NanoPAT’s partner, UPV, organised this year their annual meeting with the industries of their consortia “Industrial Liaison Program” on 7-8 September 2022 in San Sebastian, Spain.

During 11th and 12th August 2022 the industrial partner ARKEMA visited the RTO pilot partner ZHAW in Wädenswil (Switzerland) in order to transfer their zeolite know-how to the Swiss team and to experience PDW (photon density wave) spectroscopy in real.

On May 24th, the UP/innoFSPEC team visited the Covestro’s facilities in Waalwijk (Netherlands), within the framework of Case Study 1, monitoring particle formation of polyurethane dispersions and polyacrylate emulsions.

On May 11th, part of the innoFSPEC team visited the industrial site of NanoPAT partner Evonik in Wesseling (Germany), within the framework of the Case Study 2 of the project, real-time in-situ monitoring of the genesis of nanostructured silica under different precipitation conditions.

On Thursday, April 14th 2022, the EU-H2020 project NanoCommons, gave NanoPAT partners an interactive online workshop on implementing Instance Maps for linking SOPs and data to Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for nanosafety assessment.

From 11th to 22nd April 2022, Stephanie Schlappa and Tobias Simon, members of innoFSPEC, innovation and research center part of the NanoPAT partner University of Postdam, visited the project colleagues at the POLYMAT Institute of the University of the Basque Country in San Sebastian (Spain).

The latest episode (#08) of the Listen.UP podcast of Potsdam University portrayed innoFSPEC group leader Dr Marvin Münzberg as well as innoFSPEC as a research center. Under the title “What’s actually happening?” (in German, “Was passiert da eigentlich?”), the episode stresses innoFSPEC’s important role in the knowledge transfer between university and industrial partners, particularly in the field of process analytical technologies (PAT); and thereby arising career options such as dual career systems . Dr Münzberg explains further how PDW spectroscopy, as a PAT that was uniquely developed at innoFSPEC, can be used for diverse industrial applications, from cheese production to algae cultivation.

On Thursday 17th March 2022, the EU H2020 OYSTER project organized an Open Day Workshop, as its final exploitation and dissemination workshop.

Despina Emmanouilidou from Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) was visiting, June 28th-July 2nd, the University of Potsdam (UP) for training and networking purposes within the NanoPAT project. After the first year of the NanoPAT project, the aim of the visit was an intensive training by PDWS experts at innoFSPECPotsdam, with a focus on zeolite synthesis and first experiments with offline and inline photon density wave spectroscopy (PDWS). Additionally, measurement of zeolite properties with reference methods exclusively available in Potsdam were planned.

Despina Emmanouilidou from Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) was visiting, June 28th-July 2nd, the University of Potsdam (UP) for training and networking purposes within the NanoPAT project. After the first year of the NanoPAT project, the aim of the visit was an intensive training by PDWS experts at innoFSPECPotsdam, with a focus on zeolite synthesis and first experiments with offline and inline photon density wave spectroscopy (PDWS). Additionally, measurement of zeolite properties with reference methods exclusively available in Potsdam were planned.