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The international community of transfer agents met this year in Tallinn, Estonia. The annual conference of ASTP, Europe's leading association of technology and knowledge transfer professionals, was attended by CeTTAV colleagues in the Estonian capital. The event has the status of the largest transfer conference in Europe.

"This year, the flagship of transfer education, the easy and fast Transfer course, has undergone a number of modifications and changes. We have restructured, reworked and expanded the topics," explained Martin Smekal, head of CeTTAV, at the beginning.

The next edition of the Business with Innovation conference took place at the end of April in Prague. The event was sponsored by the Association of Research Organisations.

The next edition of the Transfer Discussion Platform focused on the ambitious CzechInvest Technology Incubation project. The guest of the April edition was Roman Ruffer, the manager who takes care of the project partners and who presented the programme in detail.

90 percent of investors were able to evaluate their investment in the startup. The aim of the fourth year of DEPO Ventures research was to map the environment of angel investing in the Czech Republic. Havel & Partners and CzechInvest also collaborated on the research.

The forthcoming law on research, development, innovation and knowledge transfer, the outlook for the financing of the Academy of Sciences from the state budget for the coming years and the recent successes of scientists from its departments. These were not the only themes heard on 18. April 2023 at the National House at Vinohrady in Prague at the LXI. of the Academic Assembly.

At the end of March, the Bavarian capital hosted the event DEEP TECH GREEN TRANSITION AND DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO TRANSFORM THE EU's INDUSTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS.

The Technology Transfer Centre of the CAS has been selected as the official supplier of the ambitious Technology Incubation project of the CzechInvest agency.

We asked RNDr. about their perception of their contribution to the direction of the Transfera.cz association in the upcoming four-year period et Mgr. Ruzena Stemberkova, Ph.D., MPA, Head of the Technology Transfer Office of the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice and Vice President of the Association.

The transfer of a new compact method for converting methane to methanol, developed by a team of scientists led by Jiri Dedecek, has a great chance of being applied in industry. In the search for partners for industrial use, scientists from the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the CAS are cooperating with transfer engineers from the Centre for Technology Transfer of the CAS (CeTTAV). The method could, for example, make fuel cheaper.