Workshop on Investment Vehicles and Financial Instruments supporting Technology Transfer and Innovation: Focus on the Danube Region and the Western Balkans countries

The objectives of the workshop were to identify existing financial instruments to support innovation and technology transfer activities in the Danube Region and the Western Balkan countries, to explore where the evident gaps exist and discuss ways to address currently unmet demand with synergistic solutions. The workshop aimed to strengthen and cement an emerging community of practice on these issues that should help to maximise impact on regional innovation. The workshop stimulated exchange and discussion on the nature, features and the general suitability of existing financial instruments for the financing of different innovation and tech transfer projects (including start-up creation, joint ventures, licensing transactions etc.). The final results are a definition of the type of financing instruments necessary for the region (in the form of vouchers, financial products, enhancements of features of existing innovation funds etc.) and a plan to accelerate their creation.JRC.I.4-Intellectual Property and Technology Transfe

Workshop on the role of Science and Technology Parks and Incubators in Innovation Ecosystems: Promoting Technology Transfer and Innovation. Focus on the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian Macro Regions and the Western Balkan countries

The workshop was co-organised by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the Region of Central Macedonia, Hellenic Republic, in association with the International Association of Science and Technology Parks and Areas of Innovation (IASP), The Thessaloniki Technology Park, i4G Incubator and AREA Science Park. The objectives of the workshop were to create space for exchange of know-how among practitioners from the region on successful practices in the development and management of science parks and incubators and to explore and understand the role that these can play in creating value and developing innovation ecosystems. The workshop was aimed at exploring the different models for Science and Technology Parks (STPs) and incubator development and financing as well as management. During the event the roles of various stakeholders, both private and public (industry, academia, government and investment community, etc.) in generating a virtuous circle that can accelerate local economic development and increase regional competitiveness were considered. Additionally, the event focused on stimulating discussion on identifying best practices that can help tackle issues and bottlenecks that are specific to the Danube and Adriatic-Ionian macro-regions, and the Western Balkan countries. The overall conclusions of the workshop are expected to assist in streamlining the technology commercialisation and technology transfer systems in all countries concerned including member states, candidate and neighbourhood countries.JRC.I.4-Intellectual Property and Technology Transfe

MAGIC and H.E.S.S. detect VHE gamma rays from the blazar OT081 for the first time: a deep multiwavelength study

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Distriktssköterskors upplevelser av tolksamtal

I och med att invandringen i Sverige har ökat så har behovet av tolkade samtal blivit större. Kommunikationen är grunden för en säker och fungerande vård. Syftet med denna studie var att beskriva distriktssköterskors upplevelser av tolksamtal inom primärvården. Resultatet i studien baseras på ostrukturerade intervjuer med nio distriktssköterskor. Intervjuerna analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i fem kategorier: Att planera inför samtalet, att skapa förutsättningar för ett lyckat samtal, att tolken är koncentrerad och objektiv, att rätt översättning är en förutsättning för trygg omvårdnad och att se fördelar med att välja en auktoriserad tolk. Resultatet visar att tolkade samtal tar längre tid och kräver mer planering. Att både distriktssköterskans och tolkens bemötande och förhållningssätt har betydelse för ett lyckat samtal. Distriktssköterskor känner osäkerhet att det de sagt tolkas rätt. De framhåller trygghet för patienten som en viktig del i samtalet och de föredrar auktoriserade tolkar framför kollegor och närstående till patienten. Sammanfattningsvis så visar resultatet av studien att det med tolksamtal både finns möjligheter och svårigheter där både distriktssköterskan och tolken ansvarar för att samtalet blir lyckat. Mer forskning behövs där tydliga rutiner med åtgärder och rekommendationer vid tolksamtal bör tas fram för att övervinna språkbarriärer i framtiden.

Reverse breakdown and light-emission patterns studied in Si PureB SPADs

The relationship between light-emission patterns from silicon avalanche-mode light-emitting diodes (AMLEDs), and avalanche breakdown was investigated using photodiodes fabricated in pure boron (PureB) technology. The quality of the diodes ranged from high-quality, low dark-current devices with abrupt breakdown characteristics that were suitable for operation as single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), to diodes with gradually increasing reverse currents before actual breakdown. The reverse I-V characteristics were measured and correlated to light-emission data obtained simultaneously using a PureB photodetector, and inspected using a camera with which distinct emission patterns could be identified. When increasing the voltage far past breakdown, light emission invariably becomes dominant at the photodiode periphery. Based on the examination of a large variety of anode geometries, it is concluded that the most efficient light emission per consumed power is achieved with defect-free narrow-anode diodes that also are applicable as low-dark-count-rate SPADs

Impact of ultra-thin-layer material parameters on the suppression of carrier injection in rectifying junctions formed by interfacial charge layers

Pure amorphous boron (PureB) deposition on Si is used to fabricate ultrashallow low-saturation-current p+n-like diodes even at process temperatures where the boron is not expected to diffuse into the bulk Si. It has been proposed that the bonding of the B atoms to the Si creates a monolayer of fixed negative charge that attracts holes to the interface. In this paper, an investigation using semiconductor simulation tools is performed starting from an all-Si test structure where suppression of electron injection from an n-Si bulk was achieved by introducing a large concentration of negative fixed charge that attracts holes to the interface between a thin-film top-layer and the bulk. This introduces a barrier which lowers the electron saturation current density of the simulated diode to become comparable to or lower than the saturation current density of holes injected into the bulk. The material properties of the top-layer such as electron mobility and tunneling mass, bandgap and electron affinity are individually varied from default Si-values to values typical for amorphous boron layers indicating that a critical concentration of negative fixed charge is always needed for suppression of the electron injection

Introducing Open Data Concepts to STEM Students Using Real-World Open Datasets

While open data concepts become more important in our society, education about its benefits and technical issues is still behind the practice. Students of STEM disciplines should be introduced to open data during their education. The Open Computing course, completely redesigned in the new Computing curriculum, introduces open data concepts, providing both the basics and advanced topics, from technical to social and legal viewpoints. Among the several educational activities, one was particularly useful for understanding the needs and implications of using open data: a synchronous group activity where students had to choose a societal issue, find and analyze two open datasets that would help gaining insight into this issue, assess interdisciplinarity approaches and stakeholders, and finally propose the added value emerging from the solution. In a short amount of time needed, this activity - which tackled multiple aspects of the problem - brought a clearer insight into the topic, building upon the conventional lectures. Students highly graded such an approach to their education, where they had to construct their knowledge by the group experience. A similar group activity appeared to be useful in the con of open data PhD training and might also be used in other disciplines and domains.</p

Intensity interferometry with the MAGIC telescopes

Due to their large mirror size, fast response to single photons, sensitivity and telescope baselines in the order of 100 m, Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes are ideally suited to perform intensity interferometry observations. In 2019 a test readout setup was installed in the two 17-m diameter MAGIC telescopes to allow performing interferometry measurements with them. The first on-sky measurements were able to detect correlated intensity fluctuations consistent with the stellar diameters of three different stars: Adhara (n CMa), Benetnasch ([ UMa) and Mirzam (V CMa). After the upgrade of the setup in 2021, MAGIC is now equipped with a high-duty-cycle intensity interferometer, already in operation. A technical description of the interferometer and first performance results obtained by measuring several known stellar diameter are presented