Activity Report 2010 - CNRS

SCIENTIFIC REPORT
FURTHER READING
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Call for proposals
“Education and Scientific
Animation”
In addition to its own events, the
Foundation also supports actions that
promote exchanges in the Nanoscience
scientific community and contribute to
the national and international recognition
of the Grenoble network. They are
workshops, conferences, or training
courses for PhD students and postdoctoral
scientists, like summer schools.
The funding is attributed through a call
for proposals process. The Steering
Committee is in charge of the evaluation
of all the submitted projects and
agreement from the Board of the
submitted proposals (that must include a
tentative well-balanced budget).
Since 2009, the Call for training and
scientific animation proposals is
disconnected from the other calls.
The criteria for selection are:
relevance to nanoscience
strong relationship with scientific
activities developed in Grenoble
international visibility
Grenoble campus promotion
benefit for the Foundation
laboratories
and readability of the Foundation
action.
As for the selection process, an oral and
public presentation of every proposal is
given in front of the Working Group on
Education which then reports to the
Steering Committee. The latter analyses
the report and makes its propositions for
funding.
Actions that have been supported by the
Foundation are listed in tables of
Appendix 5 and 6.
Since 2007, the Foundation supports a
series of weekly seminars entitled
"Quantum Nano-electronics Seminar".
The Foundation has maintained its
support since then. The attendance is
growing, with an average of about 30
people, and consists of various scientists
from many different laboratories. The
support of the Foundation allows inviting
speakers from foreign countries (they are
listed in the Part 7 – section 3). In 2011,
thanks to the related topical group, a
similar series of seminars on
"Nanomagnetism and Spintronics" is to
be launched.
In 2010 and 2011, 5 international
conferences have been supported:
5 th International Conference on
Molecular Electronics, which is a major
conference in the field (more than 300
attendees over 5 days).
QFS2010, an international
symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids
organized in Grenoble with about 200
participants.
2011 Rencontres de Moriond on
"Quantum Mesoscopic Physics" organized
in the Alps by the French community,
with about 150 attendees.
INFOS2011, an international
conference on Microelectronic devices
fabrication and physics, organized in
2011 on Minatec campus.
EuroMBE 2011 an international
conference devoted to Molecular Beam
Epitaxy of semiconducting nanostructures
and epilayers, organized at l'Alpe d'Huez
by the CNRS-CEA joint team.
Since 2008, a very significant effort is
made to support the European School on
Nanosciences and Nanotechnology
(ESONN), created in 2004, offering young
researchers (graduate students and postdoctoral
scientists entering the field) a
thorough training in the field, based on 3
week-long program with an exact balance
lectures and laboratory trainings. Many
research groups of the network are
involved allowing the students to work on
very sophisticated experiments. The
support to ESONN has been maintained
in 2011, the funding being increased to
26.5 k€ helping to compensate the
decreasing support from the European
Community.
Fig. 3: ESONN 2010 students.
In 2010 and 2011, the total amount
dedicated to the support of actions of
education and scientific animation has
reached 51 and 60 k€ respectively. More
events have been supported, at different
levels. (see Appendix 6). Apart from
ESONN, three other summer schools
have received some funding from the
Foundation: Graphene International
School in 2010, MIGAS 2010 and 2011
and the European School on Magnetism
2011.
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