Created in the frame of the European Project Horizon 2020 “Innovation Eco-system to Accelerate the Industrial Uptake of Advanced Surface Nano-Technologies – Newskin” (grant agreement 862100), the Association pursues a disinterested purpose of international utility consisting, inter alia, of: (i) Assuming a coordinating role to facilitate the provision of services by the Association’s Full Members to end clients, it being understood that in the framework of such provision of services the Association Full Members would provide access to physical facilities, capabilities and services required for the commercialization, development, testing and upscaling of nanotechnology and advanced materials in accordance with the principles set forth by the European Project Horizon 2020 Open Innovation Test Beds Program referred to hereinabove. In this perspective, the Association shall therefore assume the role of a Single Entry Point ("SEP"), i. e, a legal entity through which the provision of services set out in the aforementioned NewSkin Project (G.A 862100) shall be accessible and which shall act as an “architect office”. (ii) Providing a collaborative structure and framework for the Association’s members in order to support and manage their coordinated activity. Within the framework of its international disinterested purpose, the Association shall carry out, inter alia and hence not by way of limitation, the following activities, which constitute its object: a. Develop the market and allow the Association’s Full Members to provide services to the Innovation Ecosystem, it being understood that an Innovation Ecosystem actor is any entity, company or individual, which activity is related with innovative materials, particularly nanoenabled surfaces and membranes, but not limited to these fields. b. Undertake research and investigations of international interest, in cooperation and coordination with the members, executing activities like e.g. acting as an Architect Office, soft R&D activities, dissemination, promotion, exploitation, coordination. c. Encourage coordination and cooperation with European and International organisations in the respective fields represented by NewSkin AISBL Full and Associate Members. d. Inform Full and Associate Members on research and investigations being carried out so as to achieve coordination and avoid duplication of effort. e. Circulate to Full and Associate Members information concerning all matters directly or indirectly relevant to the Innovation Ecosystem. f. Promote good understanding and personal contacts between Full and Associate Members. g. Promote the interests of the Association’s Full and Associate Members within the Innovation Ecosystem. h. Maintain contacts and activities within the Innovation Ecosystem so that the NewSkin AISBL is sustainable and is extended after the end of the European Project H2020 referred to hereinabove. i. Carry out any other activity which is in the Full and Associate Members' collective interest such as, by way of example, conducting research on an international scale, the results of which should be made available to its members in order to increase quality and competitiveness in the framework of the Innovation Ecosystem. j. Act as an "architect office" that shall support end clients to ease the contractual processes necessary to hire the NewSkin AISBL Full Members’ services to accelerate the technology transfer to the market. k. Carry out supporting activities to accelerate the technology transfer of nano-enabled surfaces, such as project

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