{ "meta": { "api_type": "NWO Projects API", "version": "1.0.2", "licence": { "name": "CC0 1.0 Universal", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0", "description": "To the extent possible under law, all copyright and related or neighbouring rights have been waived worldwide to the data made available through this API." }, "documentation": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14918287", "release_date": "2025-08-20T00:00:00", "funder": "https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003246", "ror_id": "https://ror.org/04jsz6e67", "date": "2026-11-05T00:00:00", "count": 1, "per_page": 100, "pages": 1, "page": 1 }, "projects": [ { "project_id": "184.033.104", "title": "NanoLabNL Quantum Electrical Engineering (QuEEn)", "funding_scheme_id": 1950, "funding_scheme": "Grootschalige Wetenschappelijke Infrastructuur(GWI) 2013 BOO", "department": "Exacte en Natuurwetenschappen", "sub_department": "Exacte en Natuurwetenschappen", "start_date": "2014-07-01T00:00:00", "end_date": "2020-11-30T00:00:00", "reporting_year": 2014, "summary_nl": "Quantum effects have long been considered too fragile to exploit in real-world applications—but the last decade has turned that assumption on its head. Science and industry have developed new quantum materials and devices that are robust and stable up to room temperature. Nanotechnology—the science of manipulating the quantum world—will be the driving technological force in science, industry, and society through 2050. Thanks to its cohesive nanotech landscape, the Netherlands makes a significant contribution to nanotech breakthroughs—but the field is evolving at dizzying speed. To keep its position as a global nanotech leader, the Netherlands must keep investing in state-of-the-art facilities. The Netherlands is unique in its approach to innovation. By interweaving research, development, and infrastructure at the policy level, the Dutch government ensures a coherent system that stimulates collaboration and innovation: the NWOnano initiative fundamental research & applications the NanoLabNL initiative infrastructure the NanoNextNL initiative innovative research & development NanoLabNL www.nanolabnl.nl) is the Netherlands’ national facility for nanotechnological research. NanoLabNL offers the use of its equipment, techniques, and expertise to universities, research institutes, start-up companies, and industry at four locations in the Netherlands. Spread across the country, these locations complement one another in their fields of expertise, to offer the widest possible spectrum of facilities. Each location offers a range of basic and expert techniques (see Figure 1 above). The basic techniques provide a general infrastructure suitable for common nanofabrication activities while keeping the geographical barrier as low as possible, while expert techniques are unique facilities and expertise found nowhere else in the country. This geographically distributed and complementary approach is a deliberate—and unique—choice that has proven extremely effective. An expert international review committee concluded in the fall of 2007 that investments into an infrastructure facility such as NanoLabNL are critical to build and maintain a successful nanotechnology research program.1 Established companies and start-ups alike depend on NanoLabNL’s facilities to carry out vital research and\n\ndevelopment. At the national policy level, the high-tech systems and materials (HTSM) top sector explicitly names NanoLabNL as an integral part of its roadmap.2 The Dutch government and NanoLabNL’s partners have affirmed this internationally recognized importance through ongoing financial commitment since 2004. As we will show in sections A1 and A2, NanoLabNL has provided an excellent return on this investment, achieving all its stated objectives and experiencing consistent growth in both public and private use. To continue realizing the Dutch vision for nanotechnology, however, additional investments will be required starting in 2014. Over the next ten years, from 2014 through 2023, we estimate that NanoLabNL’s investments and operating costs will total 245 M€. Of this, 26 M€ will be required for the 2014–2018 period. In this proposal, we will demonstrate both the necessity of these funds and the immense return this investment will generate for industry, the Netherlands, and society as a whole. This proposal is supported by NanoNextNL and the HTSM top sector.", "summary_en": "Quantum effects have long been considered too fragile to exploit in real-world applications—but the last decade has turned that assumption on its head. Science and industry have developed new quantum materials and devices that are robust and stable up to room temperature. Nanotechnology—the science of manipulating the quantum world—will be the driving technological force in science, industry, and society through 2050. Thanks to its cohesive nanotech landscape, the Netherlands makes a significant contribution to nanotech breakthroughs—but the field is evolving at dizzying speed. To keep its position as a global nanotech leader, the Netherlands must keep investing in state-of-the-art facilities. The Netherlands is unique in its approach to innovation. By interweaving research, development, and infrastructure at the policy level, the Dutch government ensures a coherent system that stimulates collaboration and innovation: the NWOnano initiative fundamental research & applications the NanoLabNL initiative infrastructure the NanoNextNL initiative innovative research & development NanoLabNL www.nanolabnl.nl) is the Netherlands’ national facility for nanotechnological research. NanoLabNL offers the use of its equipment, techniques, and expertise to universities, research institutes, start-up companies, and industry at four locations in the Netherlands. Spread across the country, these locations complement one another in their fields of expertise, to offer the widest possible spectrum of facilities. Each location offers a range of basic and expert techniques (see Figure 1 above). The basic techniques provide a general infrastructure suitable for common nanofabrication activities while keeping the geographical barrier as low as possible, while expert techniques are unique facilities and expertise found nowhere else in the country. This geographically distributed and complementary approach is a deliberate—and unique—choice that has proven extremely effective. An expert international review committee concluded in the fall of 2007 that investments into an infrastructure facility such as NanoLabNL are critical to build and maintain a successful nanotechnology research program.1 Established companies and start-ups alike depend on NanoLabNL’s facilities to carry out vital research and\n\ndevelopment. At the national policy level, the high-tech systems and materials (HTSM) top sector explicitly names NanoLabNL as an integral part of its roadmap.2 The Dutch government and NanoLabNL’s partners have affirmed this internationally recognized importance through ongoing financial commitment since 2004. As we will show in sections A1 and A2, NanoLabNL has provided an excellent return on this investment, achieving all its stated objectives and experiencing consistent growth in both public and private use. To continue realizing the Dutch vision for nanotechnology, however, additional investments will be required starting in 2014. Over the next ten years, from 2014 through 2023, we estimate that NanoLabNL’s investments and operating costs will total 245 M€. Of this, 26 M€ will be required for the 2014–2018 period. In this proposal, we will demonstrate both the necessity of these funds and the immense return this investment will generate for industry, the Netherlands, and society as a whole. 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