The kick-off meeting of ALiCE, the recently created Associate Laboratory in Chemical Engineering, took place on January 21st, at FEUP Main Auditorium. During the event, ALiCE members and invitees got to know ALiCE main objectives and mission and its organisation in research thematic lines.

The ALiCE consortium, is composed by LEPABE, LSRE-LCM and CEFT, three R&D Units based at the Department of Chemical Engineering at FEUP. The Associate Laboratory status is attributed, through highly competitive calls, to institutions or consortia of scientific institutions that make institutional commitments to carry out the country's scientific and technological policy objectives.

Prof. Pedro Rodrigues (Vice-Rector of U.Porto), Prof. João Falcão e Cunha (Director of FEUP) and Prof. Nuno Rodrigues (Vice-Director of IPLeiria) were present at the meeting and addressed ALiCE members with kind and motivational words. ALiCE is thankful for all the support from U.Porto and FEUP in achieving this goal.

ALiCE team is proud of the accomplishments made so far and wishes all the success for ALiCE members in the future!

Maria José Sampaio, Researcher at FEUP and member of ALiCE and LSRE-LCM was this week's guest of 90 segundos de ciência (Antena 1).

Here, Maria José talks about the production of oxygen using a device developed at LSRE-LCM based on sustainable resources and technologies under the scope of the MicroPhotOGen project.  

The podcast can be found here. More information at U.Porto and Sapo news.