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Seven Seas Academy for Nano Technology, Biomedicine and Future Proof Telephony

We stand at a frontier of science that offers almost limitless possibilities as Nano Systems, Bio Medicine and Information Technology converge to provide a ‘triple witching event’ of application specific advances to benefit mankind.

Nano systems - utilise novel phenomena (physical, chemical, biological, etc.) that appear at the nanoscale to allow the creation of new types of device functionalities that cannot be achieved at macro or microscale. Developing nanostructures/devices and assembling them into nanosystems require various issues to be addressed at different levels. One of the major challenges in the manufacturing level, for example, is to develop low-cost, high-throughput, scaleable device technologies that will allow system-level integration of various functional modules.

Bio Medicine advances with the unravelling of the structure of human DNA and a number of key pathogens such as MRSA, or commonly referred to as the hospital ‘super-bug’, has created novel ways of controlling disease. These advances coupled with an improved understanding of the human body’s bio-magnetic systems may provide opportunities for immediate diagnosis of disease, the more rapid development of focused pharmaceuticals and potentially the possibility of re-growing organs.

Computational science in the application of Information Technology is a ‘pivotal discipline’, creating new vehicles for analysis, interpretation and control in many varied fields of study and ‘value delivery’. These range from life sciences to engineering, chemistry, earth sciences and psychological and brain sciences. Computational models are increasingly playing an important role in social sciences and humanities. collaborators

The evolution of these ‘ground breaking technologies provides an opportunity to create an Academy that would act as a virtual hub to provide the impetus to significantly advance this new hybrid science. The European Union and many international scientific agencies have assigned multi-billion dollar budgets to fund these new disciplines.

There are many centres of excellence being developed at Universities and Research Centres across the world. Currently, the exchange of ideas is through conferences and peer group reviewed papers. Historically, resources have been dissipated through not achieving critical mass and the politics and ‘in-fighting’ of the established academic community with significant administrative overheads that can amount to as much as 50% of research budgets.

It is intended to establish the Seven Seas Academy in Fribourg in Switzerland. This central location is in close proximity to major world research centres and NGOs within the framework of Swiss neutrality. It is hoped to use this centre as a bridge between Russian and Western technology and to seed commercialisation through mutual partnership and joint ventures.