Contact
Dr. George Konstantinidis
aek@physics.uoc.gr
- WP2 leader
- Establish SMARTEC pilot line and integrated it into the ISO 9001 quality system
- Produce TRX product prototypes for avionics and marine applications
- Strategy towards as wide as possible deployment of the SMARTEC innovation
- Dissemination (where applicable) of the project results.
- Participation to the SMARTEC foreground activities
FORTH participates in the project with the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) of its Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IESL). MRG was founded in 1986 and since then it has evolved into a unique, in Greece, full-scale research facility in compound semiconductor micro/nano-optoelectronics working on IIIarsenides, III-nitrides, SiC, carbon electronics, oxides and tellurides. Over the years it has participated into many international projects (FP, ENIAC, NATO) like ESPRIT (Nos. 1270, 2035, 2289, 3086, 5018, 5031, 9500, 21315, 28998), RACE (No. 1027), BRITE/EURAM 5416, NATO Sfp “HP-HF SiC power devices”, NATO Sfp “SICPIN”, a US Army ERO on SiC power devices, “QN laser I”, “QN laser II”, “GaNANO”, “AMICOM”, “ULTRAGAN”, “BONTEC”, “PICMOS”, “MORGAN”, “TARGET”, “NANOTEC”, “SMARTPOWER”, “NANORF”, “MERCURE”, “NANOCOM”, “ARTEMOS”, “CLERMONT”, “ICARUS”, “INDEX”, POLAFLOW” and numerous national projects. To exploit its accumulated expertise, the group has launched a microelectronics services activity providing epitaxial wafers, processing and measurement services. The latter two are ISO 9001 certified. In 2005 FORTH was among the winners of the Descartes prize for its work on left handed materials. MRG disseminates its research in high quality journals including Science and Nature.
PRAXI Network is the industry liaison office of FORTH. Active since 1991, PRAXI is the leading technology transfer support organisation in Greece offering services to SMEs and research labs. PRAXI mediates ~30 technology transfer agreements per year and is supporting ~300 clients in participating in H2020. PRAXI is the coordinator of the Greek consortium of the Enterprise Europe Network (since 2008), the largest business support network in the world, co-funded by the EU through COSME, National Contact Point for H2020 since FP5, facilitator of two high tech clusters on Biotechnology (HBio) and photonics (HPhos) and main organizer of Equity Investement Forum (formerly International VC Forum) since 2000.