Beginning of the 21st century has witnessed a tremendous upsurge of scientific activity in the field of 'Nanoscience' and 'Nanotechnology', whose seeds were sowed in the last century. Scientists, technocrats and even governments of many countries all over the world are convinced that 'Nanotechnology' based on 'Nanoscience' is the technology of the 21st century. Nanoelectronics is the most advanced of the Nanotechnologies and products using Nanoelectronics are appearing in the market. Many of the countries in the world are embarking on ambitious programs on Nanoelectronics to address the needs of tomorrow's technologies. Centers of Excellence in Nanoelectronics (CEN) established in 2006 at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc) and IIT, Bombay (IITB) may be considered one among them.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology's (MeitY) support to CEN at IISc and IITB has enabled the process of creating a significant infrastructure, which has promoted research and training in the area of nanoelectronics in India. Although the major focus of this project is research and training of in-house researchers and students at these Institutes, the facilities created under such national initiative is also available to researchers and students from other institutions, laboratories and industry.

After IISc and IITB, MeitY initiated nano centers at IIT Madras (IITM) and IIT Delhi (IITD) in 2011, as well as one at IIT Guwahati (IITG) in 2015. In 2018, the nano centers at IISc, IITB, IITD, IITM, along with the facility at IIT Kharagpur (IITKgp), were brought under one umbrella - the Nanoelectronics Network for Research and Applications (NNetRA) - supported for four years thence by MeitY and DST combined. Now, with the benefit of the INUP experience and with support from MeitY, all six nanocenters, viz. at IISc, IITB, IITD, IITG, IITKgp and IITM has come under one umbrella to open up their facilities to the nation. This new program,'Indian Nanoelectronics Users' Programme - Idea to Innovation' (INUP-i2i) will take the 'open national nano centers' concept to the next stage, while retaining the key aspects of training at different levels introduced in INUP.
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Below are the INUP websites of the other nanocenters:

Objectives of INUP

To conduct workshops for wide dissemination of knowledge in the field of Nanoelectronics; to conduct such workshops not only at IISc and IITB, but also at other locations in the country to ensure that researchers in distant parts of the country benefit from them.
To impart hands-on training in Nanoelectronics to researchers from different institutions in the country.
To assist researchers with initiation of their research work in Nanoelectronics by enabling its execution at the CENs. Applied research that is likely to result in products would be given preference.
To provide a platform for researchers in Nanoelectronics to come together and benefit from complementary expertise.
To work closely with other institutions in the country and help them develop academic programs in nanoelectronics, provide training to faculty and students in nanoelectronics, encourage joint projects between institutes.
To encourage scientific participation in major areas of importance to India by conducting Hackathons. The specific areas for these hackathons can be based on areas that are of importance to the country.
To provide technical support to startups in the area of nanoelectronics.

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