Are you ready for AIT Fourth Edition? We can’t wait anymore! Academia-Industry Training Brazil 2017 will be connecting promising researchers-entrepreneurs with the industry in order to develop the market application of their high-level research. The program not only encourages international researchers to work together and share best practices, but also to understand new markets and exploit synergies.
AIT gives a strong introduction to entrepreneurship featuring workshops in business plan writing, market-entry scenarios, funding strategies and pitching mentoring as well as a thorough understanding of Brazilian and Swiss market opportunities. Check out the AIT Camp Week Program.
Swiss participants
Participants will be visiting key institutions in both countries, participating in lectures as well as focusing on networking events to maximise contact between Swiss and Brazilian players. Find out more about these promising researcher-entrepreneurs:
 Alexandra GavilanoPyrolysis GmbH – University of BernThe Pyrolysis GmbH produces optimized pyrolysis reactors that transform/recycle organic waste into valuable resources for agriculture or farm animal breeds such as biogas – a unique solution to recycle waste and gain valuable resources. Industry: Cleantech & Agritech, waste management, agriculture and CO2 mitigation. www.pyrolysis.ch |
 Amir H. GhadimiOptical MEMS sensors – École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL)Chip scale accelerometers, vibrometers & gyroscopes represent a multi-billion dollar market with applications ranging from smartphones to space and oil industry. Our disruptive technology enables us to produce passive sensors with better performance and less power consumption. Industry: Oil and mining, space, smartphone, and car |
Ana Martins Sunlight is a lightweight aesthetic unbreakable glass-free photovoltaic module with maximal durability. |
Jaime Duarte MyoSwiss developed the Myosuit: A textile-based robotic device developed to assist people with activities of daily life such as walking, transferring in and out of a chair, or climbing stairs. |
Laura Rio Instant Copper creates antibacterial surfaces by copper sputtering to fight a major health issue that represents healthcare-associated infections: 225,000 deaths and an overall cost of over 50 billion dollars across Europe and US annually. |
Marcel Gort TeD allows general practitioners and dermatologists to take standardized skin grafts to harvest cells for tissue-engineered products. |
 Mathias Béguin MagneSys – HEIG-VD The technology that MagneSys has developed allows the continuous filtering-out of iron magnetic particles from various solid foods in dry powder form, such as coffee. Industry: Food industry www.magnesys.ch |
Mélanie Guittet OneSky develops air traffic control systems for drone professionals, flight awareness, and automatic collision avoidance. |
Noris Gallandat GRZ Technologies is a provider of hydrogen-related solutions for academic and industrial applications. |
 Stefano Grassi Ensiplan – ETH Zürich IT solution to support power grid operators in planning new transmission lines and to improve the interaction with authorities and communities. Industry: IT applied to energy industry |
Brazilian participants
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Ana Claudia Renno Bone tissue engineering. Osteovita developed an innovative product that can be used to replace bones. It’s manufactured with spongin from marine sponges. |
César Quiroz 3D mapping to estimate measurements of iron stockpile using autonomous drone.
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Denise Coutinho Endringer Organic beauty and personal hygiene products using seaweed. |
Marcus Lima Hardware and software prototype development to convert manual forklifts to autonomous. |
Murilo Penteado Del Grande VetImmuno is focused on developing individual therapeutic antitumor vaccines as adjuvant therapy in Veterinary cancer treatments with potential application to treat human cancer. The necessary infrastructure to produce the vaccine is simple and scalable and the technology to obtain the vaccine is patentable. |
Paulo Silva An innovative approach for incorporation of BODIPY fluorogens in biologically relevant short peptides, aiming to develop novel imaging probes with high sensitivity and specificity for both basic research and clinical diagnosis. |
Rayssa Pereira A noninvasive method to identify successful decellularization process. |
Complete and compact platform for the treatment of diabetes. |
AIT 2017: Final Pitching Session
Our talented and promising Swiss and Brazilian scientists will pitch in front of a broad audience. This event is ...
AIT fourth edition 2017
We are proud to announce the 4th training camp for Brazilian and Swiss entrepreneurial researchers ...
Academia-Industry Training
Brazilian and Swiss researchers transforming their researches into market innovations.