And that’s a wrap for the INL SUMMIT 2022. The INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory aimed that this event would be an open and inclusive forum of exchange that enabled the needed transitions through a unique and inspiring panel of multidisciplinary experts sharing the latest findings on new materials for sustainable solutions, disruptive computation, healthcare innovation, and other nanotech advances transforming our lives.

The INL Summit was opened by the Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education – Elvira Fortunato, Ricardo Rio, Mayor of Braga, António Cunha, President of CCDR-N and Professor Lars Montelius, Director-General INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory.

Elvira Fortunato highlighted INL and the work developed and stressed the scientific cooperation between Portugal and Spain through the implementation of a new Iberian Research Center focused on Energy Storage, which will be born in the city of Cáceres and should start operating at the end of 2023 with 150 technicians and researchers. The Minister also mentioned that the Portuguese Government will support the creation of this new laboratory which is so important for all of Europe in the sense of a greener and more sustainable future.

Ricardo Rio, Mayor of Braga, insisted on the need to commit to science in the face of humanity’s new challenges, such as the green transition or the circular economy. He also referred to the importance of providing a solution to “sustainable mobility” in large cities and the importance of “finding new solutions to store the energy” that is produced, which is why the city of Braga participates in the “Batteries 2030” research to find new formulas for energy production and distribution.

Researchers, policy-makers, industry partners, and venture capital investors came together in a program that included lectures, round tables and networking opportunities, with the participation of Peter Dröll, Director for Prosperity, Directorate-General Research and Innovation – European Commission, Fabio Taucer, Policy Officer, Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission, José Mendes, Executive President of Fundação Mestre Casais and a Full Professor at the University of Minho, António Amorim, President and CEO Corticeira Amorim among others.

With a multidisciplinary group of 30 experts and + 300 participants this INL Summit 2022 was in a hybrid format and participants could attend either online or in-person at the International Iberian Institute of Nanotechnology (INL), in Braga, Portugal. 

INL, member of flexfunction2sustain and safe-n-medtech, co-organizes OITB Village at IndTech2022


INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory together with the partners of the EU projects FlexFunction2Sustain and SAFE-N-MEDTECH co-organizes an OITB Village at IndTech2022 in Grenoble, France, June 27–29, 2022.

Next week, Grenoble will be home to a unique Open Innovation Ecosystem ready to support innovators at different stages of technological development.

Open Innovation Test Beds (OITB) joined forces to improve the visibility of this ecosystem in the European industry. The OITB village at IndTech 2022 is a special arena built to reinforce the OITB ecosystem and interconnect established projects.

The ultimate goal of this joint participation is to enable and strengthen the relationship between OITBs and innovators and to highlight and promote the integrated support to European industry at different stages of technological development.

This year, IndTech 2022 will focus on the industry’s dual green and digital transition, with discussions between researchers, industrial companies, start-ups, funding agencies and Commission representatives, as well as French administrative bodies and the other Member States.

The event is co-organised by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and DG Research & Innovation of the European Commission under the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in the world’s centre of scientific research – Grenoble.

 

ABOUT THE OITB VILLAGE

The joint participation holds two solid components and aims to bring great attention from industry, SMEs and research to the OITBs and the Open Innovation Ecosystem.

The OITB Village presents a thoroughly curated agenda that includes:

 

ABOUT THE VILLAGERS

Participants visiting the OITB Village will have the opportunity to network at the exhibition area, where several OITBs will be ready to present their work in different fields, such as:

OITBs present: INN-PRESSME, BIONANOPOLYS

OITB present: iclimabuilt

OITB-like project: INNO4COV-19

 In addition to those 12 OITBs mentioned above, the “Best Practices” workshop will also gather the projects PHOENIX, TBMED, METABUILDING LABS, BIOMAT,  FormPlanet

Organisers

FlexFunction2Sustain project started on 1st April 2020 and will run for 48 months. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862156 to create a network for innovative solutions for sustainable and smart products powered by nano-functionalized paper and plastic in order to support SMEs in the development and market launch of pioneering products. FlexFunction2Sustain consortium consists of 19 European partners, including research organizations, universities and private companies.

