Nanoforum - Nanotech Regulatory Document Archive

12.2. National programmes and projects
In Romania co-ordinated activities in nanotechnologies started in February 2000.
Funding from national sources for multidisciplinary projects in the “nano” field were
provided starting late “spring 2000. The nano-activities started with the
MICRONANOTECH network at The National Institute for Research and Development in
Microtechnologies (IMT) in Bucharest.
Today, there are six research networks in the micro-nano domain; four of them
registered as “nano” networks in the database of the European Commission. The
networks started their activities in 2001; four of them are financing multidisciplinary
training. The other two are distributed virtual centres of excellence, co-ordinated by IMT
(Ref:1st NanoForum Workshop: Nanomaterials and Applications).
After a national call for proposals in 2001, 108 collaborative projects, 3 single
beneficiary projects and 7 priority projects have been selected. Of the 134 partners, 49%
are research organisations, 13% large companies and 38% SMEs.
There is currently one national research programme in nanotechnology, called
MATNANTECH (New Materials, Micro and Nanotechnologies) that provides funding for
both research and infrastructure projects. It started in 2001 and has a total budget of
6.53 Million Euros. MATNANTECH consists of 10 programmes
MATNANTECH Programmes
Programme
Percentage of
budget (%)
1 Composite materials 15
2 Intelligent materials 5
3 Biosubstances and biomaterials 5
4 Advanced materials with electrical, optical, magnetic and
10
thermomechanical properties
5 Materials for process engineering, chemical and
10
environmental applications
6 Powder synthesis and optoelectronics 10
7 Micro and nanoelectronics and optoelectronics 15
8 Micro and nanotechnologies for interfaces, transducers and 10
microsystems
9 Nanostructured materials, micro and nanostructures 10
10 Development of facilities and R&D and innovation services
in the field new materials, micro and nanotechnologies
10
MATNANTECH funds several dedicated research networks including:
(Sources: Bazu & Dascalu, 2003, and http://www.imt.ro/MNT/V2N23/ Page_4.pdf)
175