1. Workshop MINAEAST-NET, Berlin, Germany, 22 Apr 2005

East/West Partnering workshop within the MINAEAST.NET initiative
TU Berlin/FhG-IZM, Berlin, Germany, 22 Apr 2005 still open for presenters. Details.

2. NANOBIO EUROPE 2005: The 2005 edition of the International Congress & Exhibition on Nanobiotechnology. The International Congress & Exhibition on Nanobiotechnology called NANOBIO EUROPE, will take place on 22-24 September 2005, in Munster ( Germany). The objectives can be found here.
The event is organized by CeNTech (Center for NanoTechnology) in Munster (http://www.centech.de/). Co organiser is CEA, Grenoble, France (www-leti.cea.fr).
Full information is available on http://www.nanobio-europe.com/. Contact: info@nanobio-europe.com.

3. The Third Workshop on the Global Nanotechnology Network (GNN) takes place in Germany, in May 2005.

Global Nanotechnology Network

The Third Workshop intended to develop the Global Nanotechnology Network (GNN) will take place in Saarbrucken, Germany, on May 26-27, 2005. The first development workshop, held in Cancun, Mexico in 2001, identified the need for a global infrastructure to enhance international collaborations in nano research and education. The second, held in Yokohama, Japan in 2003, identified common interests and created broad-based international support for the project. A third workshop is being co-organized by German, Japanese and US partners.

The hosts are the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials in Saarbrucken and the CC-NanoChem network.
Details, including registration forms.

4. Potential Eastern partners in European Projects.

The MINAEAST-NET web page ( http://www.minaeast.net/) is displaying reach information about the potential Eastern partners in FP6. In the database “research centres” one can find about 300 entries. One can have access by registering first.

5. Travel grants for researchers from Eastern Europe .

Travel grants for researchers from Eastern Europe . Researchers from Eastern Europe may request a travel grant for project preparation meetings in Western Europe. They have to register first in the databases and complete the template (request for a grant), to be found on www.minaeast.net.

6. Nano2Life announcing the opening of our new public web site, at the address: http://www.nano2life.org/.
Take a look to this site and then, send your comments, suggestions, remarks to: m.mallmann@nanobionet.de or coordinator@nano2life.org.