NewSkin Days 2023 Highlights
NewSkin Days 2023 Highlights
Published on 04 May 13:11 (12 months ago) by AquaTTNewSkin Days 2023 was held in La Grande Poste in Bordeaux in the last week of April 2023! It was an active 2-day programme, packed with a mix of networking breaks and technical sessions with 80 participants. A range of sessions highlighted NewSkin facilities, showcases, open calls, and resulting demo-cases and introduced some other related Open Innovation Test Bed facilities, with long coffee and lunch breaks to allow ample time for further discussion and networking. In the evening of day 1, we did a lovely walking visit of the historic centre of Bordeaux, with plenty of time to mingle and chat with fellow participants while taking in the lovely sights of this UNESCO world heritage site before dinner.
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NewSkin Days explored a variety of NewSkin Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) accelerated technologies and market applications, such as: Friction, wear and vibrations reduction; Mass production of textures and coatings; Nano-safe facilities for nano-coatings; Scale-up/testing gas/water membranes; Functional layers: textures and coatings. The NewSkin OITB team and facility users together shared success stories with the audience, highlighting the opportunities for SMEs, Start-ups, research labs and industry to take advantage of these 10 upscaling and 9 testing NewSkin facilities, and route to market services.
In addition to an in-depth exploration of NewSkin OITB facilities and results, and our colleagues from a range of other related EU-funded OITBs gave an overview of their facilities' offerings (Flexfunction2sustain OITB, INN-PRESSME OITB, Convert2Green OITB, and INNOMEM OITB). All of these Open Innovation Test Bed facilities across Europe are accessible to research labs, start-ups, SMEs and industry, to help provide innovators with common access to physical facilities, capabilities and/or services required for the development, testing and upscaling of nanotechnology and advanced materials in industrial environments. The aim of these OITBs is to reduce cost and investment risk, and accelerate time to market for users and innovators (research labs, SMEs, academics, spin-outs and industry).
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NewSkin Days explored a variety of NewSkin Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) accelerated technologies and market applications, such as: Friction, wear and vibrations reduction; Mass production of textures and coatings; Nano-safe facilities for nano-coatings; Scale-up/testing gas/water membranes; Functional layers: textures and coatings. The NewSkin OITB team and facility users together shared success stories with the audience, highlighting the opportunities for SMEs, Start-ups, research labs and industry to take advantage of these 10 upscaling and 9 testing NewSkin facilities, and route to market services.
In addition to an in-depth exploration of NewSkin OITB facilities and results, and our colleagues from a range of other related EU-funded OITBs gave an overview of their facilities' offerings (Flexfunction2sustain OITB, INN-PRESSME OITB, Convert2Green OITB, and INNOMEM OITB). All of these Open Innovation Test Bed facilities across Europe are accessible to research labs, start-ups, SMEs and industry, to help provide innovators with common access to physical facilities, capabilities and/or services required for the development, testing and upscaling of nanotechnology and advanced materials in industrial environments. The aim of these OITBs is to reduce cost and investment risk, and accelerate time to market for users and innovators (research labs, SMEs, academics, spin-outs and industry).
The sessions included:
- Introduction to NewSkin Open Innovation Test Bed facilities, open calls, and results - by NewSkin OITB Project Manager, Carlos del Castillo Bonet (ECCS - European Convention for Constructional Steelwork).
- NewSkin Laser Technologies for advanced surface modifications - including presentations on NewSkin facilities from Girolamo Mincuzzi (ALPhANOV), Francisco Gontad (AIMEN Centro Tecnológico), a NewSkin OITB DemoCase highlight from Mikel Lucas Garcia de Albeniz (Bionic Surface Technologies GmbH) and presentation by moderator Romain HERAULT (Alpha-RLH).
- NewSkin Nano-coatings Facilities: PVD and Sol-Gel - presentations from Tomas Kubart (Uppsala University), Marta Brizuela Parra (TECNALIA), Lorenzo Bautista (Leitat Technological Center) on NewSkin facilities, Laurent Maurin (NewSkin OITB DemoCase from POLYRISE SAS) and moderator: Valentine Glattard (European cluster of ceramics)
- NewSkin Mass production Functional and High-Performance Surfaces: Texturing During Moulding Processes - including NewSkin's Elias Liarte Richart (ITAINNOVA Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón), Mirco Jonkeren ( IDS, Leibniz Universität Hannover (LUH)), Deborah Federici/Paolo Giudici ( ML Engraving srl) and moderator: Dr. Isabelle Tovena-Pecault (ALPHA-RLH).
- NewSkin Nano-enabled Surfaces and Membranes for the Water Industry - including Yan Delaure (Dublin City University), Noemi Fiaschini (Nanofaber), and moderator: Olga Ormond (AquaTT)
- NewSkin OITB Testing Facilities for nano-enabled surfaces - including Patrick Cosemans highlight the state-of-the-art climate chamber facilities at SIRRIS, the harsh lab (Pablo Benguria Uribe) and tribological coatings (Marta Brizuela Parra) testing facilities at TECNALIA, and a NewSkin OITB DemoCase on specific tests for thin films with tribological applications in temperature from Fanny Gouraud & Guillaume Desbordes (CITRA - Centre d'Ingénierie en Traitement de Surface) and moderator Elvin Fetahi (Confindustria Emilia Area Centro).
- Open Innovation Test Beds facilities introduction to a range of different but related EU-Funded OITBs available to SMEs, startups, research labs and industry - including NewSkin OITB (Carlos del Castillo Bonet (ECCS)), Flexfunction2sustain OITB (Matthias Fahland (Fraunhofer FEP)), INN-PRESSME OITB (Andrea Aguilar Sánchez (VTT)), Convert2Green OITB (John Fahlteich (KETMarket GmbH)), and INNOMEM OITB (Viviente José Luis (TECNALIA) ). OITB session moderator: Emilie SCHEERS (DREAM Cluster Water & Environment / France Water Team).
NewSkin Days 2023, "La Grande Poste", Bordeaux, France