Liceth Rebolledo Ceballos

Biomedical Engineer, EURECAT - Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya

Liceth Rebolledo is Biomedical Engineers. She holds an MSc in Biomedical Engineer, with specialization in Research and a Master degree in International Project Management (Barcelona-Spain).

 She has more than 6 years’ experience in project management and has participated in several collaborative EU-funded and national projects related to biomaterial development and advance manufacturing (FP&, FP7 and currently H2020).

The EURECAT (former name, Ascamm Technology Centre) has been a reference Industrial Technological Centre within Europe for twenty-five years generating value through applied R+D, innovation and intensive knowledge services orientated towards improvements in competitiveness and business efficiency in widely differing sectors, such as transport, health, construction, industrial equipment and energy, electrical appliances and consumer electronics, packaging, together with plastic and metal transformation.

Presentations

Europe and Latin America cooperation for nanotechnology success

The main objective of the European project NMP-DeLA (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and New Production Technologies Deployment in Latin American Countries, www.nmp-dela.eu)., was to develop a series of activities between European (EU) and Latin American (LA) countries, aiming to strengthen the research, training potential and industrial competitiveness, as a way of facilitating the deployment of nano and advanced materials technologies in areas of major societal challenge in LA: Health, Water and Energy.

Activities covered:

  • Boosting the creation of a Nanocluster between EU and Latin America
  • Networking, education and training in Advance materials
  • Promote synergy with local/regional policy programs and cooperation programs related to advance materials.
  • Building new skills to enhance and strengthening the local knowledge in Latin America about nanomaterial technologies.
  • Exchange of best practices, build capacity in nanomaterial-innovation and technology.

As main result of these activities, NMP-DeLA will provide three “Innovation strategy road maps” and the development of an “Open Innovation Platform”. The participating ministries of Latin America countries in NMP-DeLA, the European Commission, and stakeholders from both regions, could take advantages of this coordinated funding.

Bibliometric study, literature review and stakeholder engagement during workshops, summer schools and interviews reveal many needs in the current higher education, research, development and innovation system in Latin America regarding the deployment of nanotechnologies in society.

Policy makers from EU and LA could strengthen the local capacities for innovation in nanoscience and nanotechnology by agreeing a common long term strategy and by pooling resources for common research and innovation priorities as part of the EU-CELAC policy dialogue.