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European Researcher’s Night 2025
The STOP project partner FORTH opened its doors as part of the 2025 European Researcher’s Night in order to explain its work to the public. The STOP project was part of the exhibition, and visitors had the opportunity to see the effect of super hydrophobic coatings in practice.
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Three years gone by….
The STOP project recently met in Turin (having sponsored a session at the 2025 European Society for Biomaterials meeting held in Turin) in order to review progress over the last three years since the start of the project, and to prepare reports for the European Commission. A focus of the discussion was upon the field…
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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.
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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…
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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…