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The positions at the head of the organization representing the interests of the transfer community were defended by experienced matadors supplemented by several new faces. The members of Transfera.cz met on 21 March at the Hybernská Campus for a membership meeting, where a new board of directors was elected to manage the association for the next four years. That this will not be without changes in activity was indicated by the comments of some of the newly elected. At the same time, Transfera.cz elected its Supervisory Board and approved the reports on activities and management for 2022 and the plan of activities for 2023.

The advantage of PLA products over traditional plastics was supposed to be their biodegradability. Unfortunately, this often does not work in practice. A team of scientists from the Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic has come up with a solution on how to recycle and process PLA.

The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) has announced the preliminary parameters of the public competition for the programme to support industrial research and experimental development - TREND. According to preliminary information, TA CR should announce the competition on 5. April 2023.

They had no limits to their ideas, innovated the content, chose a playful form and got renowned external lecturers for the course. Who? People from the CeTTAV team. In the spring, the tried and tested training programme, Easy and Fast Transfer, will be presented in a new coat.

The Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the CAS and the start-up Sophomer Ltd. have signed a license agreement for the commercialization of their technology. The Technology Transfer Centre of the CAS also participated in the licensing. Helped negotiate the license terms and supported the approval of the license agreement by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Recently, this column reported on the formation of DATI by the German Federal Transfer Agency. My colleagues from CeTTAV and I asked ourselves questions about the meaning and transferability of such an idea. Finally, we decided to ask our colleague RNDr. et Mgr. Ruzena Stemberkova, Ph.D., MPA, Head of the Technology Transfer Office of the University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice. We sought the opinion of a professional who has been involved in transfer for a long time and has experience with cross-border projects.

A new alga, yellow chlorella with a high content of lutein (0.5%), was bred by scientists at the Institute of Microbiology of the CAS - Algatech Centre in Třeboň.

What would centralization of transfer at the national level bring us? Are the experiences of our neighbours transferable? Do we also need something like a national transfer agency? Before you accept or reject the idea outright, try reading the following lines.