We are pleased to announce that our co-founder Massimo Mercuri will be joining the Advisory Board of SCImPULSE , as of June 30 th , 2017 and resigning from the Board of Directors.  Massimo recently joined AkzoNobel, in The Netherlands, as Director of Digital Innovation and Strategy “ to amplify the digital capabilities and accelerate growth by integrating digitalization into the DNA of that company ”. Part of his mission there is the creation of a space for experimentation that fosters an open innovation ecosystem. As you can imagine, it's not a simple mission, but we are confident that he is the right person to do this, after having steered SCImPULSE together through its start-up phase, which we have recently resumed in our yearly report ,  and we are united in wishing him success! CERN-Lego-Serious-Play Challenge Based Innovation   https://goo.gl/wJxhqj It is to ensure he can be successful in his new endeavour, and at the same time guarantee t...

Let’s welcome Winnie Poncelet and Gehan Macleod, Community Curator and OpenCare Fellows. Winnie and Gehan will be facilitating a series of themed sessions at the upcoming OpenVillage Festival in Brussels, Belgium, on October 19-21, 2017. This event is part of OpenCare, a research project on how to make health and social care accessible for all, open source and participatory. Image Credit: Edgeryders Winnie Poncelet - Engineer, Biologist, sustainable change maker, and Co-founder of the first DIYbio lab in Flanders. The organizations he’s co-founded involved science and technology. He’s been active in several different fields including engineering,  game theory, arts, sustainability, biotechnology, and education. Winnie has an unrivaled gift for inciting cooperation, deconstructing and combining diverse perspectives. His knack for capturing the overall picture and its diversity are sure to add a refreshing wave of change. He is coordinating the OpenInsulin re...

  We are proud to share with you that SCImPULSE has joined CERN openlab as a research member. The Chairman of our Board of Director, Dr. Marco Manca, and the Director General of CERN, Prof. Fabiola Gianotti, signed a collaboration framework agreement between SCImPULSE Foundation and CERN in November 2016. For those of you not familiar with this most exciting CERN endeavor, CERN openlab is a unique public-private partnership founded in 2001. Through CERN openlab, CERN collaborates with leading companies and research institutions to accelerate the development of the cutting-edge ICT solutions required to support researchers at CERN — and beyond — in their pioneering work. SCImPULSE Foundation has joined a project on big-data analytics with Intel and CERN; it addresses use cases related to industrial controls, physics analysis tools, and epidemiology. You might have already guessed we will be chiefly involved in the latter. Exciting times lie ahead, and we look forward to sh...