The FNR is pleased to communicate that all four eligible full proposals involving Luxembourg partners have been retained for funding in the 2017 M-ERA.NET Call, an FNR commitment of 1.76 MEUR.
M-ERA.NET is an EU funded network which has been established to support and increase the coordination of European research programmes and related funding in materials science and engineering. In the 2017 Call, 91 pre-proposals were submitted, requesting 68 MEUR funding in total. 48 full-proposals were submitted and 37 full-proposals passed the full-proposal evaluation. Finally 19 full-proposals (1 still pending) were selected for funding requesting 15 MEUR.
Four projects with participation of Luxembourg researchers were submitted in the full-proposal stage and all four were very positively evaluated. Therefore, the FNR decided to increase its initial call budget in order to fund all projects. The Luxembourg part of the projects amounts to a total volume of 1.76 MEUR coming from the FNR’s INTER budget.
Funded projects
Luxembourg applicant
Patrick Choquet
Project title & duration
Low cost atmospheric pressure micro plasma coater instrument for its integration on a 2D and 3D additive manufacturing process of your proposal (PLACOATAM)
36 months
Lux institution
LIST – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
FNR committed
€477,000
Luxembourg applicant
Youssef Habibi
Project title & duration
3D printable Innovative Bio Based Material for Wood Mimics (3D PrintInn)
36 months
Lux institution
LIST – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
FNR committed
€354,000
Luxembourg applicant
Jens Schwamborn
Project title & duration
Development of a novel organs-on-a-chip platform for nanodrug delivery and functionality testing to treat Parkinson’s disease (nanoPD)
36 months
Lux institution
University of Luxembourg
FNR committed
€492,000
Luxembourg applicant
Tommaso Serchi
Project title & duration
Development of a new generation of environmentally friendly, microalgal oil-based functional fluids modified with graphene family nanomaterials (GFNs) (ENVALGRA)
24 months
Lux institution
LIST – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
FNR committed
€437,000
More information
The full list of retained projects can be viewed on the M-ERA.NET website
