4M February Bulletin

4M NEWS and EVENTS

*Governing Council Meeting*
The venue and dates for this meeting are now confirmed. It will take place in Munich, Germany from 14th - 15th February 2008. A draft agenda is available on the event page. All partners are urged to ensure their attendance at this meeting which is the only event, other than the conference, where all partners get together.

*4M2008*
The 4th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture (4M2008) will be held in Cardiff, UK on 9th - 11th September 2008. The First Call for Papers is available now. Please note that YOU SHOULD SUBMIT YOUR PAPERS BY 10th FEBRUARY 2008 via the submission site.

*SARIX to sponsor 4M2008*
We are pleased to announce that SARIX have agreed to sponsor the 4M2008 conference dinner.
The organisers would like to thank SARIX for their continued support of 4M.
Other sponsorship packages are still available and you can read about them here.

*Polymer Processing Division*
The next meeting of this Division takes place on 7th February 2008 in Freiburg, Germany.

*4M Summer School*
Following the success of last year's first 4M Summer School, we are pleased to announce that the Technical University of Denmark (Partner 19) have agreed to host this again and the dates this year will be Monday 23rd June to Friday 4th July 2008. More details to follow.

*4M Knowledge Repository*
The 4M Knowledge Repository aims to make available a public archive of papers and other 4M publications in a searchable and downloadable form. In the first phase we've put on the website the papers from the 4M2007 conference. We are in the process of uploading and cataloguing the papers from previous conferences. They will be made public, when we get the copyright back from the publisher. In the next phase, 4M partners will be able to upload their own papers, as long as they have the appropriate copyright. You can take a look yourself and let us have any comments or suggestions.

OTHER NEWS and EVENTS

*Job Opportunity*
CECIMO is currently recruiting a Projects Coordinator for their secretariat in Brussels. Founded in 1950, CECIMO is recognized as the representative worldwide of the common interests and values of the European machine tool industry. To find more details about the post visit their website and follow the link to "job opening". The closing date for applications is 15th February 2008.

*MINAM launch event*
More than 150 high ranking representatives of the European Commission, from industry and research institutes all over Europe including Russia and Turkey met in Brussels to celebrate their launch as a European platform. “We need platforms like MINAM to help implementing the results from research to economic success,” said Dr. von Bose, DG Research, EU Commission, in his welcome address. For a full report visit the MINAM webportal.

*NMP projects selected for funding in first call*
A summary of the projects selected in the first NMP call in topics 3.5 and 3.5-2 is given here.

*MINAM Strategic Research Agenda*
The MINAM SRA is now published.

*MINOS-EURONET*
Latest news from this network is here.

*Micro Optics Conference*
The Micro Optics Conference, MOC 08, is coming to Brussels. Read more on the event page.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

*10th - 13th February 2008 *
Its not too late to register for this conference in Chamonix. Visit the IPAS'2008 website for further information.

*14th - 15th February 2008 *
4M Governing Council and workshop.

*17th - 20th March 2008 *
IMAPS Device Packaging Conference, in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

*21st - 24th April 2008*
Conference and exhibition on Ceramic Interconnect and Ceramic Microsystems Technologies (CICMT 2008). Visit the website for more information.

*23rd - 25th April 2008*
ESAFORM 2008 conference in Lyon. Details on the conference website.

*6th - 7th May 2008*
The Micro System Workshop (MSW 2008) takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden. Details on website.

*23rd June - 4th July 2008*
The second 4M Summer School, Copenhagen, Denmark. More details soon.

*10th - 11th July 2008*
International Symposium on Flexible Organic Electronics (IS-FOE)

*23rd - 25th July 2008*
CIRP ICME '08 conference in Naples. DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION has been extended to 29 FEBRUARY 2008. Details on the event page.

*9th - 11th September 2008 *
The 4th International Conference on Multi-Material Micro Manufacture (4M2008) will be held in Cardiff, UK. Visit the conference website.

*25th - 27th September 2008*
Micro Optics Conference MOC 08, Brussels, Belgium.

*5th - 7th October 2008 *
6th International Workshop on Microfactories (IWMF'08).