Activities
Management
- Running of the permanent, legal EPNOE structure (EPNOE Association)
- Marketing and economic intelligence activities
- Relations with industry, establishment and activities of the Business and Industry Club
Research
- Research in three areas: materials, food and health
- Research road map
- Development of new measurement tools
- Helping the bulding of research consortia-answer to EC calls
Education
- Common education curriculum (Master and PhD)
- European education through Erasmus Mondus programmes
- e-Learning lectures
- Running of dedicated courses
- Organisation of conferences
- Translation into English of important papers and presentations on polysaccharides
ACHIEVEMENTS OF EPNOE:
Partners
• 16 academic or research institutions from 9 countries in Europe
• More than 20 industrial members from four continents
• About 120 permanent researchers from the EPNOE institutions involved in the network
Master and PhD students, post-doctoral scientists
• More than 70 PhD students on EPNOE topics
• More than 40 students and Post-docs performed part of their research in another partner’s institution
• 14 PhD students are co-directed by two different EPNOE institution’s scientists
Research and transfer to industry
• Materials / Food / Health-related topics
• EPNOE Road Map built
• In 2009, more than 270 R&D projects between the 16 academic/research partners and companies, for a total
amount of 25M€
• Three EC projects coordinated by EPNOE partners on EPNOE-related topics
Publications and conferences
• More than 40 publications in scientific journals co-signed by at least two different partners in 2009
• More than 200 participations in conferences and seminars in the name of EPNOE in 2009
Education
• Participation to a European university programme “Renewable Bioresources and Biorefineries“ organised by an EPNOE partner
• Establishment by EPNOE of a three-year European university programme on “Sustainable Utilization of
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Translations of national language conference talk and poster titles into English
• More than 800 translations from about 150 conferences, in 13 different languages (private web site)
International conferences sponsored by EPNOE and/or sessions (co-)organised by EPNOE partners
• 15 in the time period 2007-2009, in Europe, China, India and USA
Web sites (public and private)
• More than 1300 pages
• More than 600 documents posted