Category: communication

  • International Women’s Day 2025

    International Women’s Day 2025

    Project members at a meeting in February 2025 hosted by the Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Two thirds of the scientists in the image are women.

  • STOP project work highlighted in ECONOMY.bg

    ECONOMY.bg is a Bulgarian online magazine with over 18 000 followers on LinkedIn which ran a several-page piece about the STOP project and Dr Albena Daskalova’s research group. The title of the piece translates as A team of scientists from BAS develops antibacterial surfaces with various applications, the full article (in Bulgarian) is here. Independently…

  • 1st Antimicrobial Coatings meeting

    1st Antimicrobial Coatings meeting

    On December 5th and 6th almost fifty scientists met in Mons, Belgium to discuss the development and testing of antimicrobial coatings at a meeting hosted by the ‘STOP’ project and the European Ceramic Society. Many, but not all, of those present were involved with European Commission funded projects such as the ‘AIMed‘ doctoral network, or…

  • Prototype system to manufacture laser-structured antimicrobial surfaces

    Prototype system to manufacture laser-structured antimicrobial surfaces

    This video (YouTube Apel Laser) shows a prototype system for laser texturing surfaces in order to give them properties that will reduce the likelihood that pathogens can be transferred between people using such surfaces. This prototype was developed by the project partner Apel Laser whose role in the ‘STOP’ project is both to develop laser…

  • Nine months in…

    Nine months in…

    Time flies by, and it is now nine months since the ‘STOP’ project formally started on 1st September 2022. We are looking forward to our next face-to face working meeting to be hosted in June by the project partner FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas) on Crete. At this meeting, we will discuss…