The External Relations Department is responsible for all comunication between NEB-FEUP/ICBAS and outside organizations. Our team members:- Represent the student organization in events and meetings where our presence is required;- Search for and negociate partnerships to enable the existence of the events carried out by NEB-FEUP/ICBAS thorough the year, especially the Symposium on Bioengineering;- Write BioBOW! publications: articles through which the youngest Bioengineering students can learn from scientific papers which can be quite complex.

This internship introduced me in great detail to the side of the corporate world that leans strongly on research and development. I had contact mostly with laboratory and pilot scales of the development of industrial water treatment solutions, with a focus on bio-based solutions. My project enabled me to gain a deeper understanding of the functioning of biorreactors for water treatment, as well as what can be deduced from the evolution of the protozoa profile in six months.

In the Innovation sector, my work was centered on the development of cork products' prototypes and the performance of physical and chemical quality tests.I also had the opportunity to contact with all the industry sectors, and better understand how the operation units of a scaled-up factory function and leverage each other.

Análises laboratoriais de extratos de uma planta - Chrozophora tinctoria - para investigação dos seus componentes e possíveis aplicações dos mesmos. Tive neste estágio o meu primeiro contacto com uma equipa de investigação, no decorrer dos seus trabalhos para a publicação de um dos seus artigos científicos.