Ipanema 2020

twelve-member ipanema consortium implements competences of participating academic & industry beneficiaries and 3rd country partners to 1) create a knowledge/experience-sharing network of scientists, entrepreneurs & end-users in the multidisciplinary field of biosensors for poct (point-of care testing); 2) develop innovative bottom-up approaches for fabrication of low-cost poct devices & implementation of paper-based nucleic acid testing (nat); 3) pursue applications in 3 important industry sectors – healthcare, agrifood & environmental monitoring. research & innovation (r&i) activities will be focused on developing low-cost paper-based isothermal nats, their integration into microfluidic devices and optimization for use in a) tissue engineering b) agrifood (poultry/plant/fungal) pathogen detection c) detection of toxigenic freshwater cyanobacteria causing harmful algal blooms. secondments & trainings will enable researchers to acquire both technical & soft skills needed for converting