Our COST Action MP1407 "e-minds" featured in COST Success Stories in Switzerland

“The COST Action provides the ideal platform for meeting people and learning about their expertise, which is key to building an effi cient con-sortium. It is quite diffi cult to build consortia with people you don’t know. The COST Action starts the engine of building consortia. (…) There are people whose knowledge and ideas I can benefi t from. This is the big picture of the COST Action.”

A COST Action is an ideal platform, as it provides expertise sharing at EU level. The Action e-MINDS covers a lot of objectives from my research area. For instance, we are now looking into building robots that could drill bacterial biofi lms. There are a lot of Action participants experienced in making composites using electrolytes. Implementing electrolytes in abrasive electrode coatings, applied to a very tiny structure, is challeng-ing, but researchers in the network could help me implement these coatings in my mi-cro- and nanorobots. Others specialised in biologically oriented coatings could help me with the implementation. An important issue is that every structure combines several materials in the same platform, which is dangerous because corrosion processes can occur and micro- and nanostructures can lose their functionality. The Action features experts who help me fi nd a strategy to combine these materials while reducing corro-sion effects.

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