under the Distinguished Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic

Organizers

AIRI/Nanotec IT
Founded in 1974 with the aim of promoting industrial research and enhancing co-operation between private and public sector, today AIRI – Italian Association for Industrial Research - is the focal point for more than 120 members operating in R&D. Researchers from AIRI members represent about the 45% of the country.
Due to this broad representative base, AIRI is a key opinion leader for decision-makers sustaining industrial research as strategy for the technological development of the Country.

Nanotec IT - Italian Centre for Nanotechnology- has been created by AIRI in 2003 to be a National focal point for nanotechnology of reference to industry, public research, governmental institutions. Its mission is to promote nanotechnology and its application in Italy and help to translate it into a competitive advantage for the Country.

www.airi.it
info@airi.it

www.nanotec.it
info@nanotec.it

National Research Council (CNR)
The National Research Council is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.
To this end, the activities of the organization are divided into macro areas of interdisciplinary scientific and technological research, concerning several sectors: biotechnology, medicine, materials, environment and land, information and communications, advanced systems of production, judicial and socio-economic sciences, classical studies and arts. CNR has more than 4 thousand researchers active in almost 100 Institutes, working in the main fields of scientific and humanistic research. In addition to these ones there are more than 3000 junior scientists completing their training at CNR.

www.cnr.it
segreteria.dmd@cnr.it ; segreteria.dpm@cnr.it

Veneto Nanotech
Veneto Nanotech was created in 2003 after careful valuation and analysis of the Italian business reality regarding innovation and technology transfer, and has grown to coordinate the activities of the hi tech cluster of nanotechnology applied to materials. Veneto Nanotech was established with the objective to build international excellence in research, to foster the application of nanotechnology, and to support the development of start-ups in the focus sector. It proposes itself as a link at an institutional level and as a referee for companies and research institutions, in order to create innovative hi-tech products.

www.venetonanotech.it
info@venetonanotech.it