Archived news:
April 2010
New Brochure for 2010
The latest Nano-Tera brochure is available here.
Poster list is up
The program and the poster list for the Nano-Tera Annual Plenary Meeting are available.
March 2010
Newsletter published
The latest newsletter is available here.
February 2010
A new ED project has been approved:
January 2010
CMOSAIC on the airwaves
Prof. David Atienza of CMOSAIC discussed 3D stacked architectures with Radio Suisse Romande:
Biosphère... un processeur en 3D  (available in French only)
Recruitment begins for the new RTD projects
Three new PhD posts and two Post-Doc positions are now available.
December 2009
The selection of the 2nd wave of major Nano-Tera.ch projects is finalized
Nano-Tera.ch and involved partners will invest around 45.6MCH in the coming next 3 years for the 9 newly selected Research Technology and Development (RTD). These large projects, with budgets oscillating between 4 to 7 million each, have been evaluated scientifically by the Swiss National Science Foundation and will officially start on March 1st 2010. Participating academic institutions involved are ALP, CSEM, CHUV, EMPA, EPFL, ETHZ, HES-SO, PSI, UniBS, UniGE UniL, and USI.
A common striking characteristic of these selected projects is that they all address scientific challenges aiming at societal and well being improvements in:
- Health from new chip challenges simulating the gastro-intestinal-track for better food with NutriChip, new probing technique in life science such as for early cancer detection with PATLiSci, intelligent integrated systems for personalized medicine with ISyPeM to implantable systems for on-line metabolic monitoring with i-IRONIC.
- Security issues in communication by addressing leading quantum key distribution developments for higher speed with QCrypt
- Environment to support worldwide leadership of Swiss scientist and engineers in combating pollution, global warming and energy crisis with three most strategic projects: from air quality monitoring working on real time awareness and giving a pro-active role to the citizens with OpenSense, distributed hydrogen solar energy and correlated system management for efficient individual green power production with GreenPower to global warming related challenges with alpine mass movement monitoring at multiple scale with X-Sense.
This unique set of projects all individually challenge the Nano-Tera.ch vision of the whole program to bring nano- and micro-technology experts together with those from systems, software and ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). One additional project from a different type was selected for its scientific quality and unique horizontal strategic relevance to all players at platform circuit level underlying heterogeneous Nano and Tera systems: PlaCiTUS.
Beyond their scientific excellence, these selected RTDs are fine tuning the practical strategic vision of the whole Nano-Tera.ch program, which is an opportunity to draw your attention to the release of the new call on NTF (Nano-Tera.ch Focused projects) and EDs (Educations and Dissemination) activities: Call for Proposals.
The list of the selected projects and involved (PI) Principal investigators and Co-investigators (Co-PI) is provided below.
i-IRONIC: Implantable/Wearable System for on-line monitoring of human metabolic
Giovanni DE MICHELI (PI), Sandro CARRARA, Catherine DEHOLLAIN, Fanio GRASSI, Qiuting HUANG, Yusuf LEBLEBICCI, Linda THOENY-MEYER
ISyPeM: Intelligent integrated Systems for personalized medicine
Carlotta GUIDUCCI (PI), Thierry BUCLIN, Giovanni DE MICHELI, Christian ENZ, Carlos-Andrés PENA-REYES
PATLiSci: Probe Array Technology for Life Science Applications
Harry HEINZELMANN (PI), Friedrich BERGMANN, Nico DE ROOIJ, Hans-Peter HERZIG, Agnes MARIOTTI, Ernst MEYER, Pedro Julio ROMERO, Horst VOGEL
NutriChip: Technological platform for nutrition analysis to promote healthy food
Martin GIJS (PI), Sandro CARRARA, Richard HURREL, Jeremy RAMSDEN, Guy VERGERES
PlaCiTUS: Platform Circuit technology Underlying Heterogeneous Nano and Tera Systems
Qiuting HUANG (PI), Catherine DEHOLLAIN, Christian ENZ
GreenPower: Connecting the renewable energy to green mobility with hydrogen
Jan-Anders MÅNSON (PI), Leszek LISOWSKI, Guenter SCHERER
OpenSense: Open Sensor Network for Air quality monitoring
Karl ABERER (PI), Boi FALTINGS, Alchiero MARTINOLI, Lothar THIELE, Martin VETTERLI
X-Sense: Monitoring Alpine Mass Movement at Multiple Scale
Lothar THIELE (PI), Jean BEUTEL, Alain GEIGER, Stefan GRUBER
QCrypt: Secure high speed communication based on quantum key distribution
Nicolas GISIN (PI), Norbert FELBER, Etienne MESSERLY, Gregory RIBORDY
Call for propsals
The calls are open for proposals for NTF and ED projects - details are available here.
