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The rapidly expanding field of nanotechnology is cross-disciplinary by nature and involves physics, chemistry, biology, molecular biology and medicine. It is considered a very promising field, which is expected to give powerful impetus to a new industrial revolution. The critical issue which needs to be addressed is how to educate and train young researchers for an expanding research area characterised by an explorative nature and disciplinary complexity.
The Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) has established an educational program that incorporates a broad spectrum of basic, advanced and specialized courses to provide students with a sufficiently broad basis to be able to conduct interdisciplinary nanoscience research and at the same time obtain disciplinary depth and specialised skills in selected areas. The iNANO curriculum has already been adopted by several universities throughout Europe, and new nanoscience/nanotechnology curricula are currently being approved at many universities.
To meet the demand for researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology, the iNANO organisation has also established a graduate school; iNANOschool. The goal of iNANOschool is to educate researchers in nanoscience and nanotechnology for research positions in public and industrial laboratories. iNANOschool accepts national and international PhD students on equal terms. The main competence of the graduate school lies in the very broad spectrum of disciplines involved through the participation of research groups covering most fields of science from chemistry/physics to medicine/biology.
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