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Starting today, the Eurecat technology centre is presenting the DANTIAN project at the Alimentaria fair in Barcelona. This project studies new foods and bioactive ingredients that will encourage mental well-being through the understanding of the mechanism at cognitive level and its relationship with the microbiota and intestinal health. In this vein, studies are being carried out [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is the technical coordinator of a consortium of seven companies led by Raventós Codorníu which has kicked off an ambitious project to apply artificial intelligence to production processes in the food industry. It is called ALIMENTE 21 – Smart food industry for the 21st century, and its main goal is to enhance industrial [...]
The Antoni Gaudí Auditorium hosted the unveiling of Hub Foodtech & Nutrition, one of the most ambitious projects Reus Town Council is submitting for EU Next Generation European Funds. It is led by the Council through municipal firm REDESSA, Tarragona Provincial Council, Rovira i Virgili University, the Eurecat technology centre and the private sector, represented by the [...]
Artificial intelligence in health provides diagnostic support which helps detect diseases and injuries and predict the effectiveness of a given treatment and the evolution of the patient, thus paving the way for more preventive and personalised medicine. That’s the message from the ‘White Paper on AI applied to Health’ which has just been unveiled [...]
The Eurecat Reus technology centre is to kick off a study next January to assess the effects of probiotic supplementation on the symptoms of persistent allergic rhinitis and the quality of life of people affected who account for 21.5 percent of the population, with the greatest impact on young children and young people. To be eligible for [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus site has called for volunteers to help evaluate the effect of daily intake of a non-alcoholic extract from the wine industry on the change in blood pressure values in people with high blood pressure and grade 1 hypertension. The study, which consists of five face-to-face visits during which participants’ blood pressure, [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus-based Biotechnology Division is calling for volunteers to take part in a new study with post-menopausal women to better shape future nutritional strategies and prevent associated symptoms and illnesses. The study is to examine a number of metabolic, hormonal and gut microbiota parameters in 200 post-menopausal women in order to identify by [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is backing food innovation and design by taking part in World Food Design Day 2021, a 20-hour international online marathon run by the FORK organisation this Saturday, 16 October, to tie in with World Food Day. Design and creative solutions will take centre stage at this event which will share best practices, actions [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is leading the European MED4Youth project, the first nutritional intervention study to evaluate the effects of a Mediterranean diet-based dietary intervention against obesity in teenagers across several countries with a view to encouraging and helping this population segment to adopt healthy habits. As of 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that youth obesity has [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the BAGESS (Big Data, Analytics, Management and Strategy in Health and Social Care) Territorial Specialisation and Competitiveness Project which has a twofold purpose. Firstly it