Winners
EnviroSense, an interdisciplinary project, proposes an innovative solution to monitor indoor environmental quality and occupant health in real-time, enhancing well-being and energy efficiency. It aims to create healthier and more sustainable indoor environments in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The LUMINESCENCE project seeks to increase the energy conversion efficiency of solar photovoltaic systems by incorporating luminescent solar concentrators, intelligent semi-transparent windows, to collect solar energy.
AeroNaLyte aims to develop composite silica-polymer aerogels for the development of new solid batteries. This is expected to achieve advances in increasing the safety (more stable and non-flammable) and durability of future post-lithium batteries.
CO2BioFilter - Bio-Filter for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Valorization: A Sustainable Approach towards Environment, Health and Circular Economy presented by researcher Rui Carrilho. This project consists in using food waste to obtain carbon materials that, after modifying their structural properties, allow the creation of an efficient bio-filter for CO2 capture. The CO2 will then be used in the chemical synthesis of potential new molecules with antibacterial properties, responding to the principles of Sustainability, Circular Economy.
"INOCleanMat - Innovative Materials for Clean Energy Storage Systems" presented by Daniela Ribeiro Pinheiro from the Coimbra Chemistry Center.
This project responds to the need to store clean energy from renewable sources by creating batteries made of sustainable compounds.
"Citydemics – Planning cities for pandemics" presented by Eduardo Natividade Jesus from DEC/FCTUC.