Month: June 2026

The BOOST project participated in the EIC Summit 2026, a key meeting point for the European Innovation Council community and a valuable opportunity to engage with Europe’s deep tech innovation ecosystem.

During the event, BOOST strengthened its visibility among EIC Awardees, beneficiaries and relevant stakeholders, while creating space for direct exchanges with projects supported through EIC Booster Grants. These conversations helped gather insights on how BOOST is contributing to innovation impact, supporting research commercialisation, and enabling both innovation activities and portfolio activities across the Horizon Europe landscape.

The Summit also reinforced BOOST’s mission: to help EIC-supported research move closer to market, increase its impact and strengthen connections across the EIC community through targeted cascade funding support.

Stay tuned: BOOST recordings from the EIC Summit 2026 will soon be available on the BOOST YouTube channel.

The REMEDY is one of the partners in EIC’s Engineered Living Materials portfolio’s “ELMs LCA Starter Kit” (ELM-LCAKit) project, which was selected for funding by the European Innovation Council within the BOOST initiative.

This project, emerging from the ELM Portfolio’s Environment & Sustainability Working Group, will help develop a shared early-stage Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework tailored to the unique challenges of Engineered Living Materials.

ELM-LCAKit is led by the PRISM-LT project in collaboration with Fungateria, NextSkins, and REMEDY EIC. Together they will develop early-stage LCA guidelines for ELMs, a common methodological framework, practical resources and templates to support sustainability assessment, and recommendations to strengthen comparability and future standardisation across the field.

As Engineered Living Materials move from visionary concepts towards real-world applications, sustainability must be considered from the very beginning.

This initiative will help the ELM community make informed design choices and build a stronger evidence base for future environmental impact assessments.

InnoRenew CoE, UP IAM researcher attended the 1st South-East Transnational Congress of Microbial Sciences (SETCoMS 2026), held 10–13 June 2026 in Belgrade, Serbia.

The congress brought together researchers, clinicians and industry representatives from across the region and beyond to discuss recent advances in microbiology, health and environmental sciences.

Dr. Ihab Malat, InnoRenew CoE, UP IAM researcher, presented at the congress his recently published research article entitled ‘’Surface Colonization of Aureobasidium pullulans: A Multimodal Microscopy Study Toward Living Coating Development’’.

The study contributes to the development of innovative bio-based living coatings and investigates the surface colonization behaviour of Aureobasidium pullulans, a versatile fungal species with significant potential for sustainable building applications. Using a multimodal microscopy approach, the research provides valuable insights into fungal growth patterns and biofilm formation on material surfaces, supporting the design and optimisation of living coating systems.

The presented work contributes to the objectives of the ERC-funded ARCHI-SKIN and EIC-funded REMEDY projects, which aim to develop innovative bio-based technologies and sustainable solutions for the built environment through the integration of living systems and advanced material design.

The SETCoMS 2026 congress programme focused on recent developments in microbial sciences and provided an excellent platform for disseminating research findings, exchanging knowledge and establishing new scientific collaborations.

Dr. Anna Sandak, REMEDY project coordinator, attended the EIC Summit 2026, held 3–4 June 2026 in Brussels, Belgium.

She represented the project and contributed to discussions on engineered living materials, engaging with members of the EIC Board on the future directions of this field.

The EIC Summit 2026 featured workshops, panel discussions and high-level sessions on key areas of deep-tech innovation and policy, bringing together leading representatives from science, industry and policy to explore the future of the innovation ecosystem.

The event provided an important platform for interdisciplinary exchange, networking, and dialogue on the role of breakthrough research in addressing societal and industrial challenges, while strengthening connections between research and innovation policy.