The Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials - CIC biomaGUNE is a non-profit research organization specialised in Molecular imaging, Regenerative medicine and Nanotechnology, located in the Science and Technology Park of Gipuzkoa (San Sebastian, Spain).

A key element to the center's mission is its commitment to support competitiveness of SMEs through the provision of research and technology services supported by our research groups and technological platforms.

The activity of CIC biomaGUNE is conducted by a team of 12 international and dynamic research groups, which develop high- level research at the interface between chemistry, physics and biology, with particular emphasis on the properties and applications of nanostructures at the biomolecular level. The final aim of CIC biomaGUNE’s research is to contribute to understanding the way in which biological systems interact with nanometer- sized materials, at the molecular level.

The center counts with a unique research infrastructure equipped… Molecular and Functional Imaging Facility

Housed within 900 m2, the Molecular and Functional Imaging Facility at CIC biomaGUNE is an integrated bioimaging structure that offers state-of-the-art preclinical imaging instrumentation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), Computerized Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI ), Optical/Fluorescence and Ultrasound (US) Imaging. I t includes a fully equipped radiochemistry laboratory with a biomedical cyclotron, advanced microscopy equipment, a dedicated animal housing facility for rodents which holds AAALAC accreditation, and complementary equipment including gamma spectrometry and autoradiography.

Technological platforms

Managed by specialized Platform Managers, provide technical and scientific support to the research activities conducted at CIC biomaGUNE. They include the following state-of-the-art research infrastructures:

NuclearMagnetic Resonance (NMR) – 500MHz NMR: Provides essential…. CIC biomaGUNE offers a wide range of services to industry and to SMEs in particular. We proudly make use of our first class infrastructure to support competitiveness and innovation in companies by providing them with front edge technology and research services. 

We offer standardised services of materials characterisation, specially at the nanometer scale, by applying a wide range of physicochemical techniques with sophisticated equipment, and pre-clinical studies of biodistribution, toxicity and performance of drugs and medical devices through our Molecular and Functional Imaging Facility. Additionally, we offer our expertise to design and produce nanomaterials, such as plasmonic or active nanoparticles, and nanostructured surfaces.

Besides, a wide range of customised research services are available through our research groups to solve innovation or product development needs.
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Insight is one of the largest data analytics centres in Europe. It undertakes high-impact research, seeks to derive value from Big Data and provides innovative technology solutions for industry and society by enabling better decision-making.

The Insight Centre for Data Analytics is a research centre, focused on the domain of data analytics. Its research community strives to use excellent science to create new knowledge in data analytics and its applications, while also delivering industry impact and economic benefit. Insight is one of Europe’s largest data analytics research organisations, with 400+ researchers, more than 80 industry partners and over €120 million of funding. This national research centre is funded by Science Foundation Ireland and is a joint initiative between 4 of Ireland’s universities; University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin City University (DCU), University College Cork (UCC) and National University of Ireland Galway as well as a number of affiliated bodies. Each of Insight's main… . Testing, design, optimisation, predictive model building, recommender systems, connected health solutions, data security, data warehouses, decision making, multimodal data analysis, sensing and actuation, data governance, deep learning, sensing technology
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EDI provides services in the following technologies: Artificial intelligence, Connectivity, Big data, IoT, Mobility technologies and enterprise mobility, Robotics, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.

EDI in Riga, Latvia is a non-profit public research institute founded in 1960. Currently, EDI is specializing in the development of Smart Embedded Cooperative Systems in fields of: health, mobility, space, production, social challenges, safety and security. EDI has more than 80 researchers working on innovative technologies in electronics and computer science. At the moment, main fields of competence includes signal and image processing (incl. AI), development of cyber-physical and embedded systems, intelligent transport systems (incl. connected and automated driving), hardware and software prototyping, system integration, wireless sensor networks (incl. IoT), intelligent devices, development of sensors, radars, biometrics, wearables, precise timing, robotics, etc.

