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The CSIC participates in the network Fame

09/03/2005

on March 9, 2005

The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (csic) will participate in the international network Fame (an acronym for advanced functional materials and its engineering), of recent creation, through the Institute of chemical technology (Joint Center of the CSIC and the Polytechnic University of Valencia) and the Institute of materials science of Barcelona.

With an endowment of five million euros, this network of excellence brings together the best teams of research in materials science, from orgánico-inorgánicos hybrid materials for functional ceramics. FAME brings together 22 centres and more than 250 researchers from seven countries (Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Portugal, United Kingdom and Israel).

The objectives of the network Fame, which will be coordinated from the University of Bordeaux, include permanent integration and cooperation in the development of new functional materials (hybrids and ceramics), of interest in many different applications, such as solar panelssensors, electronics and bioactive materials.

Fame will allow research groups to share facilities, a fundamental cooperation for large-scale projects, such as accelerators of particles or sincrotones. Another final objective is that the Fame network serve as a catalyst to create the future European Institute of materials, virtual center with its own legal and economic structure to lead the research in this area. According to experts, a necessary challenge in a European Union in the process of integration.