The ageing population and related increase in chronic diseases put considerable pressure on both the healthcare system and the society, resulting in an unsustainable rise of healthcare costs. As a result there is an urgent need to improve efficiency of care and reduce hospitalisation time in order to control cost and increase quality of life.

Addressing this need, medical applications need to become less invasive and improve disease detection, diagnosis and treatment using advanced imaging and sensing techniques.

The project GraNitE is funded by MIUR in the framework of the European program "FET Flagship ERA-NET" (FLAG-ERA), which coordinates the integration of national/regional research into the work plans of the EU FET Flagship projects ("Graphene" and "Human Brain Project").

The aim of MANSiC project was to promote a multidisciplinary training network for young researchers based on the development of 3C-SiC technology. Indeed, this cubic polytype of SiC was for long set apart due to the lack of adequate substrate so that the heteroepitaxial layers were far from device quality. The research activity was focused on the development of a full technology based on high quality 3C-SiC material grown by members of this consortium, using non-conventional growth techniques developed by some of the partners.

The project NetFISiC (Training NETwork on Functional Interfaces for SiC) was a Marie-Curie Initial Training Network. The main scientific objective of NetFISiC was to provide Silicon Carbide material (of various polytypes) with improved and adequate functional interfaces for getting a step forward in electronic devices performance. Research efforts will be dedicated to solve the problems faced by important devices like MOSFETs and Schottky diodes. Fundamental research have been performed both on the growth aspect and on innovating devices.

The project Ambition Power operated in the field of Energy/Energy Saving within the national program PON “Ricerca e Competitività 2007-2013”. The project was focused in the field of power electronics, i.e., in a specific sector which include about 30% of the semiconductor world production.

The general objective of the project was the development of key enabling technologies for power devices and modules with a high energy efficiency, through the following main activities:

-Development of technologies and devices in SiC, GaN and advanced Si IGBTs

EMMA is a FP6 - ICT European project, grant agreemnet n. 33751

This project will investigate the feasibility of emerging new non-volatile memory concepts based on resistive-switching materials for enabling new mass-storage memory systems.