On 16 and 17 of September 2013 the National Service of Industrial Apprenticeship (SENAI) promoted in Curitiba-PR the First International Seminar on Industrial Innovation in Electrochemistry, which attended more than 150 participants from Universities, Industries and government agencies. The motivation of this seminar was to disseminate and consolidate the culture of applied research and development, as well as innovation, in the Brazilian industry and at the same time raise awareness for industries that innovation is a strategic agenda for sustainability and competitiveness. Electrochemistry is therefore an inductor of this process, due to its broad possibilities of application in several areas.

During the seminar invited lectures of companies have shown several cases of projects undertaken with universities and researchers from national and international universities, in terms of applied research in electrochemistry. The invited speakers were from different countries, universities and research centers, such as the Department of Applied Electrochemistry of the Fraunhofer Institute from Germany, the Center for Electrochemistry and Environmental Technologies (CNETE) from Canada, the University of Manchester from United Kingdom, the Institute Acreo from Sweden and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the United States of America. As far as Brazil is concerned, the invited speakers came from Universities (such as UFAL and UFSCar) and different companies such as Volvo, Braskem, AkerSolutions, Itaipu, Rodhia, Weg Tintas, Tecno Plating, Copel, Neoortho, Klabin and Paranaense Metrics Network.

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• Caroline Cardozo AguiarSenai- Paraná

• Elaine Cristina de Andrade - Senai Paraná

• Filipe Miguel Cassapo  - Senai Paraná

• Juliana Paganni Lopes - Senai Paraná

• Gabriela Jacomel Nogueira - Senai Paraná

• Maisa Luana Silvestrin  - Senai Paraná

• Marcos Antonio Coelho Berton - Senai Paraná

• Mirian Soares Vieira  - Senai Paraná

• Paulo Roberto Dantas Marangoni - Senai Paraná

• Rafael Rodrigues Mandrik - Senai Paraná

• Rosa Maria Rabelo Junqueira - Senai Minas Gerais

• Mila Galeitzke - Fraunhofer IPK

• Markus Will - Fraunhofer IPK

• Peter Rabenecker - Fraunhofer ICT

• Nancy Déziel - CNETE, Quebec – Canada

• Juliano de Andrade - Lactec

• Cláudia Eliana Bruno Marino - UFPR - Eng. Mecânica

• Haroldo de Araújo PonteUFPR - Eng. Química

• Marcio Eduardo Vidotti Miyata - UFPR – Química

• Noel Massinhan Levy - Copel

• Paulo Rogério Pinto Rodrigues - Unicentro - PR

• Sandra Regina Moraes - FAFIUV

• Paulo Cezar Túlio - UTFPR

• João Batista Floriano - UTFPR