UVigo presented the capabilities of research centers and clusters
Putting science at the service of society and promoting lines of research that serve to solve problems and demands of the productive fabric. This is the objective of knowledge transfer, a path in which the University of Vigo continues to expand horizons, this time hand in hand with the company Kaleido.
This week, both entities held a meeting organized by Campus do Mar and the Marine Research Center – CIM, to introduce UVigo Kaleido Tech’s research staff to the open innovation ecosystem that the logistics company works with and that can help the academic world identify industry needs and provide them with solutions. At the same time, the company representatives were also able to familiarize themselves, with the vice-rector for Research Belén Rubio, with “the capacities of UVigo’s research centers and groups, with their main lines of research and potential to carry out research projects of various kinds.”
The day, in which 49 people participated, revolved around the sum of “scientific ideas + pilot projects + open innovation = real solutions for the industry”. In this way, both parties were able to study possible concrete ideas with the potential to materialize through an open innovation ecosystem, as a path to reach the market.
Strategic alliances
The Vice-Chancellor for Research’s intervention focused on showing Kaleido the research potential of UVigo through its groups and associations. Specifically, she presented atlanTTic – research center for Telecommunication Technologies; Cintecx, Center for Research in Technologies, Energy and Industrial Processes; CIM, Center for Marine Research; Cinbio, Center for Biomedical Research; Citmaga – Center for Research and Technology of Mathematics of Galicia; Ecobas, Economics and Business Administration for Society and Citaca – Iberian Food Laboratory. This is, Rubio points out, “promoting the transfer of the University to companies, in particular with Kaleido, an entity that has a very strong connection with the CIM, with several innovative projects in the marine and aquaculture fields, but also logistics projects in which both atlanTTic and Cintecx, for example, have a very relevant role”. The vice-chancellor emphasized that the new regional, national and European policies (the RIS4 strategy, in the Spanish Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-27 and the Horizon Europe program) “promote innovation and the empowerment and promotion of companies.”
Priority areas of work
Throughout the working day, both the research staff and the company representatives focused on key technologies such as mechanics, artificial intelligence, artificial vision, augmented reality, 3D printing, big data, blockchain, robotics, drones, engine efficiency, nanotechnology, bioTech and industrial automation and mechanization.
Thus, the sectors with potential for these collaborations are telecommunications; logistics and transport, both land, air, maritime, warehouse automation, time control, traceability, location systems, etc.; the fishing industry, in relation to new fishing gear, use of by-products, energy efficiency, management software, cold systems, classification systems or commercial management; engineering and construction materials; aquaculture, in relation to production improvements, vaccines, feeding systems, traceability, by-products, etc.; habitat; marine biotechnology and marine energies.
Currently, the University of Vigo already maintains a collaboration with Kaleido through the Parasitology area, of the Department of Functional Biology and Health Sciences, within the framework of which they are working “on a very interesting topic of eliminating Anisakis”, but the idea is to “extend and enhance collaborations with a view to requesting joint projects and promoting future lines of joint development”, as Belén Rubio explains. After her presentation and that of the company, 12 bilateral meetings were held between Kaleido staff and the centers and groups of the UVigo, from which initiatives of common interest and possible future collaborations emerged.
The research activity of the CIM has the support of the Xunta de Galicia and the European Union, through its co-financing under the FEDER/FSE Galicia 2014-2020 Operational Program.
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