Newsletter 1/2007

Whether it’s biotechnology, nano technology, environmental technology or renewable energy – the sub-regions of CENTROPE are internationally competitive in high-tech disciplines. Did you know that the European Center for Renewable Energy is located in Burgenland, that a competence laboratory for e-waste recycling was inaugurated in Győr, that a centre of excellence in the field of cancer therapy is coming into being in Wiener Neustadt, that Europe’s biggest forest biomass-fuelled power plant is situated in Vienna or that a biotechnology cluster is currently being developed in the Czech Republic? All this and many other exciting projects will be presented in this newsletter issue.

We wish you a pleasant read!

Your CENTROPE Consortium

Content of this issue

  • High-tech region CENTROPE
  • Biotechnology – A key issue for the future
  • Nano technology – Tiny particles on the vanguard
  • Renewable energy as an economic driving force
  • High-tech from nature
  • Excellence in recycling
  • Project news: Green light for new CENTROPE pilot projects
  • CENTROPE suggestions: research and co-operation financing