investment: 3 Million Euro
Other Partners: The Czech Institute of Experimental Botany,
the French National Center for Scientific Research, Geneva
University and others.
Plants may be viewed as environmentally friendly, solar powered
factories, capable of manufacturing medicinal proteins. The
TAGIP consortium, guided by the Weizmann Institute, focuses
on integrating target genes in plants to induce them to produce
medicinal compounds. The project also addresses a range of issues
to make medicines more effective.
KLA Tencor Israel: New measuring
technologies for CMOS production
Investment: 2.9 Million Euro
Other Partners: AMD Germany, the Belgium University of
Micro-Electronics and others.
KLA leads the OCSLI consortium which promotes measuring
technologies for the production process of silicon chips, using
65 nanometer technologiesand beyond. The chip production
process involves the creation of multiple layers of material, which
requires accurate measurements to reduce the chip rejection rate.
The project was completed in October 2005 by developing new
solutions for a reliable measuring system.
Bar-Ilan University, Inksure and OSM-
DAN: Nanometals against forgery
Investment: 2.8 Million Euro
Other Partners: the Hebrew University, the Max Planck Institute,
POMETON (Italy), BASF (Germany) and more
Bar-Ilan University leads the SelectNano consortium, designed
to find new applications for nanometallic particles. The project is
based upon a new process called Sonoelectrochemistry, developed
in Bar-Ilan, which allows the production of metallic particles at a
nanometric scale. These particles can be used as anti-counterfeiting
measures by adding them to the ink used in printing coding labels
and as pigment and coatings additives and in the production of
conductive materials. The particles' use will be tested by inclusion
in paints and inks used for authentication purposes.
The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv
University: DNA-Based Nanoelectronics
Investment: 2.3 Million Euro
Other Partners: Regensburg University, Madrid University, the
Lausanne School of Technology and others.
The DNA-NANODEVICES group includes Europe's leading
scientific institutes in the field of nanoelectronics. The group is
seeking to develop systems for production of extremely small DNA
- based nano devices. The aim is to investigate different aspects
of this future technology, including a theoretical understanding
of aspects of energy; developing control technologies for the
new components and classification. The main goal is to develop
a prototype electronic component based upon a single DNA
molecule.
The Volcani Institute, Analyst Research
Laboratories and OSM-DAN:
Insight into fertility
Investment: 2.2 Million Euro
Other Key Partners: the Wessex Institute of Technology, the
MRC Institute of Health and the Environment (UK), the National
Research Institute (France) and others.
In recent years, much interest has been focused on the general
decrease in fertility. Experiments demonstrate that many chemicals