Our laboratory is one of the 27 members of  the EU-supported Network of Excellence termed GOSPEL (General Olfaction and Sensing Projects on a European Level).
The aim of the Network is to bring together scientific institutes and industrial partners, in order to develop technology and its commercial outcome. At present, the sensors for chemicals are widely used, ranging from the control of gases in cars, to the

detection of  toxic substances in the environment or of the presence of peculiar molecules, markers of some pathologies.
Our laboratory is part of the Center of Excellence on Biomimetics for Artificial Olfaction, which brings together some leader groups in Europe on the study of the biological mechanisms of olfaction. The goal of our common research projects is to give to the technology scientits, responsible for hardware and software development, some models of functioning of animal chemical senses, which can be useful for the development of new systems for the detection of chemicals, the so-called ‘artificial noses’.