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Catalonia promotes technological and nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation

2025-11-13T08:56:57+01:00November 12th, 2025|Canvi Climàtic, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The European project IMPETUS, focused on implementing solutions for climate change adaptation in Europe, is now entering its final stage with significant results in Catalonia that demonstrate the potential of technological and nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Catalan coast. The activities in the Catalan coast, which will conclude [...]

Eurecat innovates in new fuels for the aviation industry to help decarbonise the sector and mobility

2025-11-03T16:19:54+01:00September 17th, 2025|Aeronautical, Press Notes, Química, Sustainability|

Today, at an H2CAT network conference in Lleida, the Eurecat technology centre presented innovations in new aviation fuels made from used oils and gases produced by combining captured carbon dioxide and green hydrogen which are expected to help decarbonise the industry and mobility. Eurecat pointed out how these materials can be used as raw [...]

Eurecat brings new technologies to six European consortia worth over €43 million to foster more sustainable mobility and logistics

2025-11-03T16:17:40+01:00September 16th, 2025|Automotive, Energy, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is contributing new technologies to six European consortia with a total budget of over €43 million to drive the transformation of urban mobility and logistics towards more circular, sustainable and digital models with the goal of advancing Europe’s green transition and achieving the climate neutrality target set by the European [...]

Eurecat leads project to turn forest management biomass into new sustainable products for the textile industry

2025-11-03T16:14:56+01:00September 12th, 2025|Functional fabrics, Press Notes, Textile|

The Eurecat technology centre is leading a project which will convert biomass produced by forest management into regenerated cellulose fibres for the textile industry in line with the push for the bioeconomy. The initiative, which also involves the Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia and the University of Lleida, seeks to add value [...]

New technologies to recycle critical metals in computer components

2025-11-03T16:12:43+01:00September 4th, 2025|Press Notes, WEEI|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the RECIPLAC project, supporting the social integration company Andròmines and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC) in developing a new advanced computer recycling process which will make it possible to recover critical and high-value metals such as palladium, copper and neodymium magnets. The project [...]

Eurecat hosts ROSCon Spain 2025, the conference bringing together the robot operating system developer community for the first time in Barcelona

2025-11-03T16:11:04+01:00August 29th, 2025|Autonomous and professional robotics, Events, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre, in partnership with the Open Source Robotics Foundation and PAL Robotics, is hosting the ROSCon Spain 2025 conference, an event that will gather Robot Operating System (ROS) developers for the first time in Barcelona so they can learn and work together to create robotics applications. The applications of Robot Operating [...]

Eurecat demonstrates photoprotective and anti-inflammatory potential of compounds from agricultural waste to improve skin health

2025-11-03T16:07:46+01:00August 28th, 2025|Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has demonstrated the photoprotective and anti-inflammatory potential of polyphenol-rich extracts from agricultural by-products such as chicory leaves, red onion skins, vine prunings and olive prunings, proving their effectiveness in three-dimensional in vitro models equivalent to human skin exposed to UV-B radiation in a paper recently published in the Journal of [...]

Eurecat takes part in climate change study on protecting Mediterranean wetlands to prevent their disappearance

2025-11-03T16:05:30+01:00August 26th, 2025|Canvi Climàtic, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre, in conjunction with other European institutions and universities, has conducted a study on the effects of climate change, particularly rising sea levels, on the disappearance of wetlands on the Mediterranean coast. The study points to the need to take action to prevent these formations from vanishing before the end of [...]

Eurecat and Doole Health build advanced telerehabilitation platform enabling personalised and continuous patient monitoring

2025-11-03T16:02:34+01:00August 21st, 2025|E-Health, Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre, in conjunction with Catalan SME Doole Health, has developed an advanced telerehabilitation platform called Rehabilify which enables patients to continue their treatment at home while keeping in touch with medical teams and ensuring personalised, effective and continuous monitoring. The platform, which has been backed by the Germans Trias i Pujol [...]

Organic photovoltaic panels for energy self-sufficient greenhouses

2025-11-03T16:00:01+01:00August 8th, 2025|Energy, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre and Lenium, a company specialising in developing and financing turnkey industrial projects, renewable energies and R&D and innovation initiatives, are to develop energy self-sufficient greenhouses by fitting organic photovoltaic panels which enable both power generation and plant growth. The project involves embedding semi-transparent printed organic cells which “use light synergistically, [...]

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