The SPM Career and Recognition Award 2021 has been awarded to SYNERGY Coordinator Professor Rodrigo Martins, a prestigious international Professor and Researcher and head of CENIMAT/I3N. The Prize will be awarded at a ceremony to be held during MATERIALS 2022 (Marinha Grande, 10-13 April).
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Appointed by the Banco de Portugal, SYNERGY Coordinator Professor Elvira Fortunato is part of a group of experts at European level who will collaborate with the European Central Bank to renew the look of banknotes from 2024 onwards
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SYNERGY invites you to attend our upcoming webinar on “Integrated energy conversion/storage devices: towards planar architectures and emerging concepts “, hosted by Associate Professor Federico Bella, from Politecnico di Torino – POLITO. The webinar will be on Tuesday 14th December 2021 at 15:00 CET and aims to show how solar cells and electrochemical energy storage units can be merged. Whilst there are no specific participation requirements, registration is compulsory to attend.
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For more information please go to the Virtual Training Courses section at https://synergyproject.eu/events/virtual-training-courses/
Luís Pereira, cluster manager of SYNERGY project, is the new candidate for the position of coordinator of the Regional College of Materials Engineering- South Region
Ordem dos Engenheiros , or Order of Engineers, celebrated 85 years of existence as a Professional Order on November the 24th. Celebrations took place at the ‘Cold Greenhouse of Lisbon’ on November the 27th. One of the three Gold Medals was awarded to SYNERGY Coordinator, Professor Elvira Fortunato.
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On November 24th 2021 at 5pm (GMT), Professor Pedro Barquinha hosted a webinar on “Sustainable thin film and nanostructured oxides for flexible and autonomous electronics”. The Portuguese Society of Materials has announced a cycle of online conferences, focused on “Research on Materials within the scope of ERC grants”, bringing together a group of Portuguese researchers to host conferences funded by the European Research Council.The conferences will run for one year and will take place on the last Wednesday of each month by 5 pm (GMT), with an approximate duration of 60 minutes.
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Ms. Sabrina Trano participates in the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2021
Ms. Sabrina Trano, a research assistant on SYNERGY project, participated in the Merck Young Chemists’ Symposium 2021, presenting SYNERGY project and the research carried out at POLITO on batteries. Sabrina participated in the poster session and also gave a presentation.
Many thanks to our POLITO partners for hosting the SYNERGY M12 meeting at their organisation on the 18th and 19th of November. After a year of remote meetings, SYNERGY partners were finally able to meet in person to discuss the project outcomes and plan a series of exciting activities for the upcoming year.
Special thanks once again to Silvia Bodoardo, Federico Bella and Sabrina Trano for such a lovely time.
Another fantastic achievement by Federico Bella, professor of DiSAT Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia (Department of Applied Science and Technology). He received two medals, “Ivano Bertini” and “Giorgio Squinzi”, awarded by the Italian Chemical Society. The medals were awarding his abilities in the area of chemical sciences and his activity in the field of polymeric materials for energy. Full article can be found here.
In an interview for Exame Informática, in November 2021 edition, Professor Rodrigo Martins, Full Professor at FCT|NOVA and Director of CEMOP-UNINOVA, shares his vision on the explanations for the “global chips crisis”.
Being involved in the development of a completely new line of materials, such as transparent electronics or circuits in biodegradable material, such as paper, the SYNERGY Coordinator sees this crisis as an opportunity.
“We need to change the mindset. It is in these moments of cleavage that we feel the need to think differently and create new solutions.”
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