SAFE-N-MEDTECH project started on 1st April 2019 and will run for 48 months. The project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 814607 TO build an innovative open-access platform for companies and reference laboratories in the nano-enabled medical technology space. SAFE-N-MEDTECH consortium consists of 34 partners, including research organizations, universities and private companies.

OITB Village at Conference on Industrial Technologies IndTech 2022

Grenoble, France | June 27-30, 2022 | https://indtech2022.eu/

 

BATERIAS 2030 Project: outcome and results presented next week at INL


Baterias 2030 presents next Tuesday, June 7th, at the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, the outcomes and results of the mobilizing project. This public presentation will serve two essential purposes: to reveal the scientific and technological advances of the project in the two years of activity, related to new technologies storage, management and distribution of energy and to present the demonstrators that will be installed in the Living Lab to be set in downtown Braga at gnration.

Pedro Salomé, the scientific Coordinator of the Project, highlights that “the project has been creating an important ecosystem in the battery sector by gathering 23 partners all working towards the integration of batteries in the urban energy system. And although the project started to be sketched back in 2019, the partners were already considering some energy trends that at the time were discarded but that currently are provided as the future. Examples are the energy communities, the production of hydrogen for long term energy storage, the use of gen3 Li batteries, lithium recycling, the use of second-life batteries, use of photovoltaics in buildings/facades, just to give some examples. Such early vision demonstrates that when the industry works closely with research and technology organizations, society’s technological development requirements can be developed early and on time for its deployment”.

Pedro feels quite proud to have such a diverse group of stakeholders developing such diverse technologies under the same umbrella and invites everyone to visit our living laboratory in downtown Braga at gnration when it opens in one year’s time.

This is the first large-scale initiative that integrates entities from the scientific and technological system with the national battery industry in a consortium, constituting a milestone in the development of new disruptive technologies in this area.

The success of this project is due to the close collaboration of several dstgroup companies such as dstsolar, innovationpoint, bysteel fs and dst sa together with INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, WATT-IS, Efacec, Addvolt, Secil, CDC New Cap, Visblue, FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, IST – Instituto Superior Técnico, CeNTI – Centro de Nanotecnologia e Materiais Técnicos, Funcionais e Inteligentes, LNEG – Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia e Geologia, CEiiA, INESC-TEC, INESC-MN, Universidade do Minho, Omniflow, 3Drivers, ZEEV and Amnis Pura.



Check the Full agenda

IPLEXMED wins acceleration program in Braga


It is called iPlexMed and was created by six researchers from INL- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and the University of Minho. In this session, which took place during the Economy Week of Braga, which was organized and promoted by InvestBraga, iPlexMed won the first prize – 20 thousand euros of this acceleration program.

“This award is an honour, but at the same time a great responsibility. We have been consolidating our work so that our solution reaches the market”, said Bruno Almeida, CEO and one of the co-founders.

iPlexMed develops the next generation of lab-quality, fast, portable, and pluggable genetic diagnostic devices for any time, anywhere healthcare support. This unique project was born in the first hackathon, co-organized by INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory and ICVS.

This seventh acceleration program was developed over four months. The selected startups had the opportunity to work with mentors, trainers and specialists linked to the InvestBraga Innovation hub. With 53 submissions, 12 startups were selected for the final round and only 9 reached the end of the competition.

INL hosted TrustEat Technical Workshop


Last week partners from the TrustEat project gathered in person, at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga, Portugal, for the first time, to discuss in-depth how to connect INL sensors to the blockchain technology. 

Partners from IBM Zurich and WUR visited us to share their experience, particularly in blockchain applied to the agri-food sector. This event was a good opportunity for INLers to materialise the knowledge share with IBM and WUR in the last year and a half and create new projects and connections. Many great ideas were shared on how to use INL sensors to provide information on the origin, quality and sustainability of agri-food products.

TrustEat project promotes the application of Blockchain technology to the food value chain to increase the reliability of a new food system. The project links the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory – INL (Portugal) with the leading international institutions Wageningen University and Research – WUR (Netherlands) and IBM Research (Switzerland).

