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New European projects aims to accelerate micro- and nanotechnology companies |
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(Nanowerk News) The competitiveness of high-tech companies very much
relies on short time-to-market, which can only be achieved by
faster product engineering.
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The European project CORONA meets this challenge – for three years, having started in July
2008, nine partners all along the value chain in micro- and
nanotechnologies (MNT) strive for accelerating the
businesses of European companies. Amongst others, the
project shall support customer-lead multi-site product
development and provide an access to a knowledge-base on
design and processes as well as to information and
communication technology infrastructure and tools.
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Now the website corona-mnt.eu has been launched. It
presents the objectives, benefits and the methodology of the
project and will keep interested persons informed about the
results. Furthermore, coming events presenting CORONA
will be announced here.
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CORONA was showcased for the first time at the medical suppliers’ fair COMPAMED from
November 19 to 21 in Düsseldorf, Germany
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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, partly small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs), and institutes that contribute experience in design
methodology and tools for micro- and nanotechnology, MNT
production in various technological areas as well as
networking and dissemination activities. 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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