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     VICIM |
Dear Colleagues, The EU is funding a Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology! Brussels, March 2002 The Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology (VICIM) funded by the European Union has taken up operations. This European network of experts in chemometrics and metrology wants to enable industrial clients to face the challenges in the analysis of today's complex chemical measurement data and to ensure the quality of measurement results. The integration of metrology and chemometrics in one virtual institute offers unique opportunities for creating new, fruitful synergies between the two disciplines. Prof. D.L. Massart, Head of the Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, took the initiative for the institute, which comprises 13 centers from all over Europe. They include a broad range of competencies concerning both scientific methods as well as fields of applications, which are as diverse as food control and petrochemistry. The VICIM will offer a broad range of services to the industrial community ranging from - General and customized courses at the introductory and advanced level in several aspects of chemometrics and metrology such as: method validation, visualisation, modelling, etc. - Precompetitive research and development through industrial consortia - Competitive (commissioned) research in the agro-food, pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical and related sectors - Hosting of industrial fellows - Distance learning - Consultancy - Metrological support of standardisation bodies - Guidelines and software A scientific advisory board of industrial partners headed by Prof. Bernard Vandeginste, Unilever Research and Development, Vlaardingen (NL), emphasizes the orientation towards the needs and requirements of industrial customers. After an initial three year's funding by the EU, the VICIM will become a self-supporting and independent Research Foundation. Partners of the Virtual Institute for Chemometrics and Industrial Metrology: - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (VUB, Prof. D.L. Massart) - Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg (KVL, Prof. L. Noergaard) and Optima X, Koge, Denmark (Dr. R. Bro) - Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland (LUT, Prof. P.Minkkinen) - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, France (INRA, Prof. M. Feinberg) - Institut fuer Chemo- und Biosensorik (ICB, Dr. J. von Frese) and Westf. Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany (WWU, Prof. K. Cammann) - Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands (KUN, Prof. L. Buydens) - Pattern Recognition Systems A.S., Bergen (PRS, Dr. R. Arneberg), and the University of Bergen, Norway (UiB, Prof. O.M. Kvalheim) - National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia (NIC, Prof. J. Zupan) - Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain (URV, Prof. F.X. Rius) - Università di Milano-Bicocca and Talete SRL., Milano, Italy (Prof. R. Todeschini) - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (KTH) - Nederlands Meetinstituut, Delft, The Netherlands, (NMi VSL, Dr. A. van der Veen) - Laboratory Government Chemist, Teddington, UK (LGC, Dr. S. Ellison) VICIM secretariat: Dr. Catherine Perrin Dept. FABI / VICIM Vrije Universiteit Brussel Laarbeeklaan 103 B-1090 Brussel Belgium e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +32 2 477 45 13 Fax: +32 2 477 47 35 Further information we will make available at: http://www.quimica.urv.es/quimio/vicim/ On behalf of the VICIM (with best regards), Juergen von Frese ([email protected]) |