A briefEuropean Multifunctional

introduction to the Materials Institute

European Multifunctional Materials Institute

• Origins
• Members and Partners
• Activities
• Projects
• Databases
• Access to Research Facilities
• Training Schools

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Origins: From FAME to EMMI

• EMMI was founded in 2008 by the partners of the European

FP6 Network of Excellence FAME (Functionalised Advanced
Materials and Engineering of Hybrids and Ceramics)

• The main objective of Networks of Excellence such as FAME

is durable integration of laboratories and research efforts in
Europe

• EMMI is a Belgian non-profit organisation (‘AISBL’).

It is sometimes called a ‘Virtual Institute’

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Members and Partners

EMMI currently has 10 academic Full Members,
3 academic Partners, and 6 industry Adherent Members

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Activities I

• EMMI is active in the research field of functional ceramics,

polymers and hybrid (organic-inorganic) materials, with
applications in IT, energy, environmental technology and
health.

• EMMI initiates and supports international collaborative

projects and exchange of information, data and know-how
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Activities II

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Academic Members & Partners Industry

Universities / Research Organisations Members

Masters Doctoral Research Projects

Education: Education: MaCoMuFi Industry
FAME-Master IDS-FunMat R&D
OXIDES
Joint PhDs, METACHEM
MaMaSELF Summer schools
MOLOC

Legal Framework: EMMI Information Services:

Model Contracts databases for know-how & equipmt
Good Practices Charter website, newsletter, tutorials

Legal Foundation: EMMI AISBL Statutes, Internal Regulation

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Spin-off Projects - Examples

METACHEM : Nanochemistry and self-assembly for a full list of projects see
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• FP7 Collaborative Project 2009-13
• coordinated by CRPP Bordeaux
• 8 academic and one industry partner

PhD “Integrated optical devices based on self-

assembled hybrid materials”
• Co-supervised PhD project 2008-11
• financed by French government
ciceco
• ENSC Montpellier and Uni Aveiro

FAME – MASTER DEGREE:

• Course in Multifunctional Materials
• 2 years studies in 2-3 different countries
• supported by ERASMUS MUNDUS
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Online Databases
• ‘People & Skills’: 200 materials researchers with contact data,
research skills, interests, key publications

• ‘Research Equipment & Tools’ (RET): specialised, often

unique research equipment / software with over 150
instruments and 10 software packages
in progress: search engine for characterisation techniques

• 25 EMMI laboratories and their activities

• Spin-off projects

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Access to Research Facilities

EMMI members and partners offer each other
access under preferential conditions to their
‘own’ Research Equipment
(microscopy, spectroscopy,
film deposition, etc. etc.)

…and sometimes ‘director’s beamtime’

to beamlines at some of Europe’s
large scale research facilities:
• neutron reactors ILL (Grenoble),
FRM II (Munich), LLB (Saclay, Paris)
• synchrotrons DESY (Hamburg),
BESSY II (Berlin), ESRF (Grenoble)
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Training Schools

• The FAME network organised 10 training schools 2005-8

• EMMI will organise (at least) 1 school per year, in
collaboration with IDS-FunMat and other networks

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Further Information

Website: http://www.emmi-materials.eu
Email: info@emmi-materials.eu
Newsletter: EMMI News and Views (per email or download)
Executive Director: Jean Etourneau, ICMCB Bordeaux
jean.etourneau@icmcb-bordeaux.cnrs.fr

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