STARS EU knowledge transfer office kicks off

The new service provides 72 technological services that supply advanced solutions to companies and institutions

STARS EU Alliance has launched its own Knowledge and Technology Transfer Office (K&TTO), a service that has one of the largest technological offerings in the entire European Union (EU), and which was created to promote the collaboration of the nine universities of the alliance with the productive sectors, as well as with society in general.

The new STARS EU KTTO offers a very extensive catalog that compiles a total of 72 technological services ─ this number is expected to continue to increase ─ of the more than 90 provided by the network. All of them cover the fundamental scientific areas and are aimed at industries, technology companies and public sectors, as well as European citizens. 

The current catalogue, which can be consulted on the alliance’s website (Services), offers services focused on the development of solutions based on advanced and applied research; technological development of new products; technical consultancy; participation in R+D+i projects; intellectual property licences; support for the creation of companies; training and scientific dissemination and exchange of knowledge.   among many other features.

The launch of this service, which will improve the innovation agendas of the partners ─ by enabling the generation of new businesses beyond European regional borders ─ is supported by the powerful and varied joint offer offered by the STARS EU network: 113 advanced research institutes, around 93 technological services,   715 research groups, 8,082 annual publications, 596 research projects, 243 EU-funded projects, 683 technology contracts and 118 patents per year.

As explained by its director, and member of the STARS EU ALLIANCE Steering Committee, Rodrigo Trujillo, STARS EU K&TTO aims to be a «gateway» to the demand for knowledge-based services and technological solutions generated in the alliance’s partner universities, a «showcase» with which to promote collaboration and expand the range of services that each centre provides in its natural environments of influence. 

More complete and specialized offer

«The configuration such as the alliance, in itself, makes us stronger, and by combining transfer services, what we have achieved is to considerably expand our offer to reach more potential customers who will be able to have access to a much more complete and specialized catalog of services and professionals,» explains Trujillo.

Among the many needs that the transfer office made up of the nine universities of the alliance can respond to are the analysis of contaminants in microplastics, the coverage of demands generated from the agricultural sector, genetic studies, consultations related to robotics, biotechnological diagnostics or signal analysis. 

This is just a sample of the wide range of services that, in addition to the opening of new markets, will make it possible to offer solutions adapted to large industries with complex multidisciplinary problems that require specific tools to solve them. In this sense, the director of STARS EU K&TTO stresses that not all the services offered are technological, as there are also advice, consultancy and advice. 

Access to the service catalog

Obtaining information about a certain service is extremely simple. Once you click on the catalogue of services available on the website, you can access the different technological services classified by scientific areas and sub-areas, which contain specific data on scientific references, as well as the category of the service and the people responsible for each of them in the partner universities.  

The demands raised by customers are addressed in a coordinated and joint manner, once the contact form that appears next to the description of each of the services offered by the nine partners of the alliance is received: Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB), Portugal; Krakow University of Technology (CUT), Poland; University of Silesia in Opava (SUO), Czech Republic; Hanze University of Applied Sciences (HUAS), Netherlands; Bremen University of Applied Sciences (HSB), Germany; University of Franche-Comté (UFC), France; Western University (HV), Sweden; Aleksandër Moisiu University of Durrës (AMU), Albania, and University of La Laguna (ULL), Spain.