The topics of the current year of the NanoOstrava 2025 conference reflect the basic visions of the two major projects REFRESH and MATUR, in which the Nanotechnology Centre, CEET, VSB-TUO is actively involved.

The REFRESH project is the "flagship" and a key tool in achieving SMARAGD’s vision. It represents a major investment to strengthen research excellence in the Moravian-Silesian Region. The project will build a unique European infrastructure for research and technology transfer in the fields of sustainable energy, digitalization of industrial production, automation in transport, environmental technologies, and smart material technologies.

The MATUR project aims at creating a centre of excellence in materials and technologies for sustainable development, which aims at interdisciplinary research with a high potential for the creation of cutting-edge and future applicable research results with overlap into various fields of human society in an international context. The MATUR Centre of Excellence will be built on an excellent research team and on the development of international cooperation between research organisations.