NAMIS: A doctoral school focused on fundamental, practical and an applicative aspect of MEMS/NEMS technologies
This one week school entitled "Micro and Nano systems based technologies for wireless applications in environment, health and security domains" is addressed to Ph.D. students and post-docs currently working on MEMS/NEMS and related domains in Swiss research institutions and those belonging to the NAMIS international network. The IMT in Neuchâtel will be the host institution of this educative workshop event for the first part being held in Switzerland. This event will be also supported by the international NAMIS network and the LEA microtechnique via the InterREG program. The Swiss NanoTera participants will also be welcomed to take the classes to be proposed at the FEMTO-ST in Besançon on an audit basis. The NAMIS network is strongly committed and involved in research and dissemination of MEMS/NEMS technologies.
Since it was created in November 2005, NAMIS has focused much effort on exchanging and disseminating research and know-how among high qualified laboratories and world recognized academic institutions. Members of the NAMIS network are geographically dispersed in several countries on three continents: Japan, South Korea, France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Canada and USA. One of the highlights of the NAMIS network activities is the doctoral school organized by one of the members every year. The main topic of the doctoral school focuses on a specific feature of MEMS/NEMS and expertise of the host institution. Ph.D. students, postdocs and scientists working in one of the NAMIS network institutions are encouraged to attend this school that involves master seminars, practical work, demonstrations, visits to laboratories and a poster session. This is a unique occasion for Ph.D. students to be in touch with highly qualified international researchers as well as to get awareness of the current trends and challenges in their research domain.
The scope of this NAMIS international doctoral school 2011 will be to disseminate and enhance competences micro and nanosystems based technologies for wireless applications in the NanoTera domains (health, energy, environment and security). Gathering future researchers and actors in the MEMS/NEMS field is a crucial step in the dissemination of know-how to encourage exchanges and networking among participants. In 2011, the proposed doctoral school will be carried out during one week at two locations: IMT – Neuchâtel in Switzerland and FEMTO-ST – Besançon in France. This proposal concerns only the funding for the first part of this doctoral school, 2 days, which will take place at IMT - Neuchâtel. Funding is foreseen to invite international recognized lecturers to be selected by a scientific committee composed of Swiss institutions and NAMIS representatives. As a result, Ph.D. students will be in touch with currently research trends that they will be implementing and disseminating after the doctoral school in their home laboratories in Switzerland and abroad. Short and long term collaborations will be strongly encouraged during the NAMIS doctoral school and they will take advantage of the existing international network and high competence of NAMIS members.
Besides NAMIS as partner contributing to the matching fund in this proposal, the InterREG program will also participate to the doctoral school. Besides the international connectivity, InterREG will itself facilitate and encourage the exchange of know-how and technology in the MEMS/NEMS field in the Jura area between France and Switzerland. This unique funding frame will expose participants to highly qualified scientists and open to exchange MEMS/NEMS platform. The Swiss MEMS community has a unique opportunity to reinforce the MEMS/NEMS leadership by organizing such a promising and advanced doctoral school. The participants in the NanoTera program will benefit for an education and training activity in an international environment with a unique program (lectures by invited key international scientists, practical work, soft skills, laboratory visits, poster networking, industrial conferences) that cannot be provided in Swiss universities doctoral programs.
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