The EIT RawMaterials Hub - Regional Center Southern Italy (RCSI), by Co-Location Center South, supported the Start Cup Puglia 2020 - Business Competition by means the Prize (cash 3000 euro) Connecting Matter to be awarded to the most innovative business plan, proposed by young innovators, devoted to critical raw materials and related technologies.

The winner 2020 of the Connecting Matter Prize was the business plan NUMINA devoted to a low-cost electrochemical device for detection rapid test of contaminations (heavy metals, pesticides) in the waste-water. The project was presented by individual team of young innovators from University of Salento in Lecce (Puglia/Italy).