28 Jun 2018 --- “Plastics are supposed to be smart too” was the concluding note of the opening for a new joint research platform commencing in Colombia, between Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) and the Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación del Plástico y del Caucho (ICIPC), coined: Sustainable PlastIcs and Related IoT (Internet of things)-Applications (SPIRIT).