Two PVLab members win award for CTI entrepreneurship
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The CTI Entrepreneurship awarded two members of PVLab and their groups for their projects for a startup.
Monica Morales-Masis (PVLab-EPFL - Group leader), David Lambelet (Galatea Lab-EPFL) and Jonathan Fiorentini (U. St. Gallen) won the ‘Best business concept’ award with the project: Low-cost iron battery for the developing world. The team received as well a second prize sponsored by the ‘Service de l’economie du canton de Neuchatel’ (NECO) corresponding to a seeding grant of 5000 CHF upon incorporation of a startup in Neuchatel. PVlab PhD student Ana C. Martins won the 2nd price award of the CTI Entrepreneurship Training Spring 2017 – Business Concept, given by the Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), Switzerland with the project SUNLIGHT, a rigid lightweight PV panel developed for Building integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) applications. The team members won 10h of private coaching by NEODE to further develop the project.
