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Wednesday, November 27th, 2024. From 9:00 to 14:00
Auditorium, Martina Casiano Building
UPV/EHU Science Park, Bizkaia Campus, Leioa.

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Attendance at the event will be in person and requires prior registration.

Deadline for registration: November 21st

New Materials for a Better Life Workshop 2024
Materializing the future: fostering social and economic impact of basic science on advanced materials

We are experiencing strong societal and economic changes closely linked to the digital and energy transitions, the increasing demand on more sustainable energies, materials and processes and to a novel approach to biomedical challenges, based on preventive and personalized medicine.

Many of those rapid technological developments are based on the implementation of new generation of materials, either stimuli responsive, multifunctional, with specifically designed characteristics or compatible with novel fabrication technologies, among others.

Materials being a key enabling technology offers therefore a great opportunity for the generation of value though disruptive materials-based solutions and technologies to address key society challenges.

The recognition of this fact has allowed the development and implementation of a suitable ecosystem to support the transition from basic knowledge to technology and from technology to product. This ecosystem, encompassing institutions ranging from policy makers to funding bodies and including different advising and supporting institutions, allows entrepreneurs to move forward in the realization of what always begin as a nice dream… and always faces a hard competitive reality.

The present workshop will allow to discuss, in a comprehensive way, the path from basic science to innovation. Presentations on Policy Framework, Innovation Strategies, Tools for Tech Transfer and Fight & Success stories will allow a rich interaction and feedback aiming to promote and reinforce the will to develop “materials that matter” as, following the great Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”.

BCMaterials Scientific Director