NEWSLETTER - DECEMBER 2004

AND THE WINNER IS...

In memory of the outstanding contributions of the late MEDEA+ Chairman Jean-Pierre Noblanc, the MEDEA+ Board decided to honour the most prominent project in terms of advancement in innovation and/or R&D by awarding the annual 'Jean-Pierre Noblanc Award for Excellence' to a MEDEA+ project. The winner of the first award was announced during the MEDEA+ Forum 2004.

26 MEDEA+ Applications and Technology projects were found eligible to apply for the 2004 award.
Main criteria to assess the winning project included:

  • Innovation level of project results
  • Exploitation potential
  • Anticipated market impacts
  • Specific impacts on European economy
  • Quality and efficiency of project
  • Co-operation and management
  • Effectiveness of resource spending

A standardised matrix of points attributable for each of the main criteria and leading as such to a scoring per project has been defined and used by the two Steering Groups Applications and Technologies. The MEDEA+ Support Group will carry out the final evaluation.

Finally there were four projects in the running:

  • A106 INCA
  • A302 Espass-IS
  • T123 CRESCENDO
  • T201 CMOS - 0.1 µm

In case you are interested to know more about the projects, you will find their Project Profiles and Project Result Sheets, for those projects already ended on our website www.medeaplus.org, under the section 'Projects'.


It was exciting up until the MEDEA+ Forum dinner, when the Chairman, Arthur van den Poel, announced "and the winner is..."

... and the winner is... T201 - CMOS Logic 0.1 µm and below

In memory of the late MEDEA+ Chairman, the most innovative and sustainable project, so far carried out in MEDEA+, has been honoured. The trophy was awarded to a Technology Project, 'T201 CMOS logic 0.1 µm and below' on the development of next generation basic CMOS process. Under the leadership of Guillermo Bomchil, STMicroelectronics, main European semiconductor and equipment companies together with leading institutes have been co-operating and achieving essential European breakthroughs (Air Liquide, Aixtron, Bull, Epichem oxides and nitrides, IMEC, INPG/CNRS, Jobin Yvon, Leica Microsystem Lithography, LETI, LTM/CNRS, Philips, STMicroelectronics). Only 15 months later, the technological process has been introduced in manufacturing lines.