Within the 6th Framework Programme for Research & Development of the European Union, the Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Research Training (EST) are aimed at offering structured scientific and/or technological training as well as providing complementary skills for young researchers with less than 4 years of research experience.

The goal of the NANOTOOL site is to provide European scientists at the beginning of their activity with key concepts and methods concerning the elaboration and properties of nano-objects (metal nanoparticles, dendrimers, polymers and surfactant aggregates). Young scientists will be appointed to work on those fields for periods of 8, 18 or 36 months.