The German Ministry of Eduction and Research (BMBF) aims to attact young scientists to nanotechnologies with a world-wide contest. BMBF announced on Wednesday in Berlin that the project NanoFutur has been funded for 20 million euros.

The European Commission has just approved a 232.5 million euros public fund to support an R&D project launched by Infineon Technologies together with Fraunhofer Gesellschaft and AMD in Dresden, Germany. The aim of the project is the creation of a platform in the area of nanoelectonics