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THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY MEETS AT THE UPCT TO AGREE ON MORE JOINT STUDIES AND RESEARCH

Published on January 28, 2022 Updated on January 28, 2022
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on the January 28, 2022

A hundred representatives from the 8 partners of EUt+ will join and meet in the Universidad Polytechnica of Cartagena from the 1st of February to the 4th of February.

Researchers, students and non-academic staff from the 8 Universities of Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Darmstadt (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Limassol (Cyprus), Riga (Latvia), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Troyes (France), and Cartagena (Spain), partners in the EUt+ , will continue the co-building of the future European University of Technology.

Within the framework of EUt+, a scientific meeting on nanotechnology and an event for students interested in entrepreneurship will be held this week too.

Progress are planned to be reached on joint study programmes and the creation of more international research institutes and laboratories. The meeting of the European University of Technology, which is being held in Cartagena for the first time, will give new impetus to this technological European campus made of eight universities from eight European Union countries.

 

Conferences in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology is a fast-growing research field. Exchanging complementary know-how in this domain between Eut+ research teams will contribute to build an outstanding scientific ambitious project, in a competitive European landscape.

One of the institutes already created, the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Institute, is also holding a scientific meeting next week in Cartagena, which will feature some thirty presentations by experts in this field from the eight universities. "It will be in person and online and will be recorded for open access. We will deal with a wide range of topics related to the nanometric scale of matter, from photonics to biomedicine, as well as quantum technologies and applications in electronics and biology," explains workshop coordinator and UPCT researcher. Prof. Javier Cerrillo.
 

Innovation and entrepneurship for all : staff, students and society

The meeting will also help organise the second phase of the 'Innovate European University of Technology' (Inno-EUt+) project, in which "we will increase the number and intensity of the actions to promote entrepreneurship that are already being carried out," says Antonia Madrid, coordinator of Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the European University of Technology.

The aim of the Inno-EUT+ project is to promote entrepreneurship and boost the entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial and innovative skills of the students, faculty and staff who are part of the European University of Technology. Tuesday's event will be streamed live at https://bit.ly/innoEUT_feb1
 

Entrepreneurs from six countries present their business projects in Cartagena

Innovative business ideas from the South, West, North and East of the European Union will be presented on Tuesday, 1 February at the 'Start-up meeting and demoday' event. Entrepreneurial students from the technical universities of Cartagena, Cluj-Napoca, Cyprus, Dublin, Riga and Sofia, as well as a start-up mentored in the LAB-7 project, will present the business projects they have developed during this academic year thanks to the Inno-EUT+ project, financed by the European Institute of Technology.

The meeting of entrepreneurs, which will be held in Cartagena along with the other meetings of the European University of Technology (EUt+), will begin with a talk by representatives from the companies ODILO and Biyectiva. These companies participate in the Network of UPCT Chairs, and they will explain their experience as consolidated startups.
Date of update 28 janvier 2022