About iCAN

International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology (iCAN) is the first international youth innovation contest in micro/nano fields.

The mission of iCAN'11 is to promote the innovative spirits of youth, to construct a collaboration platform between academy and industry, to accelerate the applications of nano-micro technology and to educate the young generation in high-tech research and development.

iCAN'11 welcomes the youths from all over the world to join, the final contest will have two levels, college and high school. Students must form a team and develop a novel application project using micro/nano devices. All teams must pass through one country/region's domestic contest and win the chance to go to the final contest.

About iCAN'11

2011 International Contest of Application in Nano-Micro Technology (iCAN'11) will be held together with Transducers'11 during 4-8 June, 2011 in China Science and Technology Museum, Beijing China. iCAN is an international contest for college students, to promote the innovative spirits of youth, to construct collaboration platform, to increase applications of nano-micro technology. Since its launch in March, 2010, more than 20 countries and regions have participanted into the contest.

Participants

1. Students from High School, Undergraduate, Graduated School are welcome to participant.

2. Students must participant by teams, each team has 2-5 members.

A team consists of members from different countries can be formed

Projects

1. The project of each team welcome to use the micro/nano devices from sponsors, make novel applications.

2. The final project must be functioned and can be shown to reviewers.

How to join

Contact to the organizer of your contries & regions

Awards

1st Prize: 3000 USD/each (2)

2nd Prize: 2000 USD/each (4)

3nd Prize: 1000 USD/each (6)

Special awards: 500 USD (2)

Organizers

Ministry of Education of China

United MEMS Park, Japan

Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology(CSMNT)

VDE, Germany

Chinese International NEMS Society (CINS)

Contest Committee

iCAN'11 ADVISORY BOARD

Shuzi Yang(China)

Chihming Ho(USA)

Masayoshi Esashi(Japan)

Nico De. Rooij(Switzerland)

CO-CHAIRS

Haixia(Alice) Zhang, China

Helmut Seidel, Germany

Osamu Tabata, Japan

Yuchong Tai, USA

Gwobin Lee, Taiwan

Wen Jung Li, Hong Kong

Juergen Brugger, Switzerland

Lina Sarro, Netherland

MEMBERS

Kentaro Totsu(Japan) Tingrui Pan(USA) Yikuen Lee(HK) Weizheng Yuan(China) 

Yong Chen(France) K.C. Aw(New Zealand) Yu Sun(Canada) Yizhong Huang(UK) 

Young-Ho Cho(Korea) Aiqun Liu(Singapore) Wibool Piyawattanametha(Thailand)

Sami Franssila(Finland) Tayfun Akin(Turkey) Fabrizio Pirri(Italy)

Wong Hin Yong (Malaysia) Phan Ngoc Minh(Vietnam) JoseLuis Saldavero(Spain)

iCAN’11 Panel of Judges

Co-Chairs:

Kurt Peterson, USA

Zhao Yang (Chairman of the Board, MEMSIC)

Important Dates

Time: June. 4th - 8th, 2011

Venue: China Science and Technology Museum.

Schedule:
June 4th 2011, 9:00-16:30, First Floor, China Science and Technology Museum

June 5th 2011, 8:00--18:00, Opening Ceremony, and Presentation Exhibition

June 6th-7th 2011, iCAN events

June 8th 2011 18:00-21:30, Award ceremony (together with Transducers'11 banquet)

 

 

 

Partners(Pending)

Wuxi Government

CCTV

Science Times

Global Sensor Network

Chinese International NEMS Network

Criteria for Rating

The final contest will include two parts, Defense and Voting.

 

Criteria Rules and Calculation

Defense, rated by the Panel of the Judges (60%)                              Defense                                                      Mark A

                                                                                                  Each Team has 10                                          Average of all judge’s ratings

                                                                                                 minutes for presentation, 

                                                                                                 and 5 minutes for Q & A.

 Voting by the exhibition visitors (40%)                                                 Voting                                                          Mark B

                                                                                                  All the attendees of                        Votes that the project received/ total votes * 30%

                                                                                                  TRANSDUCERS’11 have

                                                                                                  the right to vote.

 Final Result                                                                                The total of A+B will the final mark of team.

 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Intellectual property (IP) rights concern ideas that are translated into tangible products, writings, etc. and that are protected by the state for a limited period of time from unauthorized commercial exploitation. They include patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copyright. Since a large share of the production of scientific results takes place at universities, the interface between universities and industries has come into focus. Policymakers in many developed countries have responded by erecting extensive infrastructures intended to facilitate the commercialization of scientific research output. 

          In order to avoid infringement against intellectual property rights and protect the benefits of the relative three parties: student,    sponsored  industry, organizer of the second International Contest of Application in Nano-micro technology (iCAN’11), the committee of iCAN’11 draws up this protection project of intellectual property rights for iCAN’11.

 

• Students

      (1) The ideas and the products of the works should be original. The idea must be generated by the student of the team group. The students of the team group who will take part in iCAN’11 should obey the legal system of intellectual property rights of their countries or regions, and avoid the infringement of intellectual property rights.

      (2) If the students from different universities of the country or region decide to form a team group, they must consult with each other and determine the rights and interests or benefit shares of each team member.
      (3) Before submitting the plan, the students should confirm with their appropriate advisors or legal counsel that any intellectual property described in your plan is protected.
      (4) During the process of iCAN’11, if the students find someone who are from the sponsored industries or organizers of iCAN’11 using the students’ original works plan to achieve commercial purpose, the students can report the case with appropriate proofs to the committee of iCAN’11 or take effective measure themselves for protection of intellectual property rights.

 

• Sponsored industries

(1) The judges or the representatives of the sponsored industries can read and review the plan of the students’ works, but they can’t disclose the students’ plan to other persons, other industries or use the students’ plan to be commercialized without authorization.

(2) The sponsored industries can copy the videos and documents of the students’ works plan, but they also can’t disclose them to others or use them to be commercialized without authorization.
(3) If the sponsored industries want to use the students’ works plan to be commercialized, they should obtain the students’ permission or authorization.

 

 

• Organizers

(1) The organizers can collect the students’ works plan and deliver the plan to the judges, but they should preserve the documents, videos or other media of the plan.
(2) The organizers have the rights to tell the judges and sponsored industries to obey the legal system of intellectual property rights.

(3) The organizers had better set up some mechanisms to meet an emergency when the crimes against intellectual property rights happen.

 

WEBSITES OF iCAN'11

Homepage: http://www.iCAN-contest.org

Video Web: http://u.youku.com/user_show/uid_ILOVEICAN

Blog(Chinese): http://ican.sciencenet.cn/