Benefits for the European society

The benefits for European society will be:

• increasing the knowledge platform for nanocomposites, manufacturing, processing and application, and making this knowledge available to many medium-sized and start up companies
• ensuring that consortium partners (SMEs) have a high level of up to date expertise of the newest science and technology achievements in polymer nanocomposites
• supporting consortium partners to bring products and services faster to a strongly competitive market
• enabling technology transfer by intellectual property deals among the consortium partners
• stimulating start ups and spin offs from the participating research organisations
• contributing to the creation of new employment opportunities in Europe
• helping to avoid disruption in technology by investigating sustainability and communicating up to date safety information and recommendation of protective measures for the handling of nanoparticles
• creating and supporting standardisation measures for a faster penetration of the markets
• promoting and developing up to date property measurements and data collection, as well as advanced characterisation techniques