The Interuniversity Micro-Electronics Center in Leuven, IMEC is a leading European independent research centre in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, enabling design methods and technologies for ICT systems. It's mission is to perform R&D which is 3 to 10 years ahead of industrial needs. IMEC is working on sub-45 nanometre technology in its 300mm cleanroom. The 4800 square metre 200mm compatible cleanroom, containing a Silicon pilot line, is the basis for "More than Moore" research based on mature 0.18um technology.

Through the Photonics Research Group at the Department of Information technology of Ghent University, an associated laboratory of IMEC, IMEC has over two decades of experience in photonics research. Since 6 years, a strong expertise in integrated Silicon nano-photonics is built up. IMEC has already been offering facility access to European research groups for over 5 years, within the context of FP5 and FP6 projects.

CEA (Atomic Energy Commission) is a French Governmental Research Organisation (15000 employees) devoted to both fundamental and industrial R&D. CEA-LETI is one of the major European research centres for applied electronics. More than 85% of its activity is dedicated to research finalised with external partners. Nearly 1,600 men and women are serving innovation and the transfer of technology in key domains. As the preferred contact of the industrial world, CEA-LETI has sparked the creation of nearly thirty high-technology start-ups, including Soitec, world leader in silicon on insulator.

CEA-LETI is located in Grenoble where it benefits from 11000 m² state-of-the-art clean rooms, up to 300 mm wafer size, with equipment worth some 200 M€ (40 M€ are invested each year to maintain the equipment park). The yearly CEA-Leti budget was 174 M€ in 2006. Léti is one of the main groups behind Minatec, Europe’s main Centre of Excellence in Micro- and Nano-technology, that brings together more than 4,000 research, industry and education partners in Grenoble. CEA-LETI benefits from platforms within Minatec which group expertise and resources found nowhere else in Europe, such as the 300 mm silicon technology platform, the 200 mm microelectronics platform, the 200 mm MEMS200 microsystems platform, the nanocharacterisation platform, the Upstream platform and the Design platform.