November 2009
Newsletter published
The latest newsletter is available here.
October 2009
First Nano-Tera workshop
Nano-Tera.ch and the FSRM are glad to invite all the community to our first workshop on
Biosensors • Body Area Networks
which will be held on November 23-24 at le Louverain, in Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane (near Neuchâtel). This first is free of charge for all participants - unless a single room is required - and we encourage everyone to participate and meet other researchers in a casual atmosphere. The details of the program will be continuously updated here.
June 2009
Newsletter published
The latest Nano-Tera newsletter has been published. Please feel free to download it in:
May 2009
RTD projects deadline has been set
Please note that the deadline cited in the call on May 31st falls on a holiday. Hence the effective validity of this deadline is the next official working day, that is: June 2nd 2009 23h59.
We warmly recommend you to make sure you have your mySNF login before this last week-end before the deadline.
Also, please note that a correction has been made in the detailed budget form under the calculated total for:
1.5. Total Nano-Tera.CH Funds
and
2.5. Total Own Contributions
The required correction is for the total that needs in both cases to take into account the line for "Personnel" (line_148 and line_177 respectively).
The corrected file is available here:
This and other documents can be found on the Calls for Proposals page.
January 2009
RTD projects approved
Congratulations to the ten research teams who have been accorded RTD projects.
Details of the subjects being researched are available here.
The geographical distribution of the Principle Investigators and their team members can be seen on the geographical scope page.
October 2008
RTD proposals to be audited by the SNSF panel in Bern
The SNSF has appointed a panel of reviewers for the RTD program,
which has now performed a review of the proposals.
The Executive Committee has communicated to the SNSF an opinion on the
strategic relevance of the individual proposals.
Based on the scientific evaluation by the SNF and the input of the
Executive Committee, the SNSF has sent invitations to 27 Principal Investigators of RTD proposals
to present their project in front of the panel. These presentations will be
10 minutes long, followed by a 10 minute question and answer session.
September 2008
Two NTF and two ED research projects have been officially approved.
See details here.
The newsletter is now available!
To subscribe, just join the Nano-Tera.CH community here.
April 2008
Nano-Tera.CH application on mySNF
RTD-Project application forms are now also available on the www.mySNF.ch portal.
Applications for RTD projects at Nano-Tera.CH will have to be made at:
www.mySNF.ch and admin@nano-tera.ch
The release of the documents for applying to the Nano-Tera.CH program on www.mySNF.ch will be made on April 16th 2008. The deadline is May 1st 2008. The working document you have been provided under www.Nano-Tera.CH will be made accessible there as well for the requested electronic application through the mySNF portal.
Please pay attention to the following:
- You need to proceed with your mySNF portal registration first
- The registered person has to be the Principal Investigator (PI) of the application
- If the PI already is alraedy registered, he has to use his existing resistration access
The Nano-Tera.CH access is under "Abteilung II".
March 2008
Working application documents for research proposals are now available for download here.
Professor De Micheli in an interview with La télé des ingenieur-e-s, explaining the goals of Nano-Tera.
The following video is only available in French:
January 2008
Nano-Tera.ch opening event is taking place on January 28th from 2 to 6pm in Bern 
December 2007
Nano-Tera gets a boost
Nano-Tera.ch opening event is taking place
on January 28th from 2 to 6pm in Bern
nano-tera.ch
Opening Event
January 28th, Bern
Bellevue Palace, Salon du Palais, Kochergasse 3-5, CH-3000 Bern 7
Agrandir le plan
scope of the event:
provide scientific and
procedural information
In its Message on Education, Research and Innovation for 2008-2011, the Federal Council has proposed to provide funds to the nano-tera.ch initiative. Based on the positive decision by the Swiss Parliament, nano-tera.ch will support, starting in 2008, a range of research and educational projects.
Nano-tera.ch is centered on the research, development and application of micro, nano and information technologies to embedded systems, networks and software to support health, security and environmental monitoring. The broad objectives of the program are both to improve quality of life and security of people across different levels of education, wealth and age and to create innovative products, technologies and manufacturing methods, thus resulting in job and revenue creation.
program
2.00 pm
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Public presentation of the nano-tera.ch program with questions and answers |
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