2nd INL-MIT Meeting

On 22 November, a meeting was held at the premises of the Forum Ciência Viva 2008 (text in Portuguese) in Lisbon between senior figures from the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, and MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the aim of establishing an agreement concerning the preparatory work necessary for an INL-MIT Collaboration Programme, with long term strategic objectives and joint activities in the short term, thus continuing the contacts started at the 1st INL-MIT Meeting which was held on 31 October at MIT, in Cambridge, USA .

INL was represented at the meeting by the President of its Board, Luis Magalhães, its Director-General, José Rivas, and the Deputy Director-General, Pedro Freitas, and MIT was represented by the Dean of the School of Engineering, Subra Suresh,  and the Director of the MIT-Portugal Programme at MIT, Daniel Roos.