NanoforumEULA workshop: Priorities in Nanomaterials Research in Latin America and Europe

Cancun, in conjunction with XVI International Materials Research Congress, 23 August 2007

Participants fee: free for this workshop (normal fee for attending XVI IMRC congress)

PROGRAMME VERSION 25 July 2007

9.00	Welcome to participants by Mauricio Terrones, IPICyT, chairman
9.15	The NanoforumEULA project: stimulating Nanonetworking Europe and Latin America by Ineke Malsch, Malsch TechnoValuation
9.30	The European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for RTD: opportunities for Latin American Researchers, by Pilar Aguar, European Commission
10.00	Review of nanotechnology R&D programmes in Mexico (Jesús González, CIMAV) TBC
10.30	Coffee/tea and poster session (the posters are on display in the same room all day)
	Presentations by leading Latin American nanomaterials researchers collaborating with European partners:
11.00	Humberto Terrones, Mexico
11.15	Jacobus Swart, State university Campinas, Brazil
11.30	Petrus D’Amorim, RENAMI, Brazil
11.45	Ernesto Calvo, Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina
12.00	Fernando Lund Chile
12.15	Colombia TBC
	Presentations European Nanomaterials researchers collaborating with Latin American partners:
12.30	Jurriaan Schmitz, MESA+, University of Twente, Netherlands
12.45	Pascal Sire, MINATEC, France
13.00	Andreas Leson ,Fraunhofer IWS, Germany:
13.15	Teresa Cuberes, Laboratorio de Nanotécnicas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: TBC
13.30	David Rickerby, EU JRC institute for Environment and Sustainability
13.45	Lunch
15:45	Maurizio Prato, Univ. Trieste, Italy.
16:00	Brokerage session: up to 12 interested participants can present their cooperation project proposals in five minutes
17:00	Roundtable Euro-Latin American nanotechnology collaboration
18:00	Close of the meeting by chairman Professor Mauricio Terrones
18:15	Coffee/tea and poster session