BiR&D Annual Event: Collaborative Initiatives between Industry & University to Foster Talent and Drive Innovation

🕙  Time: 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM
💡  Theme: “Joint initiatives between Industry & University to develop talents as a key element to boost innovation”

✨ Event Highlights

Join us for an inspiring day of learning and networking, where academia meets industry to shape the future of innovation. This year’s program showcases impactful collaborations that transform knowledge into value — all within a vibrant and engaging setting hosted at AB InBev. 

🕰  Time Table 

🔍 Teasers – Get a Sneak Peek! 

• At Syensqo, we are preparing to fly non-stop around the world in a green hydrogen-powered airplane. Nine days, zero emission flight – that’s our 2028 mission. As the main technology partner of Climate Impulse, Syensqo (formely Solvay) embarked on four years of intensive research, innovation, design and manufacturing together with industrial & academic partners. Join us behind the scenes to discover this ‘first-of-its-kind’ hydrogen-powered aircraft. It’s an environmental flagship, a human adventure to inspire generations to come, and a technology leap forward to advance humanity.  

• Longterm University –Industry interaction leads to new partnerships and collaborative model. Puratos and the University of Bolzano unite forces to create the International Competence Center on Food Fermentation in Italy. 

• New opportunities for the steel industry: how does OCAS/Arcelor Mittal develop specialty steel thanks to an industrial chair at UGhent marrying digital state of the art tools with classical metallurgy. Increasing success rate in Horizon Europe ‘s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) and attracting talents using a smart collaboration between industry and academia, collaboration with VUB. 

• KUL and ABinBev revamp an old trade: master brewer & maltster for the millennial generation at the heart of the beer country 

📌 Important Information 

• 🎟 Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory for access and logistics. 

• ❗ No-show fee of €75 will be charged to help us reduce food waste and cover event costs. 

• 📧 Contact:  info@BIRDBelgium.com for any questions. 

We look forward to welcoming you at  BiR&D’s Annual Event 2025 – where future-forward innovation begins with collaboration.