In September 2016, the NANOSENS team organised the Strategic Workshop dedicated to materials science, microsensors for engineering and medical applications and biosensors.

The event was held on 20-21 September 2016 in National Institute of R&D for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania. More than 20 scientists from Romania and other EU countries attended the workhop. During two days, a number of presentations have been delivered by Romanian scientisis from NIRDTP and NIMP Bucharest, as well as by their colleagues from University of Glasgow (UK) and ICMM-CSIC (Spain). In particular, the latest developments and identification of key research and innovation topics in materials science, microsensors for engineering and medical applications and biosensors have been discussed.

The presentations delivered during the workshop:

• Magnetic materials for Electro-Magnetic Shielding applications in engineering and medicine (Gabriel Ababei, NIRDTP, Iasi, Romania)
• Nanoarchitectonics of Nanoparticles of Metals and/or Metal oxides and Layered Double Hydroxides: Fabrication, Properties and Applications (Gabriela Carja, Technical University of Iasi, Romania)
• Nanoparticles and nanoclusters versatile synthesis methods: pathway towards integrated devices for nanosensing and biomedical applications (Ovidiu Crisan, National Institute for Materials Physics, Magurele, Romania)
• PERMANET MAGNETS: Materials and Medical Applications (Marian Grigoras, NIRDTP, Iasi, Romania)
• Magnetic nanostructures for bio-medical sensing applications. A general perspective and some achievements at NIMP (V. Kuncser, National Institute for Materials Physics, Magurele, Romania)
• Current funding areas (Stephen McVitie, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK)
• PAPER-BASED NANOBIOSENSORS: Design and applications (Arben Merkoçi, Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group, ICREA & Institut Català de Nanociéncia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Barcelona, Spain)
• Laboratory of Microsystems for Biomedical and Environmental Applications (Dr. Carmen Moldovan, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies, Romania)
• MAGNETISM OF INDIVIDUAL Co and CoFe BASED NANOWIRES (Manuel Vazquez, Institute of Materials Science of Madrid, CSIC, Spain)
• Environment-friendly magnetic nanomaterials: from synthesis to applications (M. Neamtu*, C. Nadejde*, V.-D. Hodoroaba**, R. J. Schneider**, G. Ababei*** and U. Panne**,****)

*Interdisciplinary Research Department – Field Science, ‘Al. I. Cuza’ Univ., Iasi, Romania
**BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
***National Institute of Research and Development for Technical Physics, Iasi, Romania
****Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany