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The 3rd European Summer School on Bio-based Composites (ESBBC-3) took place in mid-September at St John's College, University of Cambridge. Hochschule Bremen (HSB) was involved in the preparation, organisation and implementation of the event. It addressed Master's and PhD students as well as young scientists from both academia and industry.
The international and practice-oriented format was designed for interactive discussions and included a varied programme of keynote speeches, practical masterclasses, tutorials, workshops and presentations by all participants. In addition, prominent EU projects such as SSUCHY-NEXT and UPWEARS contributed to the event.
The high-level ESBBC-3 covered the entire value chain: from processes and applications to the performance and functionality of bio-based composites to computer-based approaches up to data and life cycle management. HSB was directly involved in the summer school: Professor Dr Jörg Müssig from the course progamme of Biomimetics, Biological Materials Research Group at HSB, was one of the co-organisers of the event. Together with conference chair Dr. Darshil Shah (University of Cambridge), he led a workshop on product design with waste items on the first day. In the specialist sessions, he organised and moderated the topic of material perception.
From a biomimetics perspective, the EU project UPWEARS, in particular the presentation by Professor Fritz Vollrath (University of Oxford) entitled ‘Biomimicry and biomaterials: from fundamental science to application’, was the focus of attention on the first day of the summer school. Jörg Müssig emphasises: ‘It was wonderful to see how dynamic and extremely exciting international research in the field of bio-based and bionic materials is.’
Participation in ESBBC-3 impressively demonstrates how internationally networked Hochschule Bremen is and what contribution its research groups are making to the further development of sustainable bio-based and biomimetic materials in a European context.
