The 24th of June District Information Science and Technology - DIST, the Ladies Committee of Confindustria Bari Plurals - Bat  and Puglia ( Apulia with other Provincial Committees ) organized a very well attended event ITWIIN 2010. The event has also benefited from the contribution of ' ARTS ( Regional Agency for Technology and Innovation ) , Councillor for Equality of the Puglia Region , CNR, CIHEAM - IAMB , Telpress , ITALGEST , FCRP (Fondazione Cassa Risparmio Puglia). The project was sponsored by the EU , the Ministries of Economic Development, Labour and Social Affairs , local governments and universities.

• The number one act of the event was handing out out the Best Italian inventor 2010 Award to , ANGELA SERPE researcher at the University of Cagliari and co- founder of the spin off  company "3R Metals" has developed a novel process for the recycling o f not used raw materials from wastes (in particular , recovery of precious metals such as Palladium from hi - tech waste such as computers , mobile phones etc.).

  In contrast to the conventional technologies used to recover the precious metal is applied without the use of high temperatures.

• The Best Innovative Italian Award 2010 went to Dr.Carla Ferreri, Senior Researcher of CNR in Bologna and founder of the spin off   "Lipinutragen" , who presented the project "Profile lipidomics of cell membranes: a molecular approach applied to human health. "