6th Meeting of the INL Board

The Board of the INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, meeting in Madrid on 16 June 2009, ratified the research collaboration agreement between the INL and MIT (see INL and MIT launch programme to recruit senior researchers), analysed the proposal to open calls for scientific equipment, examined the 2008 financial report , discussed the progress report presented by the Director-General, and noted the state of preparation of the draft INL rules of procedure.

The INL, which is currently being built in Braga, is a joint Portuguese – Spanish initiative. It is the first international scientific organisation on the Iberian Peninsula and the first, and thus far the only, nanotechnology scientific organisation with international legal status.

The Board comprises: Luis Magalhães, President of The Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), João Sentieiro, President of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), Carolina Rego Costa, Jurist, Assistant to the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, on behalf of Portugal, and José Manuel Labastida, Secretary-General for Science and Technology Policy, Montserrat Torné, Director-General for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Innovation and Science, and Fernando Briones, Research Professor at the Higher Scientific Research Council Agency, representing Spain. The Director-General of the INL is Prof. José Rivas (text in Portuguese)  and the Deputy Director-General is Prof. Paulo Freitas (text in Portuguese).