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At a signing ceremony in Lisbon on May 30, 2009, the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formalized a $35 million collaboration aimed at enhancing both institutions’ efforts in nanoscience and nanotechnology research and education.
The INL—a joint project of the governments of Portugal and Spain—is an international research facility that opened earlier this year in Braga, Portugal. This is its first collaboration with an academic institution in the United States.
The agreement will result in the creation of MIT-INL, a joint enterprise that will launch an ambitious nanotechnology research agenda to be led by the INL’s director-general, José Rivas, and Subra Suresh, Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering.
Dean Suresh, a bio-nanotechnology researcher and Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, also serves on the Governing Committee of the MIT Portugal Program. Another member of MIT Portugal’s Governing Committee, Luis Magalhães, is Council President of the INL.
The launching of MIT-INL occurs in the context of the existing relationship between MIT and Portugal that has been forged by the MIT Portugal Program, as well as by other programs at MIT that involve partnerships with Spain, and furthers MIT's linkages with cutting-edge research being pursued on the Iberian peninsula.
Additional details of the agreement are available on MIT's website.
 Image Left to right: Luis Magalhães, President, Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento; Paulo Freitas, INL Deputy Director-General; Subra Suresh, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; José Rivas, INL Director-General; José Mariano Gago, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education.
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