The KTH team in project BARBARA, including Prof. Francisco Vilaplana, MSc. Reskandi Chastelia Rudjito and Dr. Amparo Jiménez, met last week in the facilities of CELABOR with their senior scientist and project manager, Mahmoud Hamzaoui and Stéphane Kohnen. The meeting served to clarify technical points about the extraction and modification of corn starch and exchange further information on the progress of the BARBARA project.
This June 3-6th, the 6th International Congress on Green Process Engineering will be held in Toulouse, France (website here) . The Conference will cover a vast variety of advanced topics such as activation methods, green solvents, biocatalytic processes, biomass valorisation, biorefineries, energy supply, risk management or education on green process engineering.
Prof. Alfonso Jiménez and Prof. Mª Carmen Garrigós, from the UA team, met this week in the facilities of CELABOR with their senior scientist and project manager, Mahmoud Hamzaoui and Stéphane Kohnen in Belgium. The meeting served to clarify technical points about the optimization and scale-up of the extraction processes from the different agro-wastes on-site and exchange further information on the progress of the BARBARA project.
The PI members of both the Group of Vision and Colour and the Research Group on Polymers and Nanomaterials Analysis, Francisco M. Martínez and Mª Carmen Garrigós, were interviewed at the UA local radio. The radio program aims to disseminate science to the wider audience and devoted 30 min to ask about the rationale, scope and structure of the BARBARA project.
This monday, The 11th national forum on industrial applications of nanotechnology was held at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. TECNO was there, presenting the most recent applications of nanotechnology in the manufacture of biopolymer pieces with advanced aesthetical properties, either within the BARBARA as well as in other nanotechnoogy reated projects of the strat-up company. In the BARBARA project, different pigments, antimicrobials and fragrance compounds are being incorporated into layered nanoclays at the nanoscale level.
The European Bio-based industries joint undertaking (BBI-JU) organized the BBI Stakeholders day on the 6th and 7th of December in Brussels. This Stakeholder Forum was a one-day public event dedicated to engaging directly in dialogue with BBI JU’s stakeholders. All 65 BBI approved projects were exhibited to the open public in different stands on December 7th.
The coordinators in the BARBARA project, AITIIP Technology Center, hosted last week a working session of the Automotive Cluster Innovation Commission of Aragon (CAAR) in their faciities in Zaragoza.
Nurel sales manager Mr. Carlos Gil and Dr. Lidia Garcia (TECNO) participated this week in the 12th edition of the annual European Bioplastics Conference among an impressive speaker line-up of more than 300 senior bioplastics decision makers from across the bioplastics value chain, policy bodies, NGOs, and brand owners (link to the Conference).
The Technology Centre AITIIP has been invited as coordinators of project Barbara to present the project in the open Conference Days "Verde que te quiero verde" (green, I like you green), held in Zaragoza, Spain. Our coordinator, Dr. Berta Gonzalvo, will join discussion amongst well-known national personalities, journalists and authorities, within the session "food and food waste" on thursday 30th November.
Project Barbara was featured in the most important newspaper in the region of Alicante, Spain (web version). With the original headline "the palette of colours is stretched", the news article focuses on the work performed by the two teams in the University of Alicante, the Nanobiopol Group and the Group of Vision and Colour. The latter one is in charge of creating new colours from the natural extracts provided by the former.
