• « A unique open access to a pan-European distributed facility with the ERIC legal status »more
    • « Strategic access and improved standards in sample definition at Large Scale Facilities »more
    • « Common metrology and a widespread platform for atomic precision manufacturing »more
    • « Data Repository for making nanoscience outcome promptly available to society »more
    « An open access distributed facility with the legal status of a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), made up of 3 to 6 centers characterized by specific scientific embedding and local synergies with nearby Large Scale Facilities (LSFs) but providing a unique access portal so as to be an integrated laboratory environment for the development of advanced nanoscience with atomic precision fabrication and metrology. »close
    « Maximum exploitation of Large Scale Facilities (LSFs) by nano-oriented scientific communities by (a) providing a strategic access for Fine Analysis to a wider community of users and (b) raising the standards in sample preparation, definition and characterization for the most advanced fine analysis tools including nanobeams and ultra short pulses of X-ray and UV as well as neutron pulses. »close
    « A common metrology and a widespread technological platform for advanced nanofabrication, synthesis and characterization of nanostructures, available to all scientific and technological communities so as to (a) provide a push forward in the challenge of atomic precision manufacturing and (b) shift the scientific competition towards ideas and intellectual skills rather than among different technological and financial capabilities of research groups around Europe. »close
    « The first Nanoscience Repository of molecular data for functional and complex materials and protocols for synthesis and metrology of nanostructured systems so as to make the results of nanoscience centers more directly suitable for specific applications developed by technology districts as well as for next generation products manufactured by industries and SMEs. Full exploitation of emerging e-infrastructures to achieve high impact and capillarity in making nanoscience outcome promptly available to society. »close

    highlights

    Research Infrastructures: call 10 FP7- INFRASTRUCTURES - 2012
    LAST NEWS FROM THE PROGRAMME COMMITTE
    NFFA - 2011
    The NFFA summary booklet
    The NFFA Design Study has been accomplished and its conclusions are condensed in the booklet.
     
    The need for a NFFA research infrastructure has been analyzed. The layout of such an infrastructure has been defined in order to accomplish the mission of creating a truly integrated environment for performing research on nanosystems with state-of-the-art instrumentation and methods, and with the direct access to synchrotron, FEL and neutron based imaging, scattering and spectroscopies.
     
    The roadmap towards the implementation of the NFFA research infrastructure is based on the identification of all relevant sites where co-location of NFFA centres and Large Scale Facilities can be realized.
     
    A demonstrator phase is planned to start in 2012. We are therefore competing for an I3 FP7 proposal under the call INFRA-2012-1.1.21 that explicitly addresses the topic of nanoscience and fine analysis integration at European level. Work along this line is in progress and all relevant contributions are welcome and will be evaluated in order to provide European researchers in nanoscience a substantial open-access to most relevant laboratories in close connection with neutron and photon sources.
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    news

    FP7 CALL for infrastructures - July 2011 INFRA-2012-1.1.21
    Research infrastructures for integration of processing, analysis and characterisation of nano-scale materials and structures.
    European Commission - June 2011 Horizon 2020
    Mrs. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research and Innovation, has announced on 21 June 2011 the new name for the future EU funding programme for research and innovation: " Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation ". It will enter into force on 1 January 2014, after the end of FP7 on 31 Dec 2013.
    • Research area: INFRA-2007-2.1-01
    • Contract Type: Collaborative project
    • Project reference: 212348
    • Start Date: 2008-06-01
    • Duration: 24 months
    NFFA - Nanoscale Foundries and Fine Analysis is a project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme, under Capacities Specific Programme Research Infrastructures
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