Report on conferences, trade shows and annual panel sessions M36

Attendance at conferences and trade shows To strengthen the project dissemination create awareness about the project to find synergies and cooperation with initiatives and stakeholders especially to increase networking within academia and with industry there are 8 visits to international conferences and trade shows foreseen The International Society for optics and Photonics SPIE Smart Structures and Nondestructive Evaluation panel Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices EAPADIEEE Robotics and Automation Society RoboSoftInternational Symposium on Wearable Robotics WearRAconInternational Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems Living MachinesInternational conference on Electromechanically Active Polymer transducers artificial muscles EuroEAPInternational Conference on Soft Robotics and Flexible Materials ICSRFMTradeshows IDTechEx Business Insight Forums Printed Electronics Flexible Printed and Organic Electronics TWINNIMS annual panel sessions To ensure the visibility of the TWINNIMS project as part of the international conferences listed above the consortium organises 3 annual panel sessions on the project The sessions will be organized as sideevents of the conferences The panels will focus on the capacity building focus areas and lessons learnt from the project activities As the project focuses on the topics that are novel in the research area knowledge sharing with wider audiences in form of annual panel sessions is mutually beneficial for the organisers from the consortium and for the audience Also it enables networking for grant or project writing purposes Each panel session will have 20 participants