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next meeting of the European RM Platform 16th September 2008 |
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The The 5th RM platform meeting will be held in Ptuj (Slovenia)
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16th September 2008, kindly
hosted by IRI UL - Institute for Innovation and Development of University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Everyone is welcome, where you will have the chance to extend your knowledge
about RM business opportunities and to establish new collaborations with
companies working in the field. Key policy makers will be invited from the
industry, EC, Manufuture and National Contact Points. Here you
can find the flyer with more info.
Major topic is are the European Research Area (ERA), the European Technolical Platforms (ETP) and the Eureka Programm. Also other news will be presented like from
FP7 and its recent approved RM project in a brokering event.
You can find here the
preliminary agenda.
A Registration form can be downloaded here. You can send the completed registration form to
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Parallel events are:
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September 17th – 18th – ICAT 2008 conference
The conference is aimed to the newest development in the fields of Rapid Prototyping, Tooling and Manufacturing with special focus on Medical Applications of Rapid Manufacturing and Businessmodels for RM.
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September 19th 20th - Custom-fit summer school.
“A knowledge-based manufacturing system, established by integrating Rapid Manufacturing, IST and Material Science to improve the Quality of Life of European Citizens through Custom-Fit Products”.
Looking forward to seeing you in Ptuj!!
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PhD Studentship in an Industrial Collaborative Project |
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School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter
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PhD Studentship in an Industrial Collaborative Project: Added Value by Laser Assisted Additive Manufacture AVLAM
(Tax free stipend Rate £12, 940 in 2008-9)
A full time PhD studentship is available for an industrial collaborative project at the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics in the University. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a world leading industrial consortium in the field, and with an excellent Materials Research Group with dynamic research culture.
The studentship is available immediately, covers UK/EU rate tuition fees (£3,500 pa) and provides a tax-free stipend for the three-year duration of the project starting at £12, 940 pa.
Entry requirements include a good Bachelors Degree (minimum upper second class, 2:1 or 1st) or MSc or equivalent Degree in Engineering, Materials, Applied Science, Physics or a related subject.
Informal enquiries to the project supervisor, Dr. Liang Hao, are welcomed at
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and +44 (0)1392 263665.
Applications will be assessed as received and all applicants should follow the standard University postgraduate admissions process (http://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/admissions/index.shtml). The application deadline is 25 July 2008
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Read more...
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Spotlight on: Gideon Levy |
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Gideon Levy
Research Director
Inspire AG
Institute for Rapid Product Development
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"... the European relative weight in RM is gaining power."
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DEARBORN, Mich., May 20, 2008 — The Rapid Technologies and Additive
Manufacturing Community (RTAM) of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
presented Prof. Dr. Gideon Levy with the RTAM Industry Achievement Award at the
RAPID 2008 Conference and Exposition on May 20.
The first-ever recipient of the award is Prof. Dr. Gideon Levy of inspire AG’s
Institute for Rapid Product Development (iRPD). While head of iRPD, when it was
affiliated with FHS St. Gallen-University for Applied Sciences (St. Gallen,
Switzerland), Dr. Levy led a team in the development of new, groundbreaking
selective laser sintering materials. In doing so, he addressed key barriers,
which resulted in the greater utilization of the technology. Users within the
industry are constantly demanding more and more quality materials. Levy’s team
answered that call by making advances that delivered a combination of processing
characteristics and quality.
Here you can read more.
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The 4th RM Platform 15-16th April 2008 was a great success! |
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The 4th RM platform meeting on April 16th was a great success!
It was organised perfectly by Prodintec, and took place together with a Custom-Fit and Spanish platform meeting on April 15th. As much as [180??] peoples attended from 14 countries with 76% from industry, showing that RM is really getting increasing interest!
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The European Commission was represented by Mr Tokamanis, head DG, and
was impressed also, helping to continue the support through FP7. The
four successfully passed FP7 proposals of the 1st RM call were
presented, together with all kind of relevant info about RM in Europe
and the platform itself. There was also a networking workshop in which
all peoples where discussing in small groups on new RM applications in
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All presentations and workshop results can be downloaded here.
Each workshop RM application defined a lead partner and they can be
contacted to follow up these initiatives. So the continuation of this
workshop results is up to the pro-active attitude of stakeholders and
not of the platform management.
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The next RM platform meeting will take place on Tuesday September 16th in Slovenia, together with the RM related conference ICAT 2008 (www.rapiman.net), so mark your agenda!
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