"In recent years, the advance of contemporary technologies became more closely related to the development of new materials. Exploiting the possibility of designing new materials on micro and nano level as well as composite materials enables their use in various fields such as biomedicine, catalysis, civil engineering, aerospace and process industry. The aim of this project is to contribute to the advance in proposed fields by networking and reinforcing research centers in Serbia as an EU's Convergence Region, by organizing personnel exchange, performing joint experiments, teaching and training activities with EU networking research and industrial partners. In that way, the research project team will get strong expertise in the synthesis, processing, characterization and testing of nanostructured materials, establishing new advanced processing and characterization methods, also. Special care will be taken towards hiring of experienced and new young researchers in order to reinforce the human potential. This project will also result in upgrading and acquired of the S&T equipment of the centre in order to reinforce internal S&T capacities. This kind of collaboration will result in preparing further cooperative activities and preparation of new joint RTD proposals and reinforcing integration to European Research Area."