Event featured representatives from EMBRAPII, partnering companies and specialists from CNPEM
Event Celebrating 10 Years of the CNPEM Embrapii Unit Held on November 18.
To commemorate its first ten years as an accredited EMBRAPII unit, leaders of the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM) gathered with representatives from EMBRAPII, specialists from partnering companies, and acclaimed researchers to mark this trajectory. The event, entitled “The CNPEM EMBRAPII Unit: 10 years driving innovation,” included presentations and important discussions on projects carried out within the unit, as well as future prospects for this model at CNPEM.
The agenda included three roundtable discussions on the topics of industrial biotechnology and sustainability, new solutions in health and new materials and safety, as well as presentations by CNPEM Director General Antonio José Roque da Silva, EMBRAPII Director of Innovation and Institutional Relations Igor Manhães Nazareth, and the coordinator of CNPEM’s EMBRAPII unit, Patricia Magalhães.
“During the ten years of accreditation, the EMBRAPII model provided visible benefits for expanding CNPEM’s contribution to generating innovation in companies of various sizes and sectors, which benefited our competencies, qualified human resources and infrastructure, in complex projects with high potential for innovation and impact in the health, energy, renewable materials and sustainability sectors. Over the next 10 years, we hope to further drive innovation within Brazil’s productive environment through the technologies developed in partnership with the CNPEM unit,” notes Patricia Magalhães.
About CNPEM’s EMBRAPII unit
CNPEM has been accredited as an EMBRAPII unit since 2014, and in 2019 broadened its competencies to include biotechnology, with the possibility to host projects in the area of health. In 2023, CNPEM assumed the presidency of the MCTI/EMBRAPII Network for Innovation in the Bioeconomy to promote R&D&I activities that add value to and sustainably utilize Brazil’s biodiversity. Funding for the research and development projects carried out between EMBRAPII units and companies serves to share the risks of innovation with the manufacturing sector, offering non-reimbursable resources, continuous flow, and agility of direct negotiations between the company and the accredited unit. Learn more about Innovation at CNPEM.
About CNPEM
CNPEM is home to a state-of-the-art, multi-user and multidisciplinary scientific environment with activities within different fronts of the Brazilian National System for Science, Technology and Innovation. A social organization overseen by the MCTI, CNPEM is driven by research that impacts the areas of health, energy, renewable materials, and sustainability. It is responsible for Sirius, the largest assembly of scientific equipment constructed in the country, and is currently developing Project Orion, a laboratory complex for advanced pathogen research. Highly specialized science and engineering teams, sophisticated infrastructure open to the scientific community, strategic lines of investigation, innovative projects involving the productive sector, and training for researchers and students are the pillars of this institution that is unique in Brazil and able to serve as a bridge between knowledge and innovation.
