Full steam ahead! SECRETed Project H2020 just celebrated its 7th General Assembly, as it enters its last months before the end of the project. The meeting, which took place in the amazing city of Seville, Spain, was hosted by IDENER.AI, the project coordinator.

During the meeting, all partners had the opportunity to meet and discuss technical advances and issues, achievements and the overall progress of all work packages. Blue Synergy SL represented by our Sustainability Engineer, Sebastián Ospina Corral, and Social Researcher, Julio Morales Daza, presented the status of the sustainability assessments and the social awareness and acceptance tasks.

On the sustainability assessments side, we presented the results of scaling up the production process for rhamnolipids, moving from pilot-scale production at 150L to simulated results for 1-ton/batch and commercial-scale operations. The presentation also included an assessment of the process’s sustainability performance, covering environmental, economic, and social aspects. 

On the social awareness and acceptance side, we presented the hosting of our second workshop; the creation of the first and second newsletters; the updating of the social awareness section in SECRETed’s website; the continuous posting of social awareness posts and news; the conduction of social awareness interviews; and the completion of a social acceptance survey.

Blue Synergy is a proud partner of the SECRETed Project.

To know more about SECRETed, please visit: www.secreted.eu

VALORISH met for the first time in-person last week in the project’s second general assembly, to check the progress in these first six months. Blue Synergy’s General Manager, Germán Cavero, and Social Researcher, Julio Morales Daza, attended the meeting, which was hosted by Idener in the beautiful city of Sevilla, Spain and organized by the project coordinator, Igor De las Heras, and his colleague Marta Franco de Benito.

 

During this second General Assembly Meeting, the VALORISH partners presented the latest updates of the work packages and tasks that are already being executed and gave an overview of the work ahead and next steps. Additionally, two other important and inspiring activities took place during the meeting: the Open Access Seminar, conducted by our colleagues at Kneia, and the Stakeholder Workshop, conducted by the Blue Synergy Team.

 

Regarding the Stakeholder Workshop, all partners contributed to a collaborative effort of identifying potential stakeholders and mapping them according to their potential relationship with the project. The workshop allowed for the exchange of points of view, opinions and doubts regarding the process of selecting the stakeholders. At the end, the activity received multiple inputs from the partners and was a success in terms of engaging them in one of the key aspects for the project’s communication, dissemination, networking and exploitation strategies.

Overall, this VALORISH second general assembly meeting allowed the consortium members to share important information on the progress, to learn about new concepts and techniques, and to work collaboratively on key issues of the project.

To discover more about VALORISH, please visit: https://www.valorish.eu/

Recently, the NANOMAT project celebrated its General Assembly Meeting, in an event organized and hosted by Blue Synergy in Madrid, Spain.

During the meeting, all partners gathered to present the progress, milestones and goals achieved, as well as to share knowledge and opinions about the work of the project. Blue Synergy was represented at the meeting by our Sustainability Engineer, Patricio Iván Cano Santana, and our General & Operations Director, German Cavero Lopez.

NANOMAT is a European project focused on developing a new concept of antenna to be used for aero-space engineering in such a way that the time needed to air landing could be reduced up to 5 minutes (reducing a huge amount of carbon dioxide released during this time). In addition, NANOMAT is aimed at using more circular and sustainable materials together with rethinking processes from a circular and sustainable point of view.

The NANOMAT consortium is composed by: Thales, Uppsala University, RF Microtech, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Imperial College London, Circuits Integrated, Institutul National De Cercetaredezvoltare Pentru Microtehnologie, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, NANOTEST, Technische Universität Chemnitz.

To discover more about NANOMAT, please visit: www.nanomat-project.com

The second Social Awareness Workshop of SECRETed project took place on September 26^th, 2024, at Farmaforum, one of the biggest fairs for Pharma, Cosmetic, Nutraceutical and other related industries. The workshop was hosted by Blue Synergy and Idener.ai, with the collaboration of Fundación para el Conocimiento Madri+d and Enterprise Europe Network Spain, who helped secure the space for the workshop at Farmaforum.

In a Nutshell

Titled “From Concept to Scale-Up: Harnessing Biosurfactants with Model-Assisted Development” and presented by Idener’s Manuel Salvador and Blue Synergy’s Sebastián Ospina, the workshop gave the attendees a glimpse into the SECRETed Project’s vision and goals, as well as its most recent developments; an introduction to the potential of marine biotech in relation to the biosurfactants and siderophores integrated management platform;  the future of Green Chemistry in Pharma and how harnessing biosurfactants may contribute to a sustainable  drug development; and an overview of encapsulation innovations, with the objective of creating more sustainable Drug Delivery Systems. Thus, the workshop had a variety of interesting topics for researchers and decision-makers in the Pharma, Cosmetic and Nutraceutical industries

The presentations

The first presentation covered the SECRETed project goals; its technical challenges; the key findings; the innovative approaches, such as Machine Learning and combinatorial simulations; and the sustainability assessments carried out.

The second presentation was about sustainability in Pharma and consumer preferences, such as an increase in consumer demand for eco-friendly medicines; Green Chemistry in drug production that includes safer, sustainable chemicals and reducing waste; R&D efficiency, through the implementation of tools such AI for bioprospecting; and a future outlook of the implementation of these practices in Pharma.

The third presentation centered around Data Collection; the use of QSAR/QSPR models; the industrial relevance represented in the optimization of production processes; and the database expansion with over 1,300 biosurfactants and 480 siderophores, and more than 1,700 defined molecular structures. The presentation highlighted how SECRETed has developed one of the largest and most detailed databases of biosurfactants and siderophores, aligning with Europe’s green chemistry goals, offering valuable insights for industrial applications and future innovations.

Finally, the fourth presentation covered the topics of sustainable encapsulation; Rhamnolipids production in Pharma and its environmental impact; and the RNAi formulation progress.

A promising platform

The SECRETed second social awareness workshop at Farmaforum Madrid allowed the project to showcase its goals and vision, as well as its key findings and future prospects to an audience of specialized researchers and representatives from industries such as Pharma, Cosmetic and Nutraceutical. Additionally, the presence of SECRETed at Farmaforum also allowed for networking activities with interested parties from the mentioned industries.