2016

Vikas Ecotech Ltd, manufacturer of specialty polymers, compounds and additives, has signed an MoU with Czech Republic based Nafigate Corporation for technology to convert waste cooking oil in to biopolymer PHA (polyhydroxyalkanoate). As per the agreement, Nafigate will transfer Hydal technology, which is a process to convert waste cooking oil into PHA biopolymer by means of fermentation and subsequent PHA polymer isolation, to Vikas Ecotech.

Full article: http://www.business-standard.com/vikasecotech

CSIC cordially invites you to attend the 2016 International Symposium on Biopolymers (ISBP2016), to be held in Madrid (Spain) from 26- 29, September. Please save these days in your agenda. ISBP is a successful congress series on biopolymers that has been held every two years since the initial meeting in Toronto 1988. ISBP will take place in the Hotel Rafael Atocha, Méndez Álvaro, 30, located in the center of Madrid, at walking distance of the main train station Atocha and directly connected to the airport.

For more information, click here: www.isbp2016/facebookevent.com

Also, the official website: www.isbp2016.com

Brexit- how does it affect P4SB and it's partners?

""Following the UK electorate’s decision to leave the European Union (EU), I know that people will have a lot of questions, many of which we cannot easily answer today. However, in the short-term there will not be any immediate material change to the immigration status of current and prospective staff and students, nor to the way the UK University sector participates in EU programmes such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus."-Professor G Q Max Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey

Let´s keep our fingers crossed that the referendum has no serious consequences for our P4SB-project!

Click here for the article: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/

As data management is essential in our P4SB project, we encourage our members to participate in the webinar "How to write a Data Management Plan".

More information: https://www.openaire.eu/