The network

The BalticNet-PlasmaTec network stands for a technology- and market-oriented cooperation betweeen science, research and enterprise in the field of plasma technology. BalticNet-PlasmaTec supports existing and initiates new cooperation activities between universities, the industry, small and medium-sized companies, public entities and other important protagonists from the field of plasma technology. We have made it our goal to raise the awareness of plasma technology in society.

Main activities

As a cross-border network, BalticNet-PlasmaTec aims to support the creation of new jobs in the long term by introducing and disseminating the low-temperature plasma technology in the industry of the Baltic Sea states. The main means to this end include opening up new business fields, fostering company spin-offs, and intense joint marketing.

The main activities of the network include:

• Searching for and procuring partners in R&D and industry

• Drawing up market and feasibility studies

• Defining joint projects and participating in international tenders

• Paving the way for and managing development projects and cooperation

• Acquiring funds and organising (EU) projects

• Organising collaboration projects

• Exchanging teachers, students, and employees

• Procuring graduates, doctoral candidates, and internships

• Conducting technology marketing for new procedures and products

• Presenting R&D results, services, and products

• Holding presentations at fairs and representing the network

• Organising workshops, conventions, and informative meetings

• Conducting cooperative network marketing and drawing up information leaflets

• Supporting new entrepreneurs and established companies

The technological focus

Today, plasma technology has become an interdisciplinary and key technology which finds application in many diverse fields of industry. Among the uses of Plasmas are: etching computer chips, applying a non-reflecting coating to lenses, giving light in the form of luminescent substances and cleaning exhaust gases. Plasma-coated tools have a longer product life, require little or no lubricant or cooling liquid and make precise work possible. In the medical field, plasma is used to coat instruments and implants with functional layers. And these are only a few examples.
The possibilities for application of plasma technology are not exhausted yet and continue to be investigated. Particularly in the fields of micro and nanotechnology, as well as in biotechnology, medicine and environmental technology, many new plasma-based developments are predicted. Often, however, the application of these new technologies is not exploited to its maximum potential due to the lack of knowledge of many potential users about the possibilities offered by plasma technology.

Highlights

Over the last few years, BalticNet-PlasmaTec has developed into an attractive platform for users and researchers in the field of plasma technology. The network has reliable contacts to scientific and public entities and manifold relations with industrial partners particularly in the Baltic Sea Region. However, BalticNet-PlasmaTec is not only active in the Baltic States, Scandinavia and Poland, but also has cooperation partners in Russia. We have also continued to develop our international co-operation projects outside the Baltic Sea Region with new projects in India and Israel.
Through these targeted marketing activities, we promote German strengths in the area of research and development together with university and non-university research institutes, R&D networks and research-intensive enterprises. Another main focus of our work lies in initiating contacts with enterprises which are innovative or willing to innovate in the fields of metalworking, medical technology and environmental protection and with the corresponding university facilities around the globe.
New project ideas and new partners are always welcome. For more information please contact us.