New Materials for a Better Life! 2024 Workshop, to be Held in Nov, 27

On November 27, BCMaterials will hold a new edition of its annual workshop New Materials for a Better Life! at its headquarters in Leioa. Under the subtitle ‘Materializing the future: fostering social and economic impact of basic science on advanced materials’, the event will focus on the technological transfer of advanced materials basic science through innovation.

The workshop will bring together experts in policies and strategies for innovation, tools for technology transfer and, of course, success stories from companies based in the Basque Country or closely related to it.

New Materials for a Better Life! 2024 will begin at 9:00 a.m. with an opening session in which institutional representatives from BCMaterials, the UPV/EHU and the Basque Government will participate. The closing of the day is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. with a lunch/networking after an interesting round table.

Among the 15 guest speakers of the event are, to name just a few: Amaia Esquisabel, Research Director of the Department of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government; María José Tomas, from the Centre for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI); Alaitz Landaluze, general coordinator of Innovation Policies at Innobasque; Amaia Martínez, Director of Technology Transfer at SPRI; Rikardo Bueno, director of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA); Beatriz Alonso, director of R&D at Graphenea; Juan Pablo Esquivel, co-founder and scientific advisor at Fuelium; and Larraitz Añorga, CEO of Biolan.

Programme and registration on the website

The complete programme and registration form are available on the event website nm4bl.org. Attendance is free until full capacity is reached, so it is necessary to register in advance on the website.

Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, scientific director of BCMaterials, is very excited about the 2024 edition of the workshop. “Materials, being a key enabling technology, offer a great opportunity for value generation through disruptive solutions and technologies to address key social challenges. This has made it possible to develop an appropriate ecosystem to support the transition from basic knowledge to technology, and from technology to product,” he says.

In Lanceros-Méndez’s opinion, the workshop will allow us to learn about and discuss “this ecosystem, which encompasses institutions ranging from policy makers to funding bodies and includes different advisory and support institutions, allows entrepreneurs to move forward in the realization of what always begins as a beautiful dream… and always faces a tough competitive reality.”