Project information
Central European Platform for Plasma-enabled Surface Engineering
(COLOSSE)
- Project Identification
- 101158464
- Project Period
- 4/2024 - 3/2027
- Investor / Pogramme / Project type
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European Union
- Horizon Europe
- Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area
- MU Faculty or unit
- Faculty of Science
- Other MU Faculty/Unit
- Rector's Office
- Cooperating Organization
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University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
- Responsible person Pavel Baroch
- Responsible person Marian Mikula
The goal of COLOSSE is to increase the participation of Czech and Slovak plasma-enabled surface engineering R&I centres in Horizon Europe and future EU Framework Programmes for R&I. COLOSSE connects Czech and Slovak research facilities in the area of plasma-enabled surface engineering. The three research centres of COLOSSE have been among those supported in this major wave of ERDF investment. Their mission is to perform cutting-edge science with enabling potential for development of novel technologies. They have been shaping and supporting their regional ecosystems over a decade, creating networks of interactions that facilitate knowledge transfer and exploitation of surface engineering technologies. They have also developed international connections – which, however, have led only to isolated cases of involvement in international R&I projects.