At this year’s S3E Start Open Day, celebrated at the Tivoli BBVA Theatre in Lisbon, we interviewed the participating research teams to find out more about their projects and how they’re planning to implement the knowledge they’ve gained through our program to take their innovation from the lab to the the market.

NemAway is one of the 14 teams that was selected to join the 2024 edition of S3E Start, our program of support for deep tech research and entrepreneurship in Southern Europe, coordinated by our South3E partner HiSeedTech. Watch below the full interview to hear all about their work and their experience on Start!

“We decided to join S3E Start because we needed a push in our transfer of knowledge from academia to industry. It’s been a very important experience for us and we’ve learned a lot from this program — from how to communicate to investors to how to build a business project from scratch.” — Cláudia Vicente

This project is pioneered by researchers from University of Évora, including: Cláudia Vicente, Margarida Espada, Pedro Barbosa and Madalena Mendonça. With the aim of developing bio-based and sustainable solutions to combat plant-parasitic nematodes, they’ve created NemAway, a fast and efficient action bionematicide that helps to protect crops and foster environmentally-friendly practices in agriculture.

Want to meet the rest of the teams? Access the full playlist featuring interviews with other participating teams.

If you missed the S3E Start Open Day, you can watch the full livestream recording with all the teams’ pitches or our event recap for the top highlights.


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