Nb. 5 - March 21st, 2023 - One year already!

A new platform, some new logos, new events, new faces... : Spring is definitely under the sign of renewal!

One year old... This Spring, the UCLouvain technology platforms newsletter celebrates its very first anniversary, with a quite a lot of news.

First of all, we can now officially announce the creation of a new platform: the Consultations Psychologiques Spécialisées (CPS) which is holding its inaugural conference on Thursday, April 20.

With the support of the Province du Brabant wallon, some platforms have developed a new logo. In April, many of our platforms will take part in 4 thematic morning sessions (medtech, deeptech, digital and transition) along with companies.

And of course, you can read here some recent platform news that are related to research or teaching, and find out who has recently joined our platforms' teams.

Enjoy your reading!

The platforms community

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Boost innovation in your company with the technology platforms of UCLouvain
Technology platforms give you access to
expertise, equipment and infrastructures at the cutting edge of technology.
Come and discover them, hear from entrepreneurs who have collaborated with some of them and take the opportunity to boost your innovation during four thematic breakfasts on April 19, 20, 25 and 27!

The Consultations Psychologiques Spécialisées (CPS) platform invites you to its inaugural conference on Thursday, April 20, 2023
Founded in 2022, the platform focuses on topics such as High Potential, life history, neuropsychology and logopedics, career guidance, orthopedagogy, parenthood, psychoanalysis and person-centred therapy, as well as emotion-focused therapy.

Consultations Psychologiques Spécialisées
Psychological interventions and understanding of adaptive and maladaptive psychological behaviours.

Center of Investigation in Clinical Nutrition
Clinical nutrition studies
to assess the benefit of food supplements or food on human health
Contact

Interested in testing the health benefits of plant combinations? The CICN is the place to be!
The CICN platform is performing several studies and is looking for volunteers to test the effectiveness of plant combinations on :
• sleep disorders (valerian/California poppy)
• slow intestinal transit (kiwi/peony/magnolia/prebiotic)
• mood disorders (rhodiola/saffron)

Open Educational Resources : CREDEM, LACaMi et LEMSC are actively involved !
Virtual laboratory videos were recorded in the CREDEM, LACaMi and LEMSC platforms
  • "Fabrication mécanique : laboratoire de tournage et fraisage"
  • "Structures en béton armé : Essai de flexion sur poutre en béton armé"
The success of these videos exceeds today the circle of the UCLouvain students since they cumulate more than 100 000 views on Youtube and are now proposed in OER.

Design, prototyping and testing of electromechanical devices
Prototypes tailored to meet specific needs in a large variety of research areas: robotics, mechatronics, bioengineering, fluid mechanics, process engineering, thermodynamics, and energy.
Contact

 

Mechanical testing, structures, and civil engineering laboratory
• Mechanical control tests on materials
• Special tests on railway equipment
• Design of special tests on the 200 m² test floor
 

Mechanical testing, structures, and civil engineering laboratory
• Mechanical control tests on materials
• Special tests on railway equipment
• Design of special tests on the 200 m² test floor

What if we built floors out of logs?
The aim is to explore the possibilities of using logs in multi-story building construction

A prototype footbridge built with tensegrity
In tensegrity structures, compressed bars appear to float within tensioned cables ...

"XR": the MiiL participated in the inauguration of the first academy dedicated to "x-tended reality" careers
The “x-tended reality” also called XR is growing incredibly fast. A trend initiated by the world of video games, its technologies and its uses.
 

The MiiL collaborates to the RTBF TV show The Dancer
In the framework of the TV show "The Dancer" of the RTBF, MiiL developed an interface - Opinio - inviting the spectators to send a photo of their face, to choose a theme, to realize a personalized choreography, and to generate a video.

Media Innovation & Intelligibility Lab
Audiovisual production, new visual communication, digital device design and evaluation

Summer school
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Python
11 to 14.07.2023 - Information and registration
 
• Text Mining and Medical Data Analysis in Python
11 to 15.09.2023 - Information and registration

Center for Natural Language Processing
Expertise in the computer processing of textual data
Contact

Statistical Methodolody and Computing Service
Data analysis training courses and consultancy services

A new logo with the support of the Province du Brabant wallon for technology platforms:

 

Cyclotron Resource Centre
• Exploitation of multi-charge ion beams, protons and neutrons for radiation resistance testing of electronic components
• Production of microporous membranes
Contact

Analysis, characterization, and processing laboratory
 • Processing of materials (metallic materials and polymers)
• Chemical analysis
• Microstructural characterisation

Contact

MIcroscopic ChAracterization of functional and nanostructured materials
Microscopic characterisation in materials science, chemistry, solid state physics and (bio)nanotechnology Contact

Plant Cultivation Facilities Greenhouses and growth chambers for monitoring and management of crops under semi-controlled conditions (aeration, humidification, heating and lighting)
 

SUrface CHaracterization
Expertise and techniques allowing to characterize the surface of materials and biomaterials
 
 
 
 

Welcome!
 Nearly 300 people are working on a daily basis within the UCLouvain platforms. Discover those who have joined this community in the last 3 months!

Caroline Barbé (right) took over the management of the CICN, which also welcomed Lucas Jonniaux (left) as clinical study coordinator. For his new position, Lucas will be in charge of managing the DELICEN'S impact study which aims to develop a range of food products nutritionally adapted to elderly people at risk of undernutrition.

Simon De Jaeger joined the CREDEM platform in early January. He is in charge of rapid prototyping, both mechanical (3D printing, laser cutting, milling of wood panels etc.) and electronic (programming of microcontrollers such as Arduino, Raspberry Pi etc.).

At the beginning of January, Simon Vanderveken joined the Fermes universitaires team, where he will manage the vegetable garden and research projects on the Lauzelle site. He will also be in charge of the field monitoring of farmers' trials in the framework of the CERES - Agricultures en Transition project financed by the Baillet Latour Fund.

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