Ten projects were selected for this edition of HiTech, the initiative driven by HiSeedTech with the support from faculty of leading American universities Brown, NC State, Rutgers.

For 18 weeks 36 technologists with the support of 20 mentors and four advisors, will develop a business case for a product concept fostered by the technology proposed. The program will start on the 15th of March and will finish on the 13th of July. Scroll down for the list of projects.

The projects selected to take part in HiTech 2022 are:

• BioElectroFilm
  Institution: CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, University of Aveiro
  Team: Ana Barra, Zélia Alves
  
  
• BioReboot
  Institutions:BioReboot, ISOPlexis - Centre of Sustainable Agriculture and Food Technology from Madeira University and Centre for the Research and Technology of Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB) from University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD)
  Team: Carla Ragonezi, Eduardo Leite, Miguel Pinheiro de Carvalho, Thiago Gomes
  
  
• Boosting circularity: Biodegradable photonic Smart labels for mobile Sensing, authentication and IoT
  Institution: Department of Physics, CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials from University of Aveiro; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Instituto de Telecomunicações from Instituto Superior Técnico
  Team: Bárbara Vaz, João Ramalho, Lília Dias, Rute André, Paulo André
  
  

• FT-Risc-V
  Institution:Celestia Portugal
  Team: Rui Duarte, Pedro Direita
  
  

• Fykia Biotech
  Institutions:Fykia Biotech, CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research
  Team: Ana Vieira, Carlos Henriques, Hugo Amaral, Pedro Leão, Ralph Urbatzka
  
  

• HuTissue
  Institution:CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Metatissue
  Team: Catarina Custódio, Fabiana Pereira, Gonçalo Amador, Inês Deus, Sara Catarina Santos
  
  

• MyoChip
  Institution:iMM – Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes
  Team: Afonso Malheiro, David Barata, Inês Martins, Katharina Hennig
  
  

• PURR.AI
  Institutions:CNC - Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology and CIBB - Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology , from Faculty of Sciences and Technology - University of Coimbra
  Team: Irina S Moreira, Nícia Rosário-Ferreira
  
  

• SENSEPREDICT
  Institution:University of Évora
  Team: Carla Simões, Elsa Lamy, Inês Caeiro
  
  

• TINK
  Institution:CENIMAT-i3N, FCT NOVA
  Team: André Opinião, Guilherme Mendes Ferreira, Suman Nandy
  
  

Congratulations to each of the projects selected!

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