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Last November 24th, on the occasion of Entrepreneurial Women's Day, Xartec Salut organized a round table on the topic "Why is entrepreneurship worthwhile? Keys for starting a business in HealthTech", with the participation of Prof. Maria-Pau Ginebra, together with three other scientist women and entrepreneurships.

Dr. María Godoy-Gallardo and Dr. Jordi-Guillem Martí, both members of the Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Research Group, obtained two Ramón y Cajal Fellowships from Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) to consolidate their research careers at the UPC.

The end of RESPO-X has shown the seamless implementation of the researched proposed within the Erasmus+ project. : revolutioning e-skills with a participatory online expert system. The project has been a collaborative effort between universities and organizations, fostering and enhancing digital and green skills in higher education.

BBT has celebrated its VII Annual Meeting, with talks by Maria-Pau Ginebra, Meritxell Molmeneu, Miguel Mateu and Noelia Aparicio.

Dr. Marta Pegueroles has been funded in the last AGAUR Llavor call, with her project "4D Printing of Biodegradable Shape Memory Polymeric Stents (BIO-4D)".

BBT has joined the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER), which depends from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, in the area of bioengineering, biomaterials and nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), after appliying to an open call by ISCIII, in April 2023.

PhD students Simon Malacek (TU Graz, coordinator), Milica Zivanic (BBT-UPC) and Luisa Cardoso (Aalto), funded by Successful Unite! to carry on their proposal "Unite! Seed Fund Ideathon".

Dr. Laura del Mazo, FPU grantee by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) at BBT, has defended her Doctoral thesis at the EEBE.

Generalitat of Catalunya recognizes, once again, the research excellence of Maria-Pau Ginebra, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and director of the Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Tissue Engineering Research Group of the UPC, for the fourth consecutive time, with an ICREA Academy distinction in the area of technology and engineering.

On March 7th, took place the conference "I am a PhD, now what?", organized by BBT, and aimed at PhD students and young postdocs, with the intention of giving a global vision of professional opportunities once they have finished their doctoral studies, from the point of view of professionals in different work areas.