Research environments are full of advanced technology. Sensors, instruments, and specialized equipment are constantly purchased to support new projects. But what happens when the project ends?

For Lydia Boyle, a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, that question became the starting point for a new idea.

– We kept seeing valuable technologies and equipment being bought for short-term use, quietly shelved, and forgotten, she says.
– The result is unnecessary costs, unused equipment, and growing electronic waste.

Together with an interdisciplinary team of researchers and developers, she is now developing TREco – Technology Reuse Ecosystem, a platform designed to make research equipment visible, shareable, and reusable across institutions.

Lydia and Petra Hribosek will come to Eitri and tal about the project. They are one of the teams in the TILT program especially designed for researcher entrepreneurs by VIS and owners.

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