Portuguese Prime Minister visits INL, and event promoted by AICEP


The Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, visited INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory last Friday, an event promoted by AICEP. Prime Minister met with dozens of companies, to prepare for the Portuguese participation at Hannover Messe’22, in Germany, which is the largest industrial fair in the world, and Portugal was chosen as the partner country for this year’s edition.

Under the motto #PortugalMakesSense, Portugal will be at HANNOVER MESSE fair with more than 100 companies, showing the clusters of technological excellence in the areas of equipment and metalworking, mobility, automotive, aeronautics, textile, technical plastics, moulding, production technologies and renewable energy.

During this visit, António Costa highlighted that Portugal “must be at the forefront of the technological transition that Europe is preparing because “for the first time” it is one of the countries with “the best and largest” reserves of raw materials, namely lithium.

“Portugal cannot fail to be at the forefront of this re-industrialization effort. For the first time in many technological transitions, we are one of the countries that have better and larger natural reserves of the raw material that is at the base of this transition”, said António Costa.

Scale travels: Lago Libidinal, by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha


Under the Scale Travels Residencies, ‘Lago Libidinal‘ was born. Developed in the context of an artistic residency at the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory with Luís Soares Barbosa from the Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation research group, the installation ‘Lago Libidinal’ is a multi-scale system that appears as an extension of the stage piece with the same name.

The surface of an artificial lake serves as a mirrored interface where a viral ecosystem reveals a lymphatic network of inorganic derivatives that feed on the continuous flow of data referring to stock market fluctuations. The aquatic body is a matrix inhabited by lithium, red mercury and bioluminescent fungi that interact with a light mechanism to reveal hidden contaminations and transform them into vectors of contagion.

Musician, visual artist, sound and stage builder, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is the founder of the collective SOOPA and HHY & The Macumbas. Based on his investigations, he develops syncretic scenic actions between the visual arts, dance and sound, exhibits installations and composes pieces for voice, percussion, electronics and resonant space. It investigates areas of intersection between pre-language, otherness, science fiction, sound as a vector of contagion and the tension between synthetic and landscape.

Jonathan is an associated artist at Teatro Municipal do Porto between 2020 and 2022, where he presented the plays “Mercúrio Vermelho” (2020), “Lithium Faust” (2021) and “3x Drill” (2021). It investigates areas of interception between pre-language, otherness, science fiction, sound as a vector of contagion and the tension between the synthetic and the landscape. He showed his work at Unsound, Palais de Tokyo, Culturgest and Serralves, among many other venues.

+ From 12 May to 15 August
+ Free entrance
+ INL Gallery at www.gnration.pt

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Under the Scale Travels Residencies, ‘Lago Libidinal‘ was born. Developed in the context of an artistic residency at the INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory with Luís Soares Barbosa from the Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation research group, the installation ‘Lago Libidinal’ is a multi-scale system that appears as an extension of the stage piece with the same name.

The surface of an artificial lake serves as a mirrored interface where a viral ecosystem reveals a lymphatic network of inorganic derivatives that feed on the continuous flow of data referring to stock market fluctuations. The aquatic body is a matrix inhabited by lithium, red mercury and bioluminescent fungi that interact with a light mechanism to reveal hidden contaminations and transform them into vectors of contagion.

Musician, visual artist, sound and stage builder, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha is the founder of the collective SOOPA and HHY & The Macumbas. Based on his investigations, he develops syncretic scenic actions between the visual arts, dance and sound, exhibits installations and composes pieces for voice, percussion, electronics and resonant space. It investigates areas of intersection between pre-language, otherness, science fiction, sound as a vector of contagion and the tension between synthetic and landscape.

Jonathan is an associated artist at Teatro Municipal do Porto between 2020 and 2022, where he presented the plays “Mercúrio Vermelho” (2020), “Lithium Faust” (2021) and “3x Drill” (2021). It investigates areas of interception between pre-language, otherness, science fiction, sound as a vector of contagion and the tension between the synthetic and the landscape. He showed his work at Unsound, Palais de Tokyo, Culturgest and Serralves, among many other venues.

+ From 12 May to 15 August
+ Free entrance
+ INL Gallery at www.gnration.pt