EDI has implemented several national… EDI has an unique state-of-the-art infrastructure to support local and international SMEs. For example, EDI has a 100+ node heterogeneous sensor network and wireless network testbed distributed around 7-floor building for validation and research in sensor network protocols & wireless network protocols. Additionally 50 mobile nodes are available on site for on site deplyments (e.g. in customers factory). Besides, EDI has WSN hardware prototyping test bench EDImote developed with flexibility of prototyping, performance monitoring and hardware and software debug assistance in mind (enabling fast prototyping for virtually any hardware). Also, high performance workstations for computation, signal processing, visualization and design (Matlab, Simulink, Labview, Quartus, Tanner Tools Pro, etc.) are available for use. PCB designing and simulation tools Altium Designer and fast prototyping systems (LPKF ProtoMat-S62, LPKF MiniContac-RS, Xytronic-IR620 Preheater, Unox thermal equipment) for multilayer PCB design…. EDI provides services in the following technologies: Artificial intelligence, Connectivity, Big data, IoT, Mobility technologies and enterprise mobility, Robotics, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies.

Market sectors

Agriculture, hunting and forestry
Construction
Transport, storage and communication
Education
Health and social work
Other Manufacturing
Other markets

TRL Focus

TRL2 – Technology concept and/or application formulated
TRL3 – Analytical and experimental critical function and/or characteristic proof of concept
TRL4 – Component and/or breadboard validation in laboratory environment
TRL5 – Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment
TRL6 – System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment
TRL7 – System prototype demonstration in an operational environment

Services provided

Awareness creation
Ecosystem building, scouting, brokerage, networking
Visioning and Strategy Development for Businesses
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CeNTI - Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials is a private non-profit R&D institute located in the north of Portugal. It is an Institute of New Technologies with multi-sectoral orientation, equipped with cutting-edge technology that promotes activities of Research, Technological Development, Innovation and Engineering in the fields of smart and functional materials and systems.

Founded in 2006, it is the result of a fruitful cooperation of 3 Universities, 2 Technological Centres and 1 Institute of New Technologies, all recognized for their national and international relevance: University of Minho, University of Porto, University of Aveiro, CITEVE - Technological Centre of the Textile and Clothing Industries of Portugal, CTIC - Technological Centre of Leather Industries, and CEIIA - Centre for Excellence and Innovation in the Automotive Industry.

CeNTI explores advanced technologies enabling the developing, testing, prototyping and scaling-up of nanotechnology solutions for the market, surface… . Concept Development

R&D

PoC

Prototyping

Technology Transfer

 
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Tecnologia & Design supports the most innovative manufacturing companies in the various phases of product development, from the concept to the aesthetic and functional prototype and through the design and engineering phases of new products. We are a design department at the service of our customers, also thanks to sophisticated 3D CAD software tools used for the concept, solid modelling structural analysis and documents management.

We have in home all 3d printing plastics technologies, include SLA, SLS, FDM, Polijet and Vacuum Casting.

Tecnologia & Design is becoming a world-class technology park reference point for southern Europe as a member of Stratasys Global Manufacturing Network.
We have in home 1 SLA System (SLA 5000) with SOMOS EVOLVE 128 RESIN, 3 EOS SLS Systems (P390-P395), 3 Full Material FDM Stratasys Systems (F400-F450-F900), 1 Polijet J750 System and 1 MCP004 VC System.

We have also a 3D Scan, Reverse Engineering and Industrial Design Office.
. Our 3 most important areas are: training, prototyping and industrial design
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The Institute of Polymer Processing is researching all kinds of processes for processing thermoplastic polymers. The fundamental and application-oriented research is done in the fields of materials and the production processes. It is driven by the goal to gain a deeper scientific understanding and the systematic control of the processes for an economic production of ideal products with minimum resources. The funding comes from the government, different funding agencies or directly from the industry.

The services we provide, starts with the formulation of innovative tailor-made compounds, from producing small samples up to semi industrial scales. The properties of these compounds and polymers are characterised inline or offline so that all relevant material properties are available for further processes or fluid dynamic simulations and for understanding these processes. The results of these simulation can be validated in our laboratory with industrial equipment.

Questions arising during the development… The equipment at the Institute of Polymer Processing can be divided into laboratory scale and industrial equipment. For the characterisation of the polymers there are thermodynamically measurements as specific heat capacity, and density measurements available. The viscosity can be measured with rotational and piston driven rheometers, but also inline measurements for extruders, compounders and injection moulding machines are possible.

The compounds and the recycling can be done using kneaders for small scales and co rotating twin screw extruders for larger quantities. In extrusion we can provide a pipe and a film extrusion line, while other extruders are available for foaming (physical or chemical), for fluoropolymers and for filaments. Injection moulding machines are available in different sizes and one is especially equipped for Powder Injection Moulding. In Additive Manufacturing there are different material extrusion machines as well as an Arburg freeformer available.
. Our research focus is on the development and selection of suitable polymeric materials for new applications, the design and construction of plastic components and composites, the development, optimization and application of suitable processing technologies.

Material data for simulation, thermoplastics, rubbers and elastomers, WPC and PIM-Feedstocks
Process and simulation, component design, process development and robust process management
Testing and analysis, polymer selection, development, testing and identification
Sustainability, process analysis, Life Cycle Assessment
Custom tailor-made courses in education and training

 
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CATIE (Centre Aquitain des Technologies de l’Information et Electroniques), a non-profit organization created in 2014, is a technology transfer center specialized in digital technology. Its main mission is to support SMEs and intermediate size companies in their digital transformation and to help them adopt and integrate the related technologies.

Backed by a team of 40 employees (mostly PhDs and engineers), CATIE is closely connected with the local academic research centers it collaborates with on programs to prepare the technologies of tomorrow. Furthermore, CATIE works with regional companies, digital technologies experts (start-up to large companies…) and frequently participate in EU founded
projects.

Within its scope of services, CATIE shares its expertise but also human and material resources, that might be missing or undersized in the companies it works with, as well as a recognized industrial know-how in technologies integration to support their digital development.

CATIE offers an… https://6tron.io/homepage/

https://www.vaniila.ai/
. 3 TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION PLATFORMS

CATIE fulfils its missions by participating in research and transfer programs, but also by implementing open and collaborative “Technological Innovation Platforms”, i.e. experimental environment to develop and transfer new technologies to companies : 6TRON focuses on the Internet of Things while the two others address Artificial Intelligence (VANILLA) and Behavioural and Cognitive Assessments (PEAC²H) for a better integration of Human in the
acceptability of complex and innovative systems.

The Human-Centered Systems team is developing Peac²h to enable companies to better integrate Human being into complex and innovative systems by offering online services, tailor-made or turnkey assessment protocols and methodological tools, among other items.

The Algorithms and Data team has developed Vaniila to help companies access Artificial Intelligence by offering working and calculation environments including technological building bricks, use cases and tutorials to…. Yes. service.

Founded in 1995 as a Consortium formed by the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Computer Vision Center is a non-profit institution located in the UAB’s Bellaterra Campus in Barcelona, Spain. With an outstanding team of more than 130 researchers and technicians, 2000 m2 devoted to R&D and the most advanced resources in hardware and software, the CVC now holds an international reputation for innovative research, technology transfer, and the development of spin-offs in the field of Computer Vision. Its mission is to develop prestigious research with international impact, to transfer knowledge to companies and society, and to train scientists and high-level professionals relevant in Europe.

The CVC performs exciting and pioneering research in Computer Vision, in particular in the following key areas: Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, Medical Imaging, Object Recognition, Document Analysis, Image Sequence Evaluation,  Colour in Context (Texture), Machine Vision,… The Computer Vision Centre has top-of-the-line computational infrastructure, necessary for the machine learning tasks of the projects. The CVC provides access to GPU clusters as well as GPUs for individual use by the researchers, for a total of  ~2,500 teraflops of deep learning horsepower. In addition, the computation resources include CPU clusters, networked and local (high-speed SSD) storage, and high-speed connectivity.

The Computer Vision Center is the host organisation of the Library Living Lab, 4-helix innovation ecosystem which links all the 250 Public Libraries in the Barcelona Provincial Network. The Library Living Lab is a unique infrastructure for citizen engagement and is the base for the Citizen Science actions associated to the Computer Vision Centre. The Library Living Lab is Member of the European Network of Living Labs, connecting more than 130 labs from 39 countries from Europe and the world. This endows the Library Living Lab with an effective power for scalability of innovation…. CVC provides several research and innovation services through strategic collaborations with small and key large international companies with the aim of doing state-of-the art research in computer vision, mainly in the fields of autonomous driving, medical imaging, media and future industry 4.0.

These collaborations are mainly based on:

Collaborative public and private research agreements with key industry partners.
Industrial doctoral degree.
Proof of concept with SME companies to boost digitisation of industrial processes to reinforce the competitiveness of local industrial network.

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KCL provides piloting and laboratory services in the field of biomaterial processing. We offer a unique pilot and laboratory scale environment for testing, production, scale-ups, demonstrations along with process design and construction located in a centralized site. KCL is an ideal platform for developing existing products and processes. It also serves as an innovative new product developer derived from furthering the science of paper and board. Biomaterial based new products can be found and developed through complete utilization of KCL’s advanced equipment and expertise.

Biomaterial processing and stock preparation equipment for

Slushing
LC refining
TMP/CTMP refiner
Screening
Thickening: Filter press, Disc filter, Drum filter, Screw press
Handling of materials (e.g. chemical treating, heating): 4mᵌ pressurized 8 bar reactor, Atmospheric tanks with mixers
Hot air dryer
Preparing and serving pulps for paper machine trials
Converting of all kinds of biomaterials for further processing
Steam heating
Automation system
Data acquisition system

Foam forming paper machine
Pilot coater equipped with

Roll applicator (blade/rod)
SDTA (blade/rod)
Optiblade +
Jet application (OpticoatJet) (blade/rod)
MSP (Opti-Sizer)
3-layer curtain
Spray +

Multical Optiload / supercalender
Printing park

Heatset web offset printing machine
Sheetfed offset printing machine
High Speed inkjet test printing line

Finishing

Winders
Guillotine
Sheet cutters

Wide range of laboratory…. KCL provides an infrastructure where customers can test their development ideas both in laboratory and in pilot scale. We are even able to tailor our processes with customers' own equipment. Our in-depth knowledge and expertise are included in the services we provide our customers. Our efficient staff has experience from different types of pilot or laboratory trials.

In pilot scale we can build process prototypes for new product development, or we can produce product prototypes that can be further refined in the following process steps in pilot or even in industrial scale. We are also able to provide small-scale production in order to support the market entry of a new product.

We serve all customers with the highest degree of integrity and confidentiality.
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a private non-profit research foundation, established by the government of the Autonomous Province of Trento (Italy). It employs about 410 researchers, graduates, post-doc students, and visiting professors, and conducts research in several areas, organized in different research centers in both scientific and humanistic topics.

Throughout 50 years of history, FBK has developed a broad network of domestic and international alliances and partnerships, hosting and attending international congresses and conferences, publishing thousands of papers, dozens of patents and innovative ideas.

The Bruno Kessler Center in Information and Communication Technology (FBK-ICT Irst Center) focuses on high quality research with impact to market and society. FBK- ICT Irst (formerly simply called IRST) is an internationally renowned center established in 1986 for conducting research on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It was the first center in Italy fully dedicated to AI and it is still the… The Kore system is made up of about 1.436 cores (based on Intel Xeon processors) and 439TB of distributed storage, interconnected both among and within computers by a high speed network ranging from 1Gbit/s to 10Gbit/s with some branches running on InfiniBand, a low latency network featuring very high throughput. In the last years some node for GPGPU calculation are been installed: at the moment The Kore system has 6 nodes with two Nvidia Tesla K80 cards, 1 node with 4 Nvidia Tesla V100 cards and 1 node with 8 Nvidia GTX1080TI cards to perform parallel programming on the CUDA platform.

This is in a renovation phase, redefining technologies and structure.
. The Line offers an approach of research driven by technology transfer, following these phases: (i) direct research efforts on themes of practical relevance; (ii) develop support tools at high TRL; (iii) transfer the results in applicative setting; (iv) identify new themes of practical relevance.

Offered services are of design, prototyping, testing, validation and development of innovative solutions with specific attention for the fields of: Optical Metrology; Technologies of Vision; Machine Translation; Open IoT; Embedded Systems and Software Engineering.
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