The last and the most exciting part of the mandatory SFI Midway Evaluation took place on March 6th. A panel of two specialists, manager Isabel Geldenhuys (Mintek, South Africa) and professor Bart Blanpain (KU Leuven, Belgium) and two generalists, professor Mary O'Kane (O'Kane Associates, Australia) and dr. Mattias Lundberg (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, Sweden) visited the Centre for a day.

Within this day the Centre management, RD-leaders, Executive Committee and Dean at the NV Faculty had interesting hours together with the well-informed Panel. The Panel had their own session with PhD and postdoc and they also found place for a short lab tour. The day turned out to be a positive day with fruitful discussions combined with genuine and reflective questions from the Panel. Thanks to all the participants for contributions during the day and to all Partners in the Centre for the preparation in advance!