Activities

A core priority of the BRIDGE project was to equip researchers with the entrepreneurial mindset and practical tools required to translate laboratory excellence into high-impact industrial innovations. Through dedicated technology transfer workshops led by innovation managers from IIT and Fraunhofer IVV, and the strategic enrolment of FORTH in the EU-funded WiderAdvance Facility, our team successfully…

To effectively close the R&I gap and secure long-term scientific independence, the BRIDGE project served as a strategic catalyst for upgrading FORTH’s laboratory capabilities. By transferring best practices from IIT and Fraunhofer IVV, the Ultrafast Laser Micro- and Nano-Processing (ULMNP) group at IESL-FORTH successfully integrated state-of-the-art synthesis, optical characterization, and data tracking tools that remain…

Mobility and reciprocal knowledge transfer were the core operational engines of the BRIDGE Twinning action. A total of 41 short- and long-term staff visits and secondments were successfully executed between the consortium partners. This systematic program balanced 22 outward secondments of FORTH researchers and administrators with 19 inward visits from world-class IIT and Fraunhofer IVV…

A vital component of the BRIDGE project’s dissemination strategy was the execution of a high-profile seminar and colloquium series. A total of 19 scientific seminars were delivered across the partner institutions, open to the wider institutional communities of IESL-FORTH, the University of Crete (UoC), the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU), and our international partners. Attracting significant…

Human capital development and intense technical training were at the heart of the BRIDGE project. Across the project’s duration, a rigorous and structured training curriculum comprising 12 advanced courses was successfully completed, delivering a total of 121 course-hours. This program combined comprehensive multi-day courses hosted at FORTH by senior researchers from the Fondazione Istituto Italiano…

The purpose of the visit was to discuss practical aspects of BRIDGE project, related to infrastructures of a chemistry lab, such as Schlenk line and other small equipment. He also visited the Materials Characterization Facility.

Athanasia Kostopoulou, Konstantinos Brintakis and Eleni Petala visited IVV in Friezing, Germany. Training on breath research (theory) and in analytical techniques (theory and practical) has been carried out. Furthermore, project management, administration and technology transfer courses were taken place.

Konstantinos Brintakis visited Department of Nanochemistry at IIT for training in the chemistry synthesis facilities in IIT.

The first BRIDGE workshop was organized by FORTH on 9-10 November 2023.
Four seminars/presentations were given by the leading partners during this workshop.