Dr hab. T. Bartosz Kalinowski, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz is the project manager, while the team includes scientists from Poland (Faculty of Management, University of Lodz; Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz; Poznań University of Life Sciences), Turkey (Yasar University), Germany (ACCEU), Greece (Smart Agro Hub), Romania (HELIXCONNECT EUROPE) and Serbia (DeepTech Balkans).
We hope that DeepBioTech will act as a catalyst for universities and help:
- Transform higher education and research in the life sciences towards innovation, entrepreneurship and social impact.
- Support Life Sciences students in considering deep tech issues,
- Implement technology transfer and innovation in the Life Sciences through deep tech innovation and economic, environmental and social impact.
As the project manager, dr hab. T. Bartosz Kalinowski, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz emphasises, the DeepBioTech project is interdisciplinary and tries to combine the experiences of Life and Social Sciences during joint work. The project results will equip students of Natural Sciences with skills in the following areas:
- entrepreneurship (in accordance with the EntreComp model)
- innovation and commercialisation of R&D results with an emphasis on creating start-ups
- directing R&D results towards novel ways of influencing society and the environment
- the use of deep-tech in the Natural Sciences
Scientists involved in the project include:
- dr hab. Paweł Głodek, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, Dr Magdalena Wiśniewska, Dr Małgorzata Żak-Skwierczyńska, Izabella Szudrowicz (Faculty of Management, University of Lodz),
- Dr Karolina Rudnicka, Associate Professor at the University of Lodz, Dr Natalia Ratajczyk (Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz);
- Dr Adrian Solomon, Dr Mihail Lisetchi, Lola Vaskovic (Helixconnect Europe);
- Lina Marcela Landinez Gomez, Aventia Wilona-Jülich (ACEEU),
- Dr Petar Vrgovic (Deep Tech Balkans),
- Christina Simou (Smart Agro Hub);
- dr hab. Izabela Lipińska, Associate Professor at Poznań University of Life Sciences; Izabela Siemińska, Prof. dr hab. Karolina Pawlak, (Poznań University of Life Sciences);
- Dr Effi Staiou, Dr Yasin Özarslan, Doc. dr Ruhan Aşkın Uzel, Necip Özbey, Pelin Atakan (Yaşar University).
DeepBioTech project (Deeptech in bioentrepreneurship: immersing the next generation university startups and research commercialization in lifesciences towards social and environmental impact; 2024-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000243866; Project co-financed by the European Union; Erasmus+).