University of Leoben: new “Research Studio” for the processing of metallic residues

In the support programme "Research Studios Austria" initiated by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour (BMWA), 14 new research establishments, 6 of them in the Province of Styria, have been incorporated. The aim of these programmes is to convert basic knowledge into prototypes in order quickly to supply the Austrian economy with competitive advantage. Altogether the BMWA supports the programme “Research Studios Austria" with around 8.6 million euro for the next three years. They will be handled as an advancement training programme by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG).

Here is a list of the 14 Research Studios:
University of Leoben, Institute for Nonferrous Metallurgy: Special metal recovery from waste containing such metals

University of Leoben, Institute of Materials Science and Testing of Plastics: Poly-Sens – Intelligent highly developed measuring methods for complex production processes for plastics engineering

University of Leoben – Institute for Materials Engineering: SurfEng - Advanced surface engineering for development and application of functional components

Graz University of Technology, Institute for Paper, Pulp and Fibre Technology: μSTRUCSCOP – prototype for the investigation and visualisation of 3D microstructures of materials and biomedical compounds.

Joanneum Research: CASE - Clinically Applicable System for Efficient in vivo testing of drugs at target

Joanneum Research: MVM² - Machine Vision Meets Mobility - rotational position sensing for autonomous vehicles

Vienna University of Technology: VibSense – Optical, chemical sensors for environmental analysis processes

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute for Pervasive Computing: DISPLAYS - pervasive display systems

Upper Austrian Research GmbH: RS-IND-OCT - Research Studio for Industrial Optical Coherence Tomography

Austrian Research Centers GmbH: ARC Seibersdorf RHP - Rapid Hot Pressing - powder technology for the rapid production of high-performance materials

Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft mbH: PPI - Public Private Interoperability

University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien: COORDES - Coordinated Test, Debugging, and Diagnosis in Distributed Embedded Systems

Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences Research & Development Ltd.: NICE - designing Natural user Interfaces for Collaborative Environments

Austrian Research Centers GmbH, ARC Seibersdorf: RS-DME- Research Studio Digital Memory Engineering

Source: ECO, http://www.bmwa.gv.at%20/ 30/06/2008