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/

 

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.

Nanotechnology at Semana da Economia 2022 in Braga


From the 23rd to the 26th of May, INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory is present at the fifth edition of the Economy Week, where the central theme is: “ECONOMY AND SUSTAINABILITY”. This is an event organized annually by InvestBraga, with the support of its strategic partners, which addresses various economic topics, and involves different types of events, promoting the debate of ideas between economic agents, institutions, professionals and specialists, as well as society as a whole, on a particular topic of general interest.

INL Team is there showcasing our main activities that are focused on six clusters: Health, Food, Energy, Environment, ICT and Future Emerging Technologies, which complement each other and provide a base for interdisciplinary interactions between our research.

Minister António Costa e Silva, Minister of Economy and Maritime Affairs of Portugal also visited our booth and highlighted the importance of INL’s work in building a new future, a new economy.

For Ricardo Rio, president of the Municipality of Braga and InvestBraga, “the Economy Week is a remarkable milestone in the economic life of our municipality, having the ability to aggregate a set of entities that, during these days, will debate relevant topics for the development of Braga”. The mayor also emphasizes that this initiative will “be able to combine moments of debate, but also training and qualification of human resources”.

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).

INL hosted LEARN Kick-off meeting


LEARN is a four-year project funded under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) – Environment and Health and will focus its work on the status of air quality in schools and its impact on the cognition of children.

The project kicked off last week at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga – Portugal, under INL’s coordination and in partnership with other 10 premiere partners from 8 different European countries – Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium), Envirometrics (Greece), KU Leuven (Belgium), Hasselt Universiteit(Belgium), MANN + HUMMEL (Germany), Nanotechnology Industries Association (Belgium), imec The Netherlands (Holland), AlveoliX (Switzerland), Aarhus University (Denmark), FI Group (Spain).

From INL, there will be two research groups involved in this unique project – the Nanosafety research group that will lead the work together with the Medical Devices research group.

Projects under this framework are directed towards the Key Strategic Orientation KSO-D ‘Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society of Horizon Europe’s Strategic Plan 2021-2024 also contributing to the following impact areas: ‘Good health and high-quality accessible health care’, ‘Climate change mitigation and adaptation’, and ‘Clean and healthy air, water and soil’

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LEARN is a four-year project funded under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) – Environment and Health and will focus its work on the status of air quality in schools and its impact on the cognition of children.

The project kicked off last week at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory in Braga – Portugal, under INL’s coordination and in partnership with other 10 premiere partners from 8 different European countries – Vrije Universiteit Brussels (Belgium), Envirometrics (Greece), KU Leuven (Belgium), Hasselt Universiteit(Belgium), MANN + HUMMEL (Germany), Nanotechnology Industries Association (Belgium), imec The Netherlands (Holland), AlveoliX (Switzerland), Aarhus University (Denmark), FI Group (Spain).

From INL, there will be two research groups involved in this unique project – the Nanosafety research group that will lead the work together with the Medical Devices research group.

Projects under this framework are directed towards the Key Strategic Orientation KSO-D ‘Creating a more resilient, inclusive and democratic European society of Horizon Europe’s Strategic Plan 2021-2024 also contributing to the following impact areas: ‘Good health and high-quality accessible health care’, ‘Climate change mitigation and adaptation’, and ‘Clean and healthy air, water and soil’