Organizers:
MINOS-EURONET, Micro- and Nano- Systems European Network,
Department of Electronics, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków
Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw
MINAS Scientific Network
With honorary patronage of:
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media, Directorate Components and Systems
National Contact Point, Poland
The third MINOS-EURONET Strategy Forum aims to promote and facilitate the potential of combined efforts of research, industry and policy makers to increase the competitiveness of European economy, with special focus on New Member States (NMS), by developing new technologies, emerging technologies and new design and development techniques. The Forum will focus on strategy issues of R&D in the area of nanoelectronics and MNST, cooperation and coordination of research and technology transfer and its future commercial exploitation.
Europe needs new products and ideas brought to the point of commercial viability to build economic and competitive stability, equality and growth for the next generations. Research, technological development and innovation activities are among the keys to European future welfare if combined with incubation and creation of efficient links between academia, entrepreneurship and finance. Stimulation the cooperation between industry and Knowledge Base (KB) to introduce new technologies and innovative ideas into products/processes and to disseminate the best practices and advantages obtained through the undertaken innovations guides to create new leading business technologies. Exploitation of synergy of transnational cooperation is of extremely importance for New Member States, since existing there individual areas of expertise have to be integrated within European Union in order to widen opportunities to achieve better results of their developments. It is also beneficial for the Europe as a whole boosting its innovative capacity to reinforce competitive position of the European industries to meet global challenges.
The Forum addresses the implementation of knowledge into economy through transnational cooperation and coordination of local, regional and transnational research and development initiatives, which are of extremely importance for the New Member States on their ambitious way to strengthen their emerging economies and integrate them with European market.
The Forum is linked to the IX-th National Scientific Conference on Electron Technology ELTE’07, http://www.elte2007.agh.edu.pl/ for enabling conference participants to attend this strategy and policy event as well as start and prolong direct contacts with researchers of similar or complementary research interests representing successful 7FP projects in order to co-operate in future 7FP ICT calls.
The first Forum first session will be devoted to the strategic issues of innovation policy. The European strategic innovative policy is essential to pursue Lisbon Agenda objectives. The presentations given by EU representatives and Polish Ministry of Science will explain the objectives and will give details on procedures created for supporting innovative cooperation
During second session the scheduled meetings between MINOS-EURONET and NEXUS/ EURIPIDES initiatives are planned in order to deepen their contacts as well as to discuss and plan joint efforts enhancing innovative MNST cooperation particularly focused for NMS. In parallel the Forum and Conference participants will use the opportunities for face to face contacts with the coordinators of existing EU-funded projects and discuss potential partnering and possible offers of cooperation or expressions of interest for future collaboration.
The third session will be devoted to the local solutions for coordination of R&D activities.
The fourth session of the Forum will be devoted to the cooperation. The experiences of conducting projects based on intensive wide-European R&D cooperation as well as examples of deliverables exploitation will be given by several EU Networks of Excellence and Integrated Projects coordinators. Existing European Technology Platforms will be then presented to express the industrial expectations and market-focused point of view of potential recipients of research efforts..
