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SWOT analysis

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• Potential economical benefits for industry

Potential economical benefits for industry

• Potential increase of employment

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all levels levels

• Through structuring and integration:

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competitiveness of European industry

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emerging and and potential market

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how and and expertise expertise

• Missed

Missed opportunity

• pportunity to

to establish establish a a European European technology technology and and industry industry : : MICRO MICRO-

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OPTICS

• Europe

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OPTICS EUROPE EUROPE and and EXIT ALL RELATED TECHNOLOGIES EXIT ALL RELATED TECHNOLOGIES and and MARKETS MARKETS Today’s Threats & Consequences:

12 countries 30 research labs 333 researchers 6,4 M Euro Network Funding

CSEM,IMT,SMO 3 Switzerland KOC,SAB 2 Turkey NIT,UW,UMCS,WRUT,WUT ((M-,E-,F-)WUT) 5 (7)** Poland USC 1 Spain TUD 1 The Netherlands CNR 1 Italy UPU,CTH 2 Sweden VTT,JOE,HEPT 3 Finland HWU,SU 2 UK TRT, CNRS ( IOTA,LPN,TSI,LOPMD) 2 (5)* France FZK,FAU,IOF-ISE,LTG 4 Germany VUB,SCK,UG,VDM 4 Belgium Short name of partners Number of legal entities (number of partner institutes) Country * France contributes with 1 company and 4 different research labs. The latter all belong to one legal entity, namely

• CNRS. We therefore have 2 legal entities from France.

** Poland contributes with 1 research institute and 4 universities: NIT, UW, UMCS and WUT.

Number of NEMO partners per country

NEMO’S Main Targets

• Restructure and Integrate the European micro-optics

landscape

• Set-up durable R&D centers to provide Europe with services

and technologies on micro-optics

• Increase the competitiveness of Europe’s industry
• Pursue world-wide recognition of Europe’s long term research

in micro-optics

• Create awareness on the enabling role of micro-optics
• Provide education and training at different societal levels
• Contribution in the short and the long term to

the Quality of Life (security, health, communication)

NEMO's 4 major activities and workpackages

1) Integrating Activities WP 1 Centre for Modelling and Design WP 2 Centre for Measurement and Instrumentation WP 3 Centre for Prototyping, Mastering and Replication WP 4 Centre for Packaging and Integration WP 5 Centre for Reliability WP 6 Centre for Standardisation WP 7 Industrial Interface and Valorisation Centre WP 8 Knowledge Management Centre 2) Jointly Executed Research Activities WP 9 Micro-optics for PCB- and MCM-level Interconnects WP 10 Micro-optic Structures for Sensing Applications WP 11 Non-Conventional Micro-optical Elements WP 12 Platforms for Optical MEMS WP 13 Sub-Wavelength Structured Optical Surfaces WP 14 Infra-Red Micro-Optics 3) Spreading of Excellence Activities WP 15 Conferences, Workshops and Public Awareness WP 16 Mobility, Training, and Distance Learning 4) Consortium Management Activities WP 17 Coordination, Management, Finances and Legal Issues

Modelling and Design Mastering and Prototyping Technologies Measurement and Instrumentation Assembly, Integration and Packaging Low-Cost Replication

Providing Europe with the food chain of micro-optics

Applications for the Quality of Life

WP15 : Conferences, Workshops and Public Awareness WP 16 : Mobility and Training WP 17: Coordination, Management, Finances and Legal Issues Structuring & Integrating Joint Research Activities Spreading of Excellence Management

HUMAN INTERFACE HUMAN INTERFACE Social Social environment environment Role Role towards towards industry industry

• Create

Create a pool a pool of

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potential industrial industrial users users

• Facilitate

Facilitate and and stimulate stimulate their their access access to to network network facilities facilities

• Continuously

Continuously trigger trigger and and foster foster R&D R&D

• riented
• riented projects

projects with with industry industry

• Promote

Promote capabilities capabilities of

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service centres ( centres (e.g. e.g. booths booths) )

• Provide

Provide training training activities activities

• Create

Create awareness awareness

Industrial Interface Centre

COMPUTER (e COMPUTER (e-

• )INTERFACE

)INTERFACE e e-

• environment

environment ( (networking networking, collaboration) , collaboration) Role Role towards towards industry industry To To provide provide accessable accessable info info and and data data

• Databases

Databases on

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technology, , materials materials, , modelling modelling, , reliabilities reliabilities, standards , standards

• Patent portfolio

Patent portfolio

• Roadmaps

Roadmaps

• Market

Market surveys surveys

• Job

Job opportunities

• pportunities
• Potential

Potential for for e e-

• consulting

consulting

• …

…

Knowledge Management Centre

Project Support Officer Nathalie Debaes Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM

• Tel. : +32(0)2/629.36.58

e-mail:ndebaes@tona.vub.ac.be http://www.tona.vub.ac.be/Nemo Co-ordinator Hugo Thienpont hthienpo@vub.ac.be Vice - Co-ordinators Malgorzata Kujawinska Jürgen Mohr m.kujawinska@mchtr.pw.edu.pl Juergen.Mohr@imt.fzk.de

Co-ordination Team

WP7 : Industrial Interface Centre WP8 : Knowledge Management Centre Thomasz Kossek tkossek@itl.waw.pl Nathalie Debaes ndebaes@tona.vub.ac.be WP1 : Centre for Modelling and Design WP2 : Centre for Measurement and Instrumentation WP3 : Centre for Prototyping, Mastering and Replication WP4 : Centre for Packaging and Integration

WP5 : Centre for Reliability

WP6 : Centre for Standarisation Norbert Lindlein nlindlei@optik.uni-erlangen.de Francis Berghmans fberghma@sckcen.be Malgorzata Kujawinska m.kujawinska@mchtr.pw.edu.pl Jürgen Mohr mohr@imt.fzk.de Jürgen Mohr mohr@imt.fzk.de Pentti Karioja pentti.karioja@vtt.fi

Work Package Leaders

WP9 : Micro-optics for PCB- and MCM-level Interconnects WP10 : Micro-optic Structures for Sensing Applications WP11 :Non-Conventional Micro-optical Elements WP15 : Conferences, Workshops and Public Awareness WP12 :Platforms for Optical MEMS

WP13 : Sub-Wavelength Structured

Optical Surfaces WP14:Infra-Red Micro-Optics WP16 :Mobility and Training Peter Van Daele peter.vandaele@intec.UGent.be Philippe Lalanne philippe.lalanne@iota.u-psud.fr Brian Culshaw b.culshaw@eee.strath.ac.uk Fredrik Nikolajeff fredrik.nikolajeff@angstrom.uu.sel Mo Taghizadeh M.Taghizadeh@hw.ac.uk Malgorzata Kujawinska m.kujawinska@mchtr.pw.edu.pl Hakan Urey hurey@ku.edu.tr Ryszard Buczynski rybuczyn@mimuw.edu.pl

Work Package Leaders

April, 2006 Palais de la Musique et des Congrès de Strasbourg Strasbourg, France Conferences · Exhibition · Workshops · Courses Daily Updates and photos from Photonics Europe 2004 General Chairs:

Hugo Thienpont , Vrije Univ. Brussel (Belgium) Giancarlo C. Righini, Istituto di Fisica Applicata Nello Carrara - CNR (Italy) Patrick Meyrueis, Univ. Louis Pasteur (France)

• Lasers
• Biophotonics
• Optoelectronics
• Nano-Photonics
• Materials
• Metrology
• Sensing
• Micro-Optics
• Packaging
• Micromachining
• Plus-Special Hot Topics in Photonics
• Photonics Innovation Village

I n the new Europe there is a new reality for scientists, researchers, engineers, universities, and research laboratories. Step into the future by attending Photonics Europe, the showcase for Europe as a technical leader in optics, photonics,

• ptoelectronics, imaging, and more.

NEMO supports

• Innovation village
• Exhibit on Light for Students
• Distribution of Educ. Kit
• European Industrial Workshop
• EC involvement
• Students afternoon
• rganizes Pan-European Conferences

supports topical meetings

Phd- student of

• Prof. Machteld

De Metsenaere will focus on the study

• f women in optics

embraces gender issues

creates public awareness

NEMO will take the lead for a European-minded Careers in Optics CD- ROM Hugo Thienpont Kathleen Robinson (SPIE)

Micro- and Nano- Optics Summerschool

Education and Training of PhDs