Five IDAEA research projects participated in the EBTon hackathon, from which three have been selected for the next step. | Mercè Ratera
On the 3rd and 4th of July, the CSIC held the hackathon EBTon to select the best projects from technology-based companies that bring scientific results to the market. Celebrated at the CosmoCaixa Museum in Barcelona, the event has brought together CSIC scientists from all over Spain, as well as business mentors and specialists in technology transfer. Five Principal Investigators from IDAEA-CSIC and their teams have participated: Patricia Córdoba, Sílvia Lacorte, Mar Viana, Enric Vázquez-Suñé, and Joan Martí. From 9 finalist projects, 3 belong to IDAEA (Recopps from Patricia Córdoba, Ceramic Passive Samplers from Sílvia Lacorte, and Multirisk, from Joan Martí) and will pass for the next phase: a Pitch Competition on July 17 at the CSIC Delegation in Barcelona and in which the 4 winning projects will be selected.
Up, from left to right, the IDAEA’s finalist projects: P. Córdoba’s team and the Recopps project, the passive samplers of S. Lacorte and her team, and Joan Martín’s team and Multirisk project. Bottom, from left to right: M. Viana and A. Maín with the Breath project, and E. Vazquez’s team and the Hydrotools project. | Mercè Ratera
EBTon is part of the activities promoted by CSIC’s HUB Converge, a hackathon for the creation of knowledge-based companies (EBC or spin-offs), and a new space for meeting and co-creation between researchers, companies, and social agents.
The event was organised by the Vice-Presidency for Knowledge Transfer of CSIC, with the collaboration of the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, and was aimed at CSIC research teams that have ideas to develop solutions to current challenges such as adapting to climate change, energy, new materials, AI, biomedicine, nanotechnology, etc. The winning projects will receive individualised business mentoring during the following months and funding of up to €20,000 to advance their business ideas and bring them to market.
“This is the first time that CSIC has held an event of this type to foster the creation of new companies from its centers”, has explained Javier Etxabe, who heads the CSIC’s Industrial Property and Entrepreneurship Support Area.
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