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Knowledge Transfer Days: passing on learnings about emerging materials and technologies to the industry and beyond
How can it be possible to design using new and innovative materials? 8 Days to see prototypes and samples, meet the researchers and learn the methods! Starting from November 2021 Datemats sets up a
The physical encounters continue: Datemats exhibition is debuting at Barcelona Design Week 2021
Datemats is debuting at the Barcelona Design Week 2021 presenting the outputs available at this point of the project on the occasion of its first physical exhibition named “Datemats, designing with emerging materials and
Materialising the Future across Europe: Datemats simultaneously in Helsinki and Milano
During this year’s edition of the Helsinki and Milan Design Week, the Datemats project promoted an online event where its experts in designing for and with Emerging Materials and Technologies (EM&Ts) illustrated their methodologies
Students mobility kick-off: Interdisciplinary Challenge N°1 at Tecnun
Interdisciplinary Challenge N°1 at Tecnun Datemats project organizes an international mobility program including four international workshops. An international learning experience involving students and teaching staff from the universities of the Datemats consortium: Aalto
5th transnational coordination meeting: uncertainty still prevails
On May 20th, the Datemats consortium gathered for its fifth meeting, again online. As virtual encounters have become commonplace, and all participants are now familiar with the online mode, the meeting went smoothly and
Another Datemats book: the methodologies explored in the project led to an additional publication on ICS materials, the wearable EM&Ts
"ICS MATERIALS. INTERACTIVE, CONNECTED, AND SMART MATERIALS" Edited by Datemats project coordinator Venere Ferraro, together with Valentina Rognoli, the book covers a series of outstanding researchers’ contributions on the topic of ICS Materials: a
Student at Aalto, KEA, PoliMi or Tecnun? Apply for the Datemats Mobility activity and discover application potentials of EM&Ts
In 2021 the Datemats Erasmus+ mobility will take place: hopefully the european COVID-19 situation will allow the consortium partners to execute the activities as planned and invite students enrolled at the involved Higher Education
EM&T producer or end-user? Be part of the project network and get first hand research knowledge
The Datemats partners main objective is to transfer knowledge on Emerging Materials & Technologies - short EM&Ts - from academia and research to the industry and the future workforce. To do so, being in
The 4th transnational coordination meeting: sticking to the online mode
Initially, the event was planned to be held as a two day meet up in Milan (Italy) at PoliMi premises. In April, when the dates for this meeting were set, partners were hopeful that
Datemats managed to hold is Knowledge Transfer Labs despite all odds
The Knowledge Transfer Labs are a series of workshops organised by the Datemats partners to test and evaluate the design thinking methods defined within the project. The aim of the meetings was to further
Understanding emerging materials and technologies: the Datemats EM&T toolkit version 1
The main aim of the Datemats project is to develop new methods to transfer knowledge about Emerging Materials and Technologies (EM&Ts). Part of the elaborated methodology is the creation of a toolkit presenting several
Datemats book out now: first tangible project output published in early september
The project consortium is proud to announce that the first Datemats book is released under the Creative Commons License by the publisher Franco Angeli. The book contains the preliminary findings of the project’s ongoing research