Report
of the Visiting and Partnering Session
The 2nd edition of the Romanian-Austrian Science Day, organized underthe auspices of The Romanian Minister for Education, Research and Innovation and The Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research has taken place in Iasi, Romania, on 14 May 2009.
The main objective of the Romanian-Austrian Science Day was to stimulate and intensify the co-operation in science, research and higher education between Romania and Austria.
The specific objectives of the Romanian-Austrian Science Day:
- to promote or initiate new and ongoing cooperation activities,
- to facilitate meetings between potential academic and research partners from Romania and Austria,
- to enhance and deepen the contacts in higher education and research between Romanian and Austrian universities and/or research organizations,
- to explore possibilities for developing new partnerships and deepening existing collaboration in joint study programmes, projects and research activities.
The research topics considered within the Visiting & Partnering session:
- Health,
- Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Biotechnology
- Information & communication technologies
- Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies
- Energy
- Environment (including Climate Change)
During the Visiting & Partnering session representatives from Austrian universities and research organizations have had the opportunity of site visits to the following universities and research institutes in Iasi:
Visiting & Partnering Session
Members of delegation Name/ organization:
- Christine Buzeczki Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
- Gisela Zieger Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
- Horvat Manfred Federal Viena University of Technology, Austria
- Abdelhamid Bouchachia University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Ioan Toma University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Dumitru Roman University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Semantic Technology Institute,Austria
- Radu Rogojanu Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- Michael Neuhhaeuser Infineon Technologies, Romania
- Andrei Sarmasanu Infineon Technologies, Romania
Fields of interest: ICT
Faculties/ Departments visited:
Faculty of Computer Science (FCS), Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi
Remark. The first part of the visit was a joint meeting with Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technology, where the main research and education activities of the Faculty of Computer Science (FCS) were presented by Vlad Radulescu.
The second part of the visit, at FCS, was more research-oriented and included two technical presentations: Innsbruck Semantic Technology Institute (ISTI) and FCS (Iasi).
New cooperation activities/ joint study programme/joint projects/ joint research activities:
- Joint dissertation projects FCS-ISTI. ISTI proposes dissertation subjects for FCS master students and the interested students will have a documentation & training period at ISTI, in order to accomplish the dissertation-related project.
- Invited lecturers from both sides.
- ISTI is interested to offer post-doctoral visiting positions for people who graduated the PhD program at FCS.
- Bilateral research cooperation on automated reasoning in Semantic Web. The idea is to combine the experience of FCS in developing automated proving tools and the Semantic Web-based framework developed at ISTI.
- FCS and University of Klagenfurt agreed to start an Erasmus exchange program for bith bachelor and master students.
Members of delegation Name/ organization:
- Christine Buzeczki Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
- Gisela Zieger Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria
- Horvat Manfred Federal Viena Universitz of Technology, Austria
- Abdelhamid Bouchachia University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Ioan Toma University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
- Dumitru Roman University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Semantic Technology Institute, Austria
- Radu Rogojanu Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- Michael Neuhhaeuser Infineon Technologies, Romania
- Andrei Sarmasanu Infineon Technologies, Romania
Fields of interest: ICT, Environment, Biotechnologies
Faculties/Departments visited:
- Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunication and Information Technology
Integrated Circuits Design Laboratory
Signals Circuits and Systems Laboratory
- Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection
Water and Wastewater Treatment Laboratory
Biotechnologies and Renewable Resources Laboratory
High Performance Multifunctional Polymeric Materials For Medical, Microelectronic, Energy/Information Storage, Environmental Protection Laboratory
Molecular Weight Analyses Laboratory
Multisynthesis Laboratory
Molecular Modeling Laboratory
- Faculty of Hydrotechnics and Environmental Engineering
Soil Science Laboratory
Hydraulics laboratory
Hidrology Laboratory
Metrologic Laboratory
- Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering
Robotics and Computer Internet Manufacturing Laboratory
High-performance Computing Laboratory
Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Mobile Intelligent Robots Laboratory
New cooperation activities/joint study program/ joint projects/ joint research activities:
In the domain of ICT:
Infineon has expressed a strong interest in:
- finding methods for developing university-industry joint projects
- applying for structural funds for scientific cooperation
- developing scientific research within Master, PhD and internship programs
University of Klagenfurt has expressed its interest in:
- collaborating on GRID Computing and Artificial Intelligence
The Semantic Technology Institute, Innsbruck is interested in:
- collaboration on Web Technologies
The Technical University of Vienna is interested in:
- collaboration in education and research on computer Graphics and Image Processing
In the domains of Environment and Biotechnology representatives of the Ministry of Science and Research have expressed the interest in:
- developing scientific research within Master, PhD programs
- facilitating institutional contacts and possibilities of bilateral cooperation
Members of delegation Name/ organization:
- Ionut Serban HET Hochleistungs-Eisenbahn - und Transporttechnik Entwicklungs-GmbH
- Camelia Serban HET Hochleistungs-Eisenbahn - und Transporttechnik Entwicklungs-GmbH
- Michael Baldauf Nature Park Zirbitzkogel-Grebenzen
- Meinhard Breiling Technick Tourismus Landschaft
- Anca Ghinescu National Authority for Scientific Research Bucharest
Fields of interest: Agriculture, Enviromenment, Agrotourism, Piscicultural bio-technologies
Faculties/ Departments visited:
Faculties:
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Horticulture
Faculty of Animal Husbandry
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Laboratories:
Laboratory for soil and plant analysis
Laboratory for quality of wine and alcoholic beverages
Laboratory for microbiology and food biosecurity
Advanced Visualization Center : 5 laboratories
New cooperation activities/joint study program/ joint projects/ joint research activities:
New cooperation activities:
- Development of the Agrotourism in the mountain region - Vatra Dornei (Meinhard Breiling)
- New solution for mechanization (Camelia Serban and Ionut Serban )
- Nature Park (Michael Baldauf)
- Preservation of piscicultural genotype (Meinhard Breiling)
Joint study programme:
- Development of the Agrotourism in the mountain region Vatra Dornei (Meinhard Breiling)
Joint projects:
- Development of the Agrotourism in the mountain region - Vatra Dornei (Meinhard Breiling)
- New solution for mechanization (Camelia Serban and Ionut Serban)
Members of delegation Name/ organization:
- Guenther Herdin AGNION Technologies GmbH
Fields of interest:
Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies; Energy.
Department visited:
Magnetic Materials and Devices Department
New cooperation activities/ joint study programme/joint projects/ joint research activities:
The representatives of NIRDTP Iasi had an exploratory discussion with Dr. Guenther Herdin on different sensing applications based on microwires or nanowires, cochlear implants using magnetostrictive nanowires as sensing elements, hydrogen storage materials.
Dr. Guenther Herdin promised that he will inform his colleagues and the Board Members of his company on the RDI activities developed at NIRDTP Iasi, in order to initiate possible collaborations in the future. Also, our representatives agreed that the know-how, the patented products and technologies developed at NIRDTP Iasi, and the extended experimental facilities can constitute the starting point for further collaborations with AGNION Technologies GmbH or other companies they are collaborating with.
Members of delegation Name/ organization:
- H.E. Dr. Martin Eichtinger Austrian Ambassador in Romania
- Radu Rogojanu TissueGnostics GmbH
- Gabriel Stătescu TissueGnostics GmbH
- Haisan Daniel TissueGnostics Romania
Fields of interest: Health, Medical Bioengineering, Molecular medicine, Dentistry
H.E. Ambassador Dr. Martin Eichtinger has visited all Faculties in the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Iaşi and promised to our vice rector. Prof. Dr. Dragoş Pieptu, support for further contacts with universities of medicine in Austria.
Faculties/ Departments visited:
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Dentistry : Dental Teaching Centre. Prof. Dr. Norina Forna
Faculty of Bioengineering: Laboratory of Bioelectronomagnetism, Prof. Dr. D. Zaharia
Platform for Physiopharmacological and clinical research on oncologic and nononcologic pain mechanisms. Prof. Dr. O.C. Mungiu
Interdisciplinary platform for molecular medicine. Prof. Dr. E. Carasevici
New cooperation activities/ joint study programme/joint projects/ joint research activities:
Poster presentation by the members of the two research platforms Platform for Physiopharmacological and clinical research on oncologic and nononcologic pain mechanisms. Prof. Dr. O.C. Mungiu
Interdisciplinary platform for molecular medicine. Prof. Dr. E. Carasevici
Poster presentation by the members of the Faculty of Bioengineering
Faculty of Dentistry : Dental Teaching Centre. Prof. Dr. Norina Forna
Joint research activity - Cooperation between TissueGnostics GmbH and Romania and the Interdisciplinary platform for molecular medicine – common research interests regarding cell shape detection and identification on tissue stained sections.
Observation:
Requirement for more specialized personnel in health and medical biotechnologies, higher education, university level teaching, during these partnering days.
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