MoldERA

The International Conference on Nanotechnologies and Biomedical Engineering (ICNBME-2011) was held in premiere in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova on 7-8 July 2011, bringing together 150 participants from 17 countries, including Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Switzerland, USA, Japan, Israel, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, etc.

The participants at the event - physicists, chemists, electronic engineers, medical doctors, ICT professionals - discussed the latest achievements in research and applications in the fields of nanotechnologies, nanomaterials and biomedicine. This event was aimed at boosting the exchange of information and initiation of new scientific projects at the intersection of nanotechnology and biomedical engineering.

The International Scientific Forum was opened by Ion Tiginyanu, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and manager of the FP7 MOLD-ERA project. He expressed his gratitude to all guests who have honored the invitation to participate in such a large scale multidisciplinary event, taking place in Chisinau for the first time. Welcome speeches were presented by Mr. Mihai Moldovanu, viceprime-minister of the Republic of Moldova, acad. Gheorghe Duca, president of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Dr. Berthold Johannes, the Ambassador of Germany to Moldova, Mr. Mihai Sleahtitchi, Minister of Education, acad. Ion Bostan, Rector of the Technical University of Moldova, and acad. Ion Ababii, Rector of the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu".

On July 8th took place the related German-Moldovan Workshop on applications of electronic, photonic and biomedical nanotechnology. Dr. Berthold Johannes, the Ambassador of Germany to Moldova, highly appreciated the level of scientific cooperation between the two countries, noting also a number of new possibilities, including those generated by the association of the Republic of Moldova to the EU 7th Framework Programme. The German-Moldovan Workshop was supported financially by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

The ICNBME-2011 was organized by the Academy of Sciences, State University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Nicolae Testemitanu", Technical University of Moldova and the Moldovan Society of Biomedical Engineering. It also served as an excellent opportunity for disseminating information about the MOLD-ERA project, its goals and achievements.

The event was attended by scientists, businessmen and representatives of sponsors. It had a significant resonance in the local mass-media, promoting nanotechnologies and achievements of the Moldovan researchers.

ICNBME-2011 photo gallery

The national television channel JURNAL TV broadcasted the program "The World in the NANO age" with the participation of prof. Ion Tiginyanu, Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Dr. Hans L. Hartangel, Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, honorary member of ASM, and Dr. Hidenori Mimura, Professor at the University of Shizuoka in Japan.

To watch the programme, please visit the website of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova 

Below see the links to other TV channels and national newspapers, with highlights on nanotechnology and ICNBME-2011.

Public National Broadcasting Company TELERADIO MOLDOVA - Programme STOP CADRU 

Public National Broadcasting Company TELERADIO MOLDOVA - ICNBME-2011

PANORAMA newspaper - ICNBME-2011 

TIMPUL newspaper - ICNBME-2011: Interview with prof. Tiginyanu  

PUBLIKA TV channel - ICNBME-2011

MOLDOVA SUVERANA newspaper - ICNBME-2011