MEET & JOINTHE S3E COMMUNITY
S3E is building the major Deep Tech innovation ecosystem in Southern Europe
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S3E experts
START mentors
Adriana Esteves
Alípio Torre
Ana Alexandra Pereira
António Dinis
Bruno Primo Diniz
Cátia Magro
Fatih Yalçın
Gabriella Esposito
Isabel Moutinho
Jaime Souza
Jorge Martins
Luís Dias Ramos
Luís Gomes
Luísa Marques
Maria Cruz Garcia
Marisa Loureiro
Paulo Osswald
Paulo Vaz Guimarães
Richard Hampson
Rute Sousa
CHARGE mentors
Anna Andersen Rolsma
Cipriano Lomba
Elias Nikolakopoulos
Maria Boura
Pedro Nascimento
Vassiliki Koumpli
Laura Cifuentes
Ilija Stojanovic
Sandra Saiz Balbastre
Christina Deligianni
Adamantios Koumpis
Deep Tech Brokers
Angel Gonzalez
Dimitris Papageorgiou
Fokion Tzourdas
Gaetano Volpe
José Eduardo Amorim de Sousa
Konstantinos Bouas
Konstantinos Kalogerakis
Natalia Mykhaylova
Pablo Tedone
Anna Andersen Rolsma
Evaluators
Adelaide Alves
Alexandra Garatzogianni
Epaminondas Christophilopoulos
João Maia
Piotr Andrzej Oszytko
Sergio Mayo
Denisa Delija
Theofanis Raptis
Stéphane Ruiz-Coupeau
Josué Iglesias
Konstantinos (Dino) Liolios
S3E participants
START selected research teams
BioMEMs: BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems for hard tissue engineering
The research team is improving existing metal implants by depositing a bioactive coating to establish a strong connection between bone tissue and the surface of metallic implants.
Team
Maxim Ivanov, Júlio Rocha, Noelle Zanini – University of Aveiro
Country
Portugal
Breast 4.0: AR-enabled breast cancer localization
The research team is developing a novel medical device that can visualize malignant tissue in real-time inside the patient’s breast and within the operating room.
Team
Tiago Marques, João Santinha, Pedro Gouveia – Clinical Center Champalimaud
Country
Portugal
BUCKS$$$: Brine Utilisation for CO2 to be ‘Koncretely’ Sequestered, Solidified and Stored
The research team is developing a process that efficiently produces carbonates (magnesium, calcium, sodium) which are high-value products for use in infrastructure, industry and agriculture.
Team
Kun V Tian, Isabella Romeo – Sapienza University of Rome
Gregory Chasse – Sapienza University of Rome + Queen Mary University of London
Country
Italy, UK
CAVI
The research team is developing a reactor that will revolutionize liquid processing and is currently testing it for improving processes in wastewater treatment plants.
Team
Jurij Gostisa – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Tadej Stepisnik – National Technical University of Athens
Mojca Zupanc – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Matevz Dular – Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
Country
Slovenia, Greece
HTS-INKS: Colloidal inks for Superconductors
The research team is developing new colloidal inks that unlock additional potential for low cost superconductors, manufactured at a scale that will allow a rapid increase in high temperature superconductors (HTS) adoption.
Team
Mar Tristany, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors, Roxana Vlad, Cornelia Pop – Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)
Country
Spain
COPPER (II) NITROPRUSSIDE (Cu(II)NP) FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF TUMORS
The research team is developing a technology that will allow the use of copper (II) nitroprusside (Cu(II)NP) for tumor treatment.
Team
Kanwal Asif, Muhammad Adeel, Flavio Rizzolio – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Isabella Caligiuri, Kranjc Brezar – Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano
Country
Italy, Slovenia
GENOME EDITING OF THE KOZAK SEQUENCE FOR TREATING DISEASES
The research team have developed and patented a genome editing approach capable of precisely increasing or decreasing the expression of specific genes related to Haploinsufficiency disease.
Team
Alberto Raoss, Alessandro Quattrone – University of Trento
Davide Ederle – Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT)
Country
Italy
MARCIA: In vitro system for metastatic breast cancer diagnostic
The research team is developing a product for the follow-up of breast cancer patients for detecting metastasis early.
Team
Clotilde Costa, Gloria García – Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela
Country
Spain
CE4Land: Life on healthy land- Circular economy for microbial inoculants to improve soil quality
The research team is developing a technology for producing a microbial inoculant under the name CEL to improve soil quality.
Team
Ivana Pajčin, Jovana Grahovac, Vanja Vlajkov – Faculty of Technology Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad
Country
Serbia
MET Lab: Protein Portflolio for Sustainable Chemicals
The research team is developing a technology that can produce added-value compounds, such as vanillin fragrance, from plant biomass, which is considered waste material.
Team
Diogo Silva, André Taborda, Carolina Ferro Rodrigues – ITQB NOVA – Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier
Country
Portugal
Nano-ink: Exploring Nanofluids for High Throughput Thin Film Production
The research team is developing a technology that explores nanofluids as high-value inputs for a drop-on-demand inkjet printing process.
Team
Elif Begum Elcioglu, Erdem Özyurt, Nur Çobanoğlu, Omur Sayligil – Eskisehir Technical University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Country
Turkey
Nanofertilizer
The research team is developing a technology capable of producing nanofertilizers using nanofibers. Nanofertilizers are materials that contain both macro and micronutrients that are given to agricultural crops in a controlled manner.
Team
Nur Melis Kiliç, Dilek Odaci – Ege Universisty
Country
Turkey
DRL 5G RAN SLICING
The research team is developing a project that aims at providing a Reinforcement-Learning-based solution for the management of Radio Access Network slicing tools for communication service providers.
Team
Juan Carlón, Oriol Sllent, Jordi Pérez Romero, Irene Vilà Muñoz – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Researcher at Mobile Communication Research Group
Country
Spain
Sumatrix Biotech
The research team is accelerating bacteria’s life cycle to increase the efficiency of its metabolic output, which is biocellulose. This will enable them to produce material that can be used as a leather alternative.
Team
Semra Unal Yildirim, Rümeysa Saglam, Berna Alemdag – Sumatrix Biotech
Country
Turkey, Germany
EPF3Bio: The potential of EntomoPathogenic Fungi as Biological contol agents, Biofertilisers and Biostimulants
The research team is developing entomopathogenic fungi based products as Biological control agents, Biofertilisers and Biostimulants.
Team
Alexandra Kortsinoglou, Anastasia Christinaki, Antonios Myridakis, Marios Andrikopoulos – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Country
Greece
START selected tech transfer offices
Aliağa Industrial Zone Technology Transfer Office (ALOTTO)
Team member
Ferhat Can Özkaya
Country
Turkey
Paired with
Nanofertilizer
Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol | Gerència Territorial Metropolitana Nord | Institut Català de la Salut
Team member
Daniel Moreno Martinez
Country
Spain
Paired with
MARCIA: In vitro system for metastatic breast cancer diagnostic
Centro di Riferimento Oncologico di Aviano
Team member
Ermes Mestroni
Country
Italy
Paired with
COPPER (II) NITROPRUSSIDE (Cu(II)NP) FOR USE IN THE TREATMENT OF TUMORS
ODTÜ Technology Transfer Office
Team member
Feride Eylül Özkul
Country
Turkey
Paired with
Sumatrix Biotech
Tec Labs
Team member
Mafalda Gil de Carvalho
Country
Portugal
Paired with
MET Lab: Protein Portflolio for Sustainable Chemicals
International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)
Team member
Jordi Hierro
Country
Spain
Paired with
DRL 5G RAN SLICING
Bilkent University
Team member
Gizem Burken
Country
Turkey
Paired with
Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) & Competence Center I4byDesign
Team member
Emmanouil Chatzigiannis
Country
Greece
Paired with
EPF3Bio: The potential of EntomoPathogenic Fungi as Biological contol agents, Biofertilisers and Biostimulants
Babes-Bolyai University
Team member
Kinga Hening
Country
Romenia
Paired with
CAVI
ODTÜ Technology Transfer Office
Team member
Aytulu Sert
Country
Turkey
Paired with
CE4Land: Life on healthy land- Circular economy for microbial inoculants to improve soil quality
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Robotics
Team member
Slaff Mollov
Country
Bulgaria
Paired with
BUCKS$$$: Brine Utilisation for CO2 to be ‘Koncretely’ Sequestered, Solidified and Stored
UniSMART- Fondazione Università degli Studi di Padova
Team member
Justina Sileikyte
Country
Italy
Paired with
CHARGE deep tech startups
RespiBit
Company focusing on solutions for chronic and infectious respiratory diseases.
Country
Bulgaria