NOIs is a collaborative project with contributions from five European research groups:

• Co-ordinator: Síle Nic Chormaic (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Arno Rauschenbeutel (Universität Mainz, Germany)
• Phil Jones (UCL, UK)
• Rainer Blatt (Universität Innsbruck, Austria) in collaboration with Helmut Ritsch (Universität Innsbruck, Austria) .
  
• Vladimir Minogin (Institute of Spectroscopy, Moscow, Russia)

and funded by the European NanoSci-E+ programme and national funding agencies. 

The aim of the project is to use the evanescent field around tapered optical nanofibres as an interface for trapping and manipulating matter, ranging from single ions to microscopic particles.