ITM Poland 2011 - 14-17.06.2011
Symbiosis between science and business at the ITM Poland fair
Over 900 exhibitors from dozens of countries and territories, more than 20 000 m² of exhibition area and 16 000 visitors from Poland and abroad - this is the assessment of the Innovations-Technologies-Machines Poland (ITM Poland) 2010 fair that ended on 11 June. It is the tenth time the Research for Industry project, the purpose of which was to promote the applied sciences and to transfer their achievements to the industrial practice, was an integral part of the fair.
During the ITM Poland fair, research and development units, universities, and also companies and institutions supporting the innovations and technology transfer presented their offers addressed to the industry at the stands of the Research for Industry. This is the most important exhibition event during a year that serves the communication and exchange of experience between the world of science and industry. Participation of the science units in the fair was subsidized by the Minister of Science and Higher Education.
Research for Industry is the meeting place for the specialists representing different branches of industry and the numerous representatives of applied sciences. It is also a unique opportunity to make acquainted with many examples of the prototype equipment and innovative technologies, which are marked with the "New" sign and are easy to find. The stands of the 10th edition of the Research for Industry 60 exhibitors have been placed in different pavilions - at the branch exhibitions which best suited their activity profile.
Space industry innovations and cybertechnology
The fair was filled with novelties, which as a magnet attracted the public and the Polish media. Among nearly a 100 registered innovations, of which over 30 have been presented by the Research for Industry exhibitors, one could find, among the other, a new generation town monitoring intelligent system, developed at the Gdańsk University of Technology Department of Multimedia Systems, automatically detecting the hazard indicating situations, intelligent protective clothing, which automatically turns heating of the particular parts of the clothing on or off, offered by the Central Institute for Labour Protection, and also the aerogel waistcoat, resistant to the temperatures +3000 and -50 degrees Celsius, presented at the shared stand of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN) Space Research Centre and the European Space Agency (full list of the novelties is available at www.itm-polska.pl). Great interest was aroused by a CyberFish, designed by three students of automatics and robotics at the Cracow University of Technology Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, who thanks to the advanced electronics and structural solutions behaves as a real fish and can serve the researches of the bottoms of lakes and rivers, and for the analysis of the compounds contained in water.
Marriage of science and business
How to implement new ideas and finance inventive innovations? Answers to these and many other questions in the range of conducting the business activity could have been obtained free of charge at the Advisory Centre „Business innovations". Within the common project of Międzynarodowe Targi Poznańskie and the Poznań Science and Technoology Park UAM Foundation the specialists recommended to entrepreneurs the sources of financing of the innovative investments, and also assisted in searching potential partners among the companies and the science units. More detailed and complementing information could have been obtained at the key offices and institutions stands that surrounded the Centre, such as: Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Ministry of Economy, National Centre of Research and Development, NOT Innovation Centre, Patent Office and the Main Council of the Research and Development Units. Special credits have been offered by Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego.
Meetings and conferences
The unquestionable trump card of the ITM Poland 2010 fair was rich program of events accompanying the exhibition, filled with shows held on the special areas as well as the debates and conferences raising the issues essential for the economy. To the advanced technologies which are the driving force of the economical growth the VIII Engineering Forum organized by the Polish Federation of Engineering Associations NOT was dedicated. Program of the forum included four discussion panels concerning, among the other, the advanced technologies in practical economy and the purposeful projects in the small and medium companies sector with substantially high level of innovativeness. Great interest was aroused by the seminary titled Transfer of Space Technology organized together with the European Space Agency, POLSPACE/ASTRI Polska and the Space Research Centre PAN, the main aim of which was to encourage Polish companies to use the technologies that are applied in the Space.
Laurels for the best
The best and most innovative products presented during the ITM Poland 2010 fair have been rewarded with Gold Medals. The winners have been selected by the competition award committee, which was composed of the greatest academic authorities from the sectors represented at the fair. For the fourth time the competition was also adjudicated for the Gold Medal in the category „transfer of the scientific research results to the practical economy". These prestigious awards have been received by as many as 9 scientific units (full list of companies awarded in the above competitions is available at the Internet site www.itm-polska.pl).
We invite you to the next edition
The largest fair dedicated to the modern solutions for the industry, the ITM Poland 2010 enjoyed the great interest of the professional public. Exhibitors of this year's edition did not hide their satisfaction of the quality of talks carried out and the number of established contacts. The next edition of the ITM Poland fair will take place 14 and 17 June 2011. We cordially invite you!
