Education and Training in Nano2Life NoE

(Bringing NANOtechnologies TO LIFE)

Elisabeth Csöregi
Lund University, Sweden
https://project.nano2life.org
Coordinator: Patrick Boisseau, CEA, Grenoble, France,

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 Nano2Life
is the first European
Network of Excellence
in Nanobiotechnology

supported by
the European Commission
 23 partners
Lund University (1)

MIC Copenhagen Bio-Analytik Muenster (3)

Mesa+ Twente
NanoBioNet
NMRC Cork Saarbruecken (5)
EPFL Lausanne
INSAT Newcastle FSRM Neuchatel

NanoBio Grenoble (3) JRC Ispra

Demokritos Athens

FORTH Heraklion
PCB Barcelona (1)
Tel Aviv Univ.
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Associate partners in New Member
States/Candidate Countries
Institute of Macromolecular
Chemistry , Prague, Czeck
Rep.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering

University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

•National Institute for

Microtechnologies (IMT),
Bucharest,
•“Petru Poni” Institute of
Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi,
Romania

•Institute for Materials Science
and Technology (BAYATI)
•Institute of Chemistry
Budapest, Hungary
Nano2Life
National Centre on
Nanotechnology, Sofia,
Bulgaria
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 23 industrial Nanotech
associated partners

NanoBiogene

Research Market

manteia

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 International cooperation with
reference centers

Nano-Quebec
Montreal

Nanoscale Science Asian

and Engineering Center Inst. of
Evanston, IL Nanobioscience
Nanobiotech Science and Technology
and Engineering Center Busan
Cornell, Ithaca, NY Medical Nano-
bio Center,
Sungkyunkwan
University

OzNano2Life,
University of
Technology
Sydney

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 The ultimate Goal of N2L:
European Institute of Nanobiotech
EIN

• Excellence centre for European R&D in

nanobiotechnology
• Reference centre for industry, science,
society, politics, education & training
• Issuing calls for proposals in nanobiotech
• Benchmarks are EMBL, Fraunhofer
Gesellschaft
• Central management but local facilities

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Disciplines in partnership

80
Number of scientists
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Biology
Health
Physics-
Technology
Chemistry

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Main activities
• Joint Research Programme
• Education & Training Programme
– MSc, PhD, technical training, e-learning
• Network of shared resources
• IPR and knowledge management
• Dissemination & Communication
• Industrial cooperation
• Foresight and strategy
• Ethics
• Gender

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Education and Training in N2L
I- shall form the basis of future EIN curriculum
II- shall be of use for « present members/YS »
ƒ characterised by the «3i »-s:
¾ interdisciplinarity
¾ internationality
¾ integration
ƒ state-of-the-art teaching methods
ƒ shall cover all aspects (science, IPR, ethics,
gender,….
ƒ shall be flexible, not strictly located in one site

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Education strategy
• Short-term
– Documenting existing resources and N2L labelling
relevant education/training forms
– Identifying gaps and needs
– Sharing resources
– Supporting relevant summer schools and
workshops
– Tutorials (bridging gaps)
• Long-term
– Development and recommendation of N2L
curriculum (masters and PhD levels)
– Establishing N2L doctoral schools (post graduate
level)
– Development of N2L own summer
Nano2Life
school
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Reality vs. N2L curriculum
• Education policy/curriculum is different in
different countries/individual institutions

• N2L should act as an advisory board

recommending guidelines providing the
framework for establishing courses and
curriculum for education in
nanobiotechnology

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 Basic principles

• considering principles of biological systems, ranging

from molecular, through cellular to the whole body
• covering physics and chemistry of molecules of
biological importance, their assembly into
supramolecular systems and cells
• covering principles and applications of nano/micro-
fabrication and properties of nano- and microdevices.
• merging all of the above into nanobiosystems driven by
possible applications.

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 Structure
• Module I
– Foundations of NBT- atoms, molecules and cells (e.g. Chemistry
and Physics for Biologists; Biomolecules for Engineers and Physical Scientists;
Cell Biology for Engineers and Physical Scientists)

• Module II
– Core NBT– the tools (e.g. Microfabrication Technologies; Nanofabrication;
Characterisation. Biological Systems, imaging techniques,

• Module III
– NBT Systems- integration in systems driven by potential
benefits and applications (e.g. medical diagnostics and therapeutics; lab-on-a-
chip, micro and nanofluidics, BioMEMS,…

• Module IV
– Development/Research project

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 Other education forms
• all covered by same principles
• shall involve IPR, gender & ethics
education
• shall be given in English
• summer schools and workshops shall
combine theory with hands-on moments
¾preferably involve industrial participation

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 Other education forms
• Tutorials, at JPA and annual meetings
¾ basics of biochemistry
¾ stem cells, gene therapy and neurogenesis
¾ surface analytical tools
• E-learning
¾ e-handbook
¾ virtual laboratories
• Technical woorkshops with industry
¾ imaging techniques, TAU, planned for Autumn 2005

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Thank you for your attention!

More questions???
Contact:
Elisabeth.Csoregi@analykem.lu.se