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(Nanowerk News) One year has passed since the kick-off of the European
project CORONA, which aims at accelerating the businesses
of European companies by enabling faster product
engineering. Nine partners from all along the value chain in
micro- and nanotechnologies (MNT) are working towards this
goal during the three-year run-time of the project. First
results were, amongst others, introduced at the NRW Nano-
Conference from June 22 to 23, 2009 in Dortmund,
Germany. Crucially the project partners have defined future
products and thereby have approached the exploitation of
the project results. Several presentations throughout Europe
also sparked interest in CORONA from companies outside
the consortium.
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CORONA is a NMP (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies,
Materials and new Production Technologies) project in the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) funded by the
European Commission. The CORONA consortium includes companies and institutes that contribute experiences in
design methodology and tools for micro- and
nanotechnology, MNT production as well as networking and
dissemination activities. The organizations involved are:
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IVAM e.V., Microtechnology Network, Dortmund, Germany
Coventor Sarl, Villebon sur Yvette, France
Elmos Advanced Packaging BV, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Instytut Technologii Elektronowej, Warsaw, Poland
Process Relations GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
Theon Sensors SA, Athens, Greece
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Great Britain
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
X-FAB Semiconductor Foundries AG, Erfurt, Germany
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CORONA shall support customer-lead multi-site product
development and provide access to a knowledge base on
design and processes as well as access to information and
communication technology infrastructure and tools.
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