Activities
Structuring and Integration
- Setting up and sustaining 6 integrated Service and Technology Providing Centres that support an entire food chain of micro-optics, from modelling to standardisation. Their goal is the technological support of micro-optics R&D for NEMO research centres and third-party industry.
- Setting up a micro-optics multi-project wafer facility for refractive and diffractive optics
- Creating a knowledge management centre to support e-collaboration and dissemination of knowledge on micro-optics
- Creating an Industrial Interface Centre and an Industrial Users Club for micro-optics to enhance interaction with industry and to initiate NEMO's contract research with companies.
Jointly Executed Research Activities
Tackling 6 long-term application-oriented research topics on micro-optics, the outcome of which targets to increasing the quality of life.
Spreading of Excellence Activities
- Creating optics-awareness by given secondary schools an educational optics kit.
- Spreading promotional material to increase the involvement of women in optics.
- Restructuring and integrating optics and photonics conferences with a focus on the European optics and photonics research area.
Management Activities
- Setting up the management bodies of the network, such as the Network Executive Committee, the Assembly and the External Advisory Board.
- Setting up and coordinating the Administrative, Financial and Legal Support Teams.
- Reporting to the Commission.
- Running the network through frequent meetings, in conformity with its Consortium Agreement.
