Nanoforum - Nanotech Regulatory Document Archive

national research programmes. Nevertheless Nanotechnology is part of other
priorities:
• In Hungary there are five national research and development programs, on
improving the quality of life; information and communication technologies;
environmental and materials research; research on agribusiness and
biotechnology; and research on national heritage and contemporary social
challenges. Nanotechnology, in particular manufacturing and analysis of
materials on the molecular level, is part of program 3 on environmental and
materials research. Program 2 on ICT includes application of molecular level
information technologies.
• Nanoscience or nanotechnology is not explicitly mentioned in the national
research programme of Slovenia. Nevertheless, there is one national
research programme related to nanotechnology on “Physics of surfaces,
modulated structures and nanostructures”. Since 1996, there have also
been 13 projects related to nanotechnology, including 3 which are still
ongoing on Transition metals dichalcogenide nanostructures; on a
photoelectrochromic system and a photovoltaic self-charging battery; and on
sol-gel processing and characterisation of nanomaterials.
Other countries have installed national nuclei for Nanotechnology:
• The IMT research institute in Bucarest is the nucleus for the
nanotechnology networks and programmes in Romania. It also acts as a
“bridgehead” to integrate Romanian nanotechnology research into the
European Research Area ERA.
• The Slovakian Academy of Sciences has recently installed the NanoSMART
Centre of Excellence in nanomaterials. Around 60 researchers from the
SAS institutes on Materials Research, Inorganic Chemistry, Experimental
Physics, Geotechnics, Materials and Machine Mechanics, Physics, and
Electrical Engineering collaborate in it. Research topics are mainly
dedicated to ceramic nanocomposites and metallic materials, and
mechanical, magnetic, superconducting, semiconducting, electric properties
and water treatment
• In Bulgaria, there is a national research program to cover Nanotechnology.
The researchers, working in the field of nanotechnology, organised a network,
which became the basis of the National Centre on Nanotechnology (NCNT)
established in 1999 under the auspices of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences. The NCNT organised 5 workshops on nanotechnology. The
research in the field of nanotechnology is very wide. The thematic groups
present of this community are: Clusters, nanoparticles, complexes and
composites; Ultra thin films and multilayer nanosystems; Submicron regions
and inhomogenities in bulk materials; Molecular and atomic design;
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