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The nanocompsite made it to the cover of external page this month`s Advanced Materials Interfaces Journal and the paper is available external page here.
We have a date for the next, 5th project meeting of HARMoNIC and it is 4th September 2020. Due to the current situation around Covid-19, it was decided that the meeting will be held in the form of an online conference.
April-May 2020: Currently, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the entire HARMoNIC team is working from home.
The 4th HARMoNIC project meeting will take place in the form of an online webinar on 16th June 2020, instead of as planned, at the IIT facilities. We hope that the meeting after that will be a face-to-face one in Genova, Italy.
The third HARMoNIC project meeting took place on November 15th 2019 at the National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" (NCSR-D) in Athens, Greece.
The morning of the meeting was spent discussing the overall progress of the project with its achievements until now. A great achievement is that only 12 months after the start of HARMoNIC, the project already has two publications out (more information can be found in the publication section of the website) and a third one has just been accepted!
During the afternoon, work continued with ardent and fruitful discussions on upcoming work. During the process, it became evident how productive the collaborations between the partners are. Further, it was decided that the next project meeting of HARMoNIC will take place in Genova, Italy in the spring of 2020. The day ended with a visit of the NCSR-D research facilities.
Second Project Meeting of HARMoNIC
The second project meeting of HARMoNIC took place on April 1st 2019 at ETH in Zurich. The meeting started with a review on the progress of each consoritum member. Later on, already achieved deliverables were discussed, as well as, upcoming deadlines for the next ones. During the meeting, the HARMoNIC partners had the chance to visit the lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, especially remodelled for the needs of the HARMoNIC project.
Furthmore, it was decided that the next project meeting will take place in Athens, Greece. Currently, the partners are deciding on the exact date of the meeting.
The hosts of the next project meeting of HARMoNIC, NCSR-Demokritos, announced the organisation of the 45th international conference on external page Micro & Nano Engineering, which will take place between September 23rd and 26th 2019.
Kick-Off Meeting of HARMoNIC
The kick-off meeting for the HARMoNIC project took place on October 15th 2018 at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. During the entire day, project partners discussed project work packages, milestones and deliverables in detail and agreed on the specific targets for the first year. Furthermore, they decided on the use of a common platform for data and information exchange.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 801229