AT A GLANCE Project Information
Project Title: DATIS: International System Development of Advanced Technologies Implementation in the Border Regions.
Project Objective: To set up a broad platform for long-term and sustainable cooperation between Russian and Finnish science and business societies in order to enable transfer of advanced technologies and effective use of partners’ competences for implementation of joint projects.
Above: As part of the DATIS project, Lappeenranta University of Technology hopes to strengthen its ties with Russian institutions
and obtain feedback and knowledge to bring their novel concepts nearer to realisation. “To assist participants, we have hosted
project seminars in Lappeenranta, Helsinki and Saint Petersburg. These events provide a great
source of ideas and a valuable
networking opportunity,” reports Muzaev. “They help to attract students to the programme and have encouraged further partnerships. As a result of these activities and the web portal we’ve created, DATIS has helped to establish seven international research projects. Encouragingly, two companies have already been created to market some developments inspired by their experimental findings, which is one of our core objectives.” Seminars that took place at Lappeenranta
University of Technology in 2012 and 2013 provided a networking opportunity for researchers and entrepreneurs in physics- based technologies. It also invited a number of speakers from the Ioffe Institute to talk to the gathered Finnish audience about their achievements in the fields of solid-state physics, nanotechnology and photonics. It is these sorts of opportunities that have
helped to spawn some exciting new start- up companies. One of these is a company dedicated to producing nanostructured materials that are used in electronic equipment. The collaboration has been a success, and they have recently applied for funding from the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, a major nanoscience centre based near Moscow that provides funding to emerging research such as this.
90 Another seminar that took place in Aalto
University was dedicated to problems in the areas of nanotechnology and photonics. Photonics expert Jyrki Saarinen of
the
University of Eastern Finland was invited to present his work on 3D printing technology to the gathered assembly, with speakers from Lappeenranta University, Aalto University and the Ioffe Institute also presenting work.
A lasting legacy “Collaboration
between the DATIS
partners has actually been sustained for more than twenty years,” says Erkki Lahderanta, a coordinator on the project from the Lappeenranta University of Technology. “These experiences provide a helpful
foundation, but we hope that DATIS will strengthen, and also make them more diverse.” To date, some of the potential commercial ventures stimulated by the project have included novel exploitations of nanostructures for electronic applications, and the development of new semiconductors. “Several other commercial projects are in
different stages of development at present,” Muzaev continues. “It will become clear, once DATIS concludes, which of these appear most likely to succeed. However, irrespective of that, these various schemes should continue functioning independently of us in future, and will try to obtain their own sources of funding. We hope this will eventually create numerous durable businesses, which will be an important legacy of the project.”
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Project Duration and Timing: 3 years, December 2011 to December 2014
Project Funding: € 744 620
Project Partners: Ioffe Institute Aalto University Lappeenranta University of Technology
MAIN CONTACT
Professor Erkki Lähderanta Erkki Lähderanta is a professor of technical physics at Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Contact: Tel: +358 29 446 3497 Email:
Erkki.Lahderanta@
lut.fi Web:
http://datis.rinno.ru/ www.datis.pro
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