The first \u201ctechnological afternoon\u201d was held on Tuesday, March 13th at the headquarters of API Lecco with a purely technical view of the history of the Association.<\/strong> The main topics of the seminar were Non-Destructive Testing and Non-Invasive Measurement Techniques: four speakers, from both the industrial and the academic world, took the stage during an afternoon deliberately conceived to promote an exchange and enhancement of know-how between the two environments.<\/p>\n TAG was behind the choice of this topic for the first seminar: reflecting on certain aspects, we realised that too often there is a lack of awareness within enterprises in the surrounding territory regarding the possible solutions available to them to face “every day\u201d problems.<\/strong> Hence the idea to contact a local association such as API Lecco, as well as its own start-up ApiTech, to propose an afternoon of in-depth study on these issues, an invitation that was promptly received with considerable enthusiasm.<\/p>\n This is how the idea of the first “technological afternoon<\/strong>” came about, promoting a sort of “format<\/em>“, that we think we can replicate in the future extending to other topics, to meet the actual needs of local enterprises. The feedback obtained after the first meeting was certainly positive: over thirty participants, including engineers and technical experts representing enterprises in the area, showed an interest at the seminar; we have all we need, therefore, to continue in this direction.<\/p>\n The topic of this first meeting was proposed by our collaborator Flavio Vendramin, a specialist and expert in Non-Destructive Testing.<\/strong> “In the common imaginary, the NDTs are a set of inspection methodologies applicable solely to certain niche industries, for example aeronautics: the objective I set myself when organising this meeting was to disseminate information and boost awareness on these methods<\/strong>, which can actually be very useful to resolve a much wider range of problems … to do so, however, we must be aware of this great opportunity!”.<\/p>\n\n\t\tTHE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY<\/h3>\n