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26. August 2010

Plasma Technology in the

Euroregion Pomerania

Cluster development and network

Mario Kokowsky

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Agenda

What is the Euroregion Pomerania ?

Who is researching in Plasma ?

The BalticNet – PlasmaTec – a success story !

Next steps and perspectives

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Euroregion Pomerania

Area: 38.318 km²

Inhabitants: 2.731.542

Biggest city:

Szczecin (411.000 inbt.)

Source: Pomerania e.V.

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Physics and Plasma Technology in the Euroregion

Pomerania

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• Project: Wendelstein 7X

- Experiment with global importance for a

controlled fusion to solve energy problems in

the future

- ~550 employees

- Investment appr. 1.000 Mio. €

Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma physics

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Research in the field of low temperature Plasma physics

for technical applications

• Powerful equipment for measurement, experiments etc.

• Close connection between basic research and applications

- surfaces and materials

- energy and environment

- biology and medicine

• 160 employees

• Member of the Leibniz-association

Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and

Technology (INP)

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Institute of Physics at the University

of Greifswald

- Basic research in the field of

Plasma physics

- Member of the transregional

research – projects of the DFG

(tog. with Kiel, Rostock)

- New building in 2007

- 200 students and scientific staffProf. Stark

Nobel price

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Westpomeranian Technical

University

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Institute for Electrical Engineering:

6 Departments

9 Professors, 36 scientific staff

15 technical employees

appr. 250 students

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Additional to that: Scientific potential

● Szczecin ~50.000

– University 30.000

– Tecnical University 20.000

● Koszalin 15.000

● Greifswald 11.000

● Stralsund 3.000

● Neubrandenburg 2.000

● Eberswalde 1.500

The most students in Germany

coming from abroad

are from Poland

Appr. 80.000 students (!!!)

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Source: THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001

Economical potentials e.g. last morning

- Plasma technology influences our daily life

already!

- The value of all this economic activity is hard

to estimate

- A small example:

Displays and TV’s are a $200 bill. market

- In the absence of plasma the $2 trillion

telecommunications industry would arguably

not exist.

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Birthplace of BalticNet-PlasmaTec (BNPT)

Representatives of universities and research

institutions of Greifswald, Szczecin and

Koszalin signed the contract on 05th

November 2004 in Greifswald.

In July 2005 was the first workshop in

Greifswald as a project activity part financed

by Interreg III-A Euroregion Pomerania.

Ongoing activities partly financed by the

International Bureau of the BMBF

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The BalticNet-PlasmaTec 2010

- 48 members

- From 10 countries

- Increasing number of projects

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Structure of BalticNet-PlasmaTec

• Marketing

• Education

• Vacuum technology

• Plasma & Bio

• Plasma & Environment

Pictures: INP Greifswald, Airtec GmbH, TZV

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Steps and results from the idea to the market

education

Market

fundamental

research

developmentapplied oriented

research

Alumni

(PhD,

B.Sc,

M.Sc)

proceedings model,

prototypes

product /

technologyIPR

Knowledge

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Results (examples)

•Substitution of wet chemical methods with plasma processes

Era-Net Martec Plasma-based catalytic treatment of exhaust emissions

of marine diesel engines PBCT

“PlasTEP – Dissemination and fostering of plasma based technological

innovation for environment protection in the BSR” (Interreg IVb)

•Acquisition of new partners from industry and research

Presentation at Hannover fair, Biotechnica, Poleko

„6. Symposium on Vacuum based Science and Technology“, Koszalin

EJC – PISE Workshop, Riga

•Organisation of placements

IP summer school

Erasmus exchange of students and teaching staff

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Success-Story: INP Greifswald

Employees

(avrg. p.y.)

Third-party-funds

(incl. Spin-offs)

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Plasma technology is an interdisciplinary key-technology

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The competition is global and takes place between regions

Euroregion Pomerania has great chances for a good position

as a competitive region, but a cluster needs also companies

A common strategy (and action) is a key-success-factor

Conclusion II

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Offers : processing

Services of the TZV for the common strategy

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Thank you

for your attention

Mario Kokowsky

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