The CYTED Program has been characterized, since its creation, for its flexibility and capacity of incorporating novelties, as long as in its management mechanisms, like in the cooperation modalities, what has allowed it to make comfortable quickly to the changes that are taking place in the environment of the international scientific cooperation.

The consolidation of the Program has been based on one hand, in the progressive political support that they have manifested the 21 participant countries and that it has culminated with the formal incorporation from the CYTED to the programs of cooperation of the Ibero-American Summits of Chief of State and of Government.

This political support has been reflected in the growing commitment of the Signatory Organisms in the administration of the Program, in the continuous evaluation of the same one and its consideration like a strategic instrument of the international cooperation, as well as in the cofinancing participation.

On the other hand, the continuous self regard processes and of external evaluation of the CYTED Program, they have allowed to go designing new cooperation modalities and deepening in the organizational outlines characterized by their flexible and participative character, what has generated a great acceptance of CYTED like a cooperation instrument among the Ibero-American scientific and technological communities that feel to the Program like an own instrument and no as an instrument of the external cooperation.

This combination of the political commitment and of the commitment of the scientific communities have facilitated an unprecedented development of CYTED and the obtaining of countless tangible and intangible results with the result of a broadly international widespread recognition that is allowing it to have an active paper and in some cases of leadership in the forums of the international cooperation.

• An International Program of scientific and technological cooperation, of multilateral and horizontal character, and of Ibero-American environment.

• For its philosophy, a suitable instrument for the scientific and technological cooperation among the Ibero-American countries, based on the union of resources and efforts to get an multiplier effect in the achievement of common objectives of impact in the productive system.

• An important mechanism for the integration of the Ibero-American scientific and technological community, creating this way favorable conditions for the economic and politic integration .

• A generating Program of cohesion in Iberoamérica. When promoting the transfer of knowledge and technical, the mobility of scientific and experts and the exchanges in general, reducing the current imbalances and lacks.

• A bridge for the cooperation between Latin America and Europe.

1. The thematic CYTED Networks are associations of Research Units of public or private Organisms of the countries members of the Program whose scientific interests and activities keep relationship with the topic selected for the Network.
2. The objectives of the Thematic Networks are to propitiate among the associate Units:
   The stable and continuous scientific interactions
   The exchanges of scientific and technique information of mutual interest
   The sinergic enhancement and the coordination of their lines of R+D.
   The exchanges of research and personnel's mobility
   The formation of human resources
   The technical and methodological training
   The design and elaboration of proposals of projects of competitiveness research and innovation projects
   The actions of technological transfer that are technical, economic and commercially viable.  
3. The maintenance and consolidation of the Thematic Networks requires:
   The active participation of all the associate Units
   The perception of the existence of a common benefit and of an improvement of the competitiveness of each one of the associate Units.

4. The activities (of the Network) they will be able to include:
   The exchange and researchers' mobility
   Formation of human resources
   Specialized courses of character practice on methodologies and technical
   Shops among scientific and technological topics of interest
   The exchange and diffusion of information, data and experience

Organizer of the Network: Dr. Joaquin Tutor-Sanchez

The conception of new Nanostructures and applications, production processes and characterization of materials, structures, devices and its associations; rising of the capacities and competences already installed in the area, with the involvement of groups not included in this information; preparation of a monograph on the state of the art of the theme, indicating strategic guidelines for its development in the area, identifying applications of socioeconomic interest, particularly in what it refers to the other Sub-programs of CYTED; workshops accomplishment and meetings of groups, to organize introductory and advanced courses, seeking the development of emergent groups and the enhancement of teaching entities and its researches recently arrived to the theme; rising of the potentialities of application of the results in the industrial atmosphere, be through licensed patents starting from knowledge generated by the involved groups, it wants through partnerships.