Official visit / events in IMT 2012

	Prof. Alena Pietrikova and Dr. Slavomir Kardos (Technical University Kosice, Slovakia) in the frame of the bilateral project Romania-Slovakia (2011-2012) “Time and stress degradation phenomena in lead-free solder joints”, 19 April 2012 The main goals of the visit were to evaluate with Romanian partners from IMT-Bucharest the current stage of the bilateral project (reliability testing, failure analysis) and to identify future joint projects involving the use of the reliability equipment of IMT-Bucharest. Also, the Slovak specialists visited the “Grey Area” of IMT-Bucharest, in order to find out other possible cooperation subjects.
	Student Delegation of the "Electronic engineering" and "Electromechanical engineering" from Xios university college Limburg in Belgium, 6 March 2012 The purpose of this visit was to broaden the general technologic knowledge of the students and to give them a flavor of how Universities, research facilities and companies work abroad.
	Consortium Meeting Project “Enabling MEMS-MMIC Technology for cost-effective multifunctional RF-System Integration" (FP7 STREP MEMS-4-MMIC (2008-2012)), 1-2 March 2012, IMT Bucharest Local organizer: IMT-Bucharest, Dr. Dan Neculoiu Hassan Maher, OMMIC, France Brice Grandchamp, OMMIC, France Mastersson Jan, SAAB AB, Sweden Baggen Rens, IMST GmbH, Germany Simon Winfried, IMST GmbH, Germany Nathalie Rolland, IEMN, France Paul-Alain Rolland, IEMN, France Michel Fryziel, IEMN, France Markku Lahti, VTT, Finland Pekka Rantakari, VTT, Finland Robert Malqwist, FOI, Sweden
	Photo gallery:
	Consortium Meeting Project "Smart integration of GaN & SiC high power electronics for industrial and RF applications" (FP7 INTEGRATED Project SMARTPOWER (2011- 2014)) , 27th-28th February 2012, IMT-Bucharest Local organizer: IMT-Bucharest, Dr. Alexandru Muller Mohamad Abo Ras, Berliner Nanotest und Design GmbH, Germany Hermann Oppermann, Fraunhofer Institute IZM Berlin, Germany Wilhelm Maurer, Infineon Technologies AG, Germany Radoslava Mitova, Schneider Electric Industries SAS, France Elodie Leveugle, Thales Research and Technologies SA, France Afshin Ziaei, Thales Research and Technologies SA, France Bernhard Wunderle, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Daniel May, Technical University of Chemnitz, Germany Johan Liu, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Kertesz Philippe, Thales Systèmes Aéroportés SA, France Lilei Ye, SHT Smart High Tech AB, Sweden Andras Poppe, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Tristan Caroff, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives – LITEN, France Tobias Xhonneux, TAIPRO Engineering SA, Belgium
	Photo gallery:

Selected official visit/ events in IMT (2007-2011)

Officials, for general strategic cooperation:

• Dr. Aravind Padmanabhan, Director of Global Technology at Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions, with chief representatives from Honeywell Romania, September 23, 2011.
• Prof. Olivier Durand, INSA FOTON (France), September 16 , 2011.
• Officials delegation of Rigaku Corporation (Japan), Japan, September 16, 2011.
• Dr. Stefan Weiers, the European Commission, May 25, 2011.
• Dr. Romolo Marcelli, CNR-IMM Roma, April 5, 2011.
• Dr. Katerina Tsagaraki, FORTH Heraklion, April 4, 2011.
• Prof. Teodor Petrescu, Dean of the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, March 17, 2011
• Dr. Pyeong Rak CHOI, President of Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), March 14, 2011.
• Dr. Mihail Roco, Senior Advisor for Nanotechnology at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a key architect of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), January 20, 2011.
• Prof. Zoran V. Popovic, Head of Center for Solid State Physics and New Materials, Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia, September 14, 2010.
• Dr. Michael Neuhaeuser, Director of Infineon Technologies Romania (IFRo)
• Dr. Aravind Padmanabhan, Director of Global Technology at Honeywell Automation & Control Solutions, August 6, 2010.
• Prof. Adrian Curaj, President of ANCS,with Prof. Dimitar Zdravkov Georgiev, Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Education and Research, July 20, 2010.
• Prof. Andreas Wild, Executive Director of the ENIAC Joint Undertaking, April 20, 2010
• Renault Tehnologie Roumanie, February 24, 2010.
• Dr. Francesca Grassia, Deputy Director for European Research Area-East, January 25, 2010
• Dr. Michel Farine, Attaché pour la Coopération Universitaire et Scientifique, Service de Coopération et d'Action Culturelle, Ambassade de France en Roumanie, January 25, 2010
• Dr. Fabio Coccetti, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, January 25, 2010
• Dr. Georgios Katalagarianakis, European Commission, January 18, 2010.
• Prof. Ionel Haiduc, President of the Romanian Academy, March 12, 2009.
• Mr. Gheorghe Pogea, Minister of Public Finances, with other officials - Prof. Alexandru Aldea, vice president of ANCS, March 11, 2009.
• Prof. Sorin Dimitriu, President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bucharest,  February 27, 2009.
• Prof. Sorin Dimitriu, President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry Bucharest, February 16, 2009.
• Prof. Marius Enachescu, vice president of ANCS, August 6, 2009.
• Mr. Peter C. Nogy, Eastern Europe Sourcing manager, EADS Asturium GmbH, May 7, 2009.

Larger delegations in scientific cooperation events:

• Thales Research and Technology (France), Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (France), TopGaN Ltd. (Poland), Foundation for Research & Technology-Hellas (FORTH) (Greece), Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale Univ Paris Sud, Chalmers University (Sweden), Uppsala University (Sweden), November 21-22, 2011.
• XLIM –Limoges and University Limoges (France), July 11, 2011.
• Wroklaw Institute of Technology (Poland), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary),  The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Institute of Electron Technology (ITE) (Poland), National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos IMEL (Greece),  INESC Investigação e Desenvolvimento (Portugal), Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science (MFA) (Hungary), Materials Innovation Institute (The Netherlands), WESZTA-T Industrial and Trade Ltd. (Hungary), Volvo technology Co (Sweden), NXP Semiconductors Netherlands BV, June 16-17, 2011.
• Kapodestrian University of Athens (Greece), March 17-18, 2011.
• Industrial  Institute  of Electronics, Warsaw, Kielce  University  of  Technology (Poland), February 15, 2011.
• FlexPAET – 2nd Annual Meeting, October 13-14, 2010 - Sinaia
  Participants: Fraunhofer IPT-Germany; IMT-Bucharest; Oy Modines, Finland; CEA-Liten, France; Zumtobel Austria; INNOVALIA -Spain; DataPixel - Spain; Eitzenberger Luftlagertechnik Germany; JFA Präzisionswerk Germany; IPU –Denmark; Gaggione SASFrance; Oy Modines, Finland; Fundacion ASCAM, Spain,
• Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute-KERI, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), February 23, 2010.
• European Space Agency (ESA) and Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), July 8, 2009 - Mr. Pedro Baptista (ESTEC), Head and Secretary of the ESA Expert Team,  Head of the Office to support New Member States, ESA; Mr. Bernard Zufferey (ESTEC), Head of the PECS Office, ESA; Mr. Miquel Pastor Vinader (HQ), Industrial Policy Officer, ESA; Mr. Joerg Callies (ESTEC),  Head of the EO Technology Coordination Section, ESA; Ms. Anabelle Fonseca Colomb (HQ), International Relations, ESA; Mr. Jorgen Sandberg (ESTEC), Head of Technology Projects Division, Department of Telecommunication, ESA; Mr. Marius Piso, President and CEO of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), Head of Delegation, ROSA; Mrs. Anca Racheru, International Relations, Space and Aeronautics, ROSA; Mugurel Balan  - Junior Researcher, ROSA; Marius Trusculescu - Junior Researcher, ROSA; Claudiu Dragasanu - Junior Researcher, ROSA; Alexandru Pandele - Junior Researcher, ROSA).
• Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Research Centre for Nanotechnology Applied to Engineering - SAPIENZA-CNIS (Italy), Technische Universiteit Delft – Department of Precision and Microsystem  Engineering (The Netherlands), Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse (France), Università degli Studi di Salerno – Center NANO_MATES (Italy), Swedish Defense Research  Agency, Department of Sensor Technology (Sweden), Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) (Italy), Institute for Solid State Physics, (Latvia), Smoltek AB (Sweden), January 21-23, 2009.
• Flexpaet - Topical Meeting Metrology and Algorithm development, Bucharest, December 3-4   2008
  Participants: Fraunhofer IPT-Germany; IMT-Bucharest; Oy Modines, Finland; CEA-Liten, France; INNOVALIA -Spain; DataPixel - Spain.
• Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (France), December 3, 2008.
• SPINTEC, CEA/CNRS Grenoble (France), Tyndall Cork (Ireland), Freescale Semiconductor, Sensonor Technologies AS (Norway), September 17-18 , 2008.
• Forth Heraklion (Greece), September 15, 2008.