Cleanrooms collaborate to boost nanoscience in Scandinavia
Chalmers MC2 Nanofabrication Laboratory and Lund Nano Lab in Sweden and DTU Danchip in Denmark are to collaborate in a scheme initiated by Nano Connect Scandinavia.
Nano Connect Scandinavia is an EU-funded project involving eight universities and institutes, as well as five regional public bodies, in Sweden and Denmark. The objective is to boost nanoscience and nanotechnology in the region and to increase the commercialisation of research.
The three Scandinavian cleanrooms are to standardise their user education programmes, making it easier for both researchers and companies to work in different cleanrooms in the region. They are also launching an exchange programme, which will enable staff to spend time at each of the facilities, gaining experience of new equipment and processes.
“This type of cooperation can strengthen the Western Scandinavia region further and make it easier for more companies to take advantage of the possibilities that nanotechnology represents,” said Johan Borgström, project manager for Nano Connect Scandinavia.
“Cleanrooms is an area where everybody stands to gain from an increased cooperation across national borders,” he added. “But we have also noticed an interest from companies, researchers and authorities to work together on other aspects of nanotechnology. One example is nano safety where we will launch a Scandinavian network in 2010.”
Contact www.chalmers.se/mc2 www.nano.lth.se/research/materials-science/methods-and-techniques/electron-microscopy www.dtudanchip.dtu.dk
