The PEND group has been invited to participate in the European Commission Graphene Flagship project. This invitation recognizes the recent results by the group on spintronics and, more specifically, those involving graphene. The participation in this project will help strengthen the resources of the group to work on graphene spintronics as well as the collaboration with the main teams working in this field across Europe.
About the EC Graphene Flagship (more on this link)
The Graphene Flagship is a Future and Emerging Technology Flagship by the European Commission.
With a budget of €1 billion, the Graphene Flagship represent a new form of joint, coordinated research on an unprecedented scale, forming Europe’s biggest ever research initiative.
The Graphene Flagship is tasked with bringing together academic and industrial researchers to take graphene from the realm of academic laboratories into European society in the space of 10 years, thus generating economic growth, new jobs and new opportunities.
The core consortium consists of over 150 academic and industrial research groups in 23 countries. In addition, the project has a growing number of associated members that will be incorporated in the scientific and technological work packages from the Horizon 2020 phase (1 April 2016 – 31 March 2018).