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SIMBLE project partners meet in Grenoble
The third, annual consortium meeting of the EDCTP SIMBLE project took place from 13 till 15 November 2023.
A delegation from Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, France and Canada travelled to Grenoble in France to discuss the project’s progress in person. The other partners and work package leaders gave an update online. The programme included a tour of the facilities of Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA), the French partner, where the development and fabrication of the lensfree microscope was explained and demonstrated. In addition, a two-day hybrid meeting in the mountains was held to discuss the progress and future plans of the SIMBLE consortium.
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