The European challenges to maintain a leading position in nanotechnology and microelectronic require unification of expertises and services. The project ANNA (contract n. 026134) aims to constitute a joint laboratory which addresses the European enforcements to the growth of this sector. The partners of this consortium will be linked in a network which will operate as a single laboratory and which will offer access to the single reference laboratories. In this European project Universities, Research Institutes, large companies, small and medium-sized enterprises will gain access to the joint laboratory and they will be supported by high qualified experts.
The project ANNA is an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative under the FP6-Program. It was started on 1st December 2006 and involves the following twelve partners:
Fondazione Bruno Kessler-IRST, Povo (IT); Fraunhofer Institut fûr Integrierte Systeme und Bauelemntetechnologie IISB (DE); ST Microelectronics Central R&D (IT); MEMC Novara (IT); NCSR Demokritos IMEL (EL); Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU); Surface Science Laboratory – University of Patras (EL); Atominstitut der Ősterreichischen Universitäten — Vienna Technical University (AT); University of Salford (UK); PTB Berlin (DE); CNR IMM (Bologna section) and IC (Roma section) (IT); Intel Performance Learning Solutions (IE).
Throughout the duration of the project, established in 48 months, a transnational access to the laboratories is offered.
In this presentation the structure and organization of ANNA project are exposed. Moreover some examples of the integrated research activity carried out in the first period of the project are reported and discuss in details.
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