4M June Bulletin

4M NEWS and EVENTS

*4M2008*
To all authors, both your Registration and License Agreement are now overdue. So please send us your forms urgently!
For useful information about the conference, the city of Cardiff, travel and accommodation visit the conference website.

*Sensors & Actuators Division*
TU Vienna would like to host a follow-up workshop on "cell handling and actuation" (Task 11.6) on June 19-20, 2008. We would like interdisciplinary contributions for this meeting and are aiming for about 20 participants including some industrial representation. If you are interested in participating or require more information please contact Sandra Wilson or Paul Kirby.

*Polymers Division*
This Divison is about to host the next in its series of "sandpits", where industrialists are gathered together to exchange ideas, to discuss the latest developments and to identify industrially relevant research requirements. The next event, jointly organised with Plastipolis takes place in Switzerland on Friday 20th June, details on the event page.

*4M Summer School - fully booked!*
The response to this years Summer School, Monday 23rd June to Friday 4th July 2008, has been very encourgaing and it is now fully booked. See the Summer School web page.

*The 4M Association*
The EC funding for the 4M NoE finishes at the end of September 2008. To continue and sustain the relationships created during the lifetime of the Network we are going to form a 4M Association, which will be an Association open for membership to all, by subscription. To learn more visit the 4M Association page.

OTHER NEWS and EVENTS

*MINOS Euronet*
The MINOS-EURONET project has combined a series of methods to showcase Micro Nano Technology R&D Capabilities from New Member States for a better integration of their research activities into the European Research Area (ERA). The project has now finished but you can read about its successes here.

*I*PROMS Conference*
The 4th Virtual Conference on Innovative Production Machines and Systems (IPROMS 2008) will be held on 1st - 14th July, 2008. The extended paper submission deadline is 15th June 2008. More information can be found on the I*PROMS website.

*MINAM Session & Stand at MINAT*
However the MINAM sub-ETP is planning to have a Stand & Session at the MINAT trade fair in Stuttgart. The MINAM session will be on the opening day of the trade fair, Wednesday 7th of October 2008, at the MINAT HotSpots. We would like to invite all partners to participate to this event in Stuttgart. The webpage is here.

*Advance Your Career at Cranfield University*
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* MSc Advanced Materials
* MSc Microsystems and Nanotechnology

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

*19th - 20th June 2008*
4M Sensors & Actuators Division, Cell Handling Workshop, Vienna, Austria. See above.

*20th June 2008*
4M Polymers Division and Plastipolis, Micro manufacturing Workshop, Basle, Switzerland. See event page.

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

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

*23rd - 25th July 2008*
CIRP ICME '08 conference in Naples. 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).

*7th - 11th October 2008*
MINAT 2008, Messe Stuttgart .

*21st - 22nd October 2008 *
The Micro Manufacturing Event, Ricoh Arena, Coventry, UK. MM Live!.