The Eurecat technology centre together with several businesses in the tourism value chain is engaged in seven digitalisation and technology development projects in the tourism industry with a total budget coming to over €2.5 million as part of the Last Mile call for proposals from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism. In these [...]
As part of the COMDUR project, the Eurecat technology centre is to develop a digital self-diagnosis platform to enable retail outlets to roll out sustainable activities designed to unlock integrated circularisation in their business operations and thus enhance competitiveness and innovation in this trade sector. The technological platform Eurecat is to implement in the [...]
Catalan firm Marina Textil has partnered up with the Eurecat technology centre to roll out a circular economy project to generate a new fabric harnessing up to 88 percent of the waste that until now was thrown away during the company’s industrial process. Using this innovative technology, they estimate that up to 5,500 kg [...]
The European RESETTING project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has rolled out the digital and ecological transformation of 60 small and medium-sized European tourism enterprises, 14 of them in Tarragona, and they have received over half a million euros in grants to enhance their resilience and sustainability by integrating innovative technologies. The project’s [...]
Monitoring the physical exercises prescribed by the physiotherapist, communicating via chat with the medical team, remembering medication and scheduled medical visits and giving tailored recommendations on health and wellbeing anchored in artificial intelligence: these are just some of the features of a new personalised digital health app developed by the Eurecat technology centre in conjunction [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European GuestXR project which has announced an open call for innovative applications and projects which tap new extended reality technologies, mainly virtual and augmented reality tools, to tackle social challenges. The call invites individuals and organisations from across Europe to submit applications which help to foster education, reduce conflicts between social [...]
Artificial intelligence is a crucial technology in managing the water cycle as a tool for anticipating and making informed decisions to address the challenges in this area which are shaped by the effects of climate change including drought and flood risk, rising and unbalanced water demand and ageing infrastructure stock. This is the message [...]
El centre tecnològic Eurecat participa en el projecte HEREWEAR, que està impulsant noves solucions de materials basades en els últims desenvolupaments de cel·lulosa i polièsters de base biològica, dins d’un enfocament holístic que busca impulsar un mercat de la Unió Europea per a tèxtils circulars i peces de vestir produïdes localment a partir de [...]
A new smart predictive maintenance system for street lighting systems will enable integration of multiple data sources and their real-time processing by tapping artificial intelligence algorithms to help generate predictive recommendations, identify abnormalities, anticipate faults and prescribe maintenance tasks. The platform, which has been developed as part of the Predalin project led by Sociedad [...]
The increased use of water resources and problems arising from climate change ‘mean reusing water is emerging as a growing need’ since it is an asset that is ‘too valuable to be used just once, in a context of water scarcity resulting from population growth’, explains Miquel Rovira, the director of the Eurecat technology [...]
