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Euspen
Euspen is the “European society for precision engineering and nanotechnology”. It was established to provide a coherent and dynamic collaborative thrust for industry, research institutes, universities and leading practitioners to meet, network and mutually benefit from the promotion of the ultra precision technologies that are destined to be one of the dominating aspects of economic and societal development during the next 10 years. Through the organisation of conferences, workshops, training events, efficient network multimedia and international publications, the foremost aims of euspen are to:
facilitate intensive information exchange between interdisciplinary technologies optimise industrial growth become an efficient catalyst for the design of innovative products create new and transnational industrial and academic R&D collaborations promote awareness of nano, micro and ultra precision engineering Euspen, as a society, was initiated and developed by funding from the European Community under the “Competitive and Sustainable Growth Programme” of FP5 as a “Concerted Action”. Membership to this society opened at the first euspen International Conference in May 1999. A further objective of this society was to become financially self-supporting by the end of the 3-year EC project-funding period. To meet this objective, the society council has now legally registered the euspen headquarters as a “non-for-profit” Ltd company of charitable status, with no shareholders, resulting in the formation of euspen Ltd. Promotion of the aims and activities of euspen is through its council (elected annually by its membership), the UK headquarters, and national nodes. Assistance is also maintained by the EC through the project VISIONONLINE. This initiative primarily aids euspen in providing the community with intensive, high calibre and cost effective training. More information on euspen can be found on http://www.euspen.com