To achieve the goals of the project, a Consortium with a well-recognized background and specific
competence has been put together.
The Consortium was constructed by taking into account that
cooperation is crucial and that all Beneficiaries must have a strong interest and motivation in
carrying out the activities of the project, as well as a clear role that leads to sound and exploitable
results. Since i-FLEXIS introduces a groundbreaking key-technology that could generate a whole
family of novel products, it requires to set up a whole new value chain of competencies (spanning from research centres, to industrial technology Beneficiaries to commercial SMEs) to allow for its
successful technological development, industrial implementation and commercial exploitation. Such
a set of competencies is already present within the Consortium and the synergies created within
cover the entire project backbone: from materials to flexible readout electronics and to the
implementation of two different test vehicles (Health Dosimeter System and Luggage Identification
Tag). One of the major challenges covers the technology transfer from research institutes producing
research of excellence towards EU industries needing innovative technologies to be even more
competitive.
The i-FLEXIS consortium consists in:
Research institutes and academic Beneficiaries with strong competence in room temperature
solid state ionizing radiation detectors characterization, fabrication and radiation hardness
assessment (UniBo), organic single crystal growth and characterization (UNITS), nano/microelectronic devices development and fabrication by printing processes such as inkjet and
screen printing (UniCa and
UniNova).
Industrial research Beneficiary with strong competence in printed flexible electronics
development and scalability (CEA/LITEN)
SMEs: EURORAD (a company with a very strong R&D activity, over 20 years experience in
radiation detectors fabrication and focused on the development of medical devices for cancer
diagnosis, e.g. per-operative nuclear probes and Imaging systems);
NANOGRADE (a young and
dynamic SME active in the development and production of inks for the printed electronics market
(OLED, OPV, Sensors)); TAGSYS (a leading RFID provider of item-level inventory management
systems that streamline the supply chain, delivering innovative and highly reliable systems to more
than 400 customers in 40+ countries, for over 15 years); and
BioAge (BioAge is an high-tech SME
founded in 2003 that develops and produces measurement instruments based on sensors and
biosensors and real time monitoring systems)