11. CONCLUSIONS - RECOMMENDATIONS - FUTURE STRATEGIES AND ACTION PLAN

cists, chemists and biologists who work together and stay in close contact with industrial research labs. Experts in atom-controlled material synthesis, in the advanced microsopic analysis of the materials and in the modelling of materials have to interact in an intimate way. Modern synthesis, analysis and modelling of materials often require large and expensive facilities; fragmented efforts often lead to costly and ineffective local solutions. The GENNESYS foresight study has investigated in detail the state of the art, future opportunities and challenges in this super-disciplinary development of nanoscience and nanotechnology. It has put together recommendations as to how to overcome fragmentation of efforts and to develop novel research strategies with the existing European research infrastructure, i.e. with the modern synchrotron radiation and neutron facilities which hold an enormous analytical potential to interrogate nanostructures and nanofunctions and to monitor nano phenomena under environmentally and industrially relevant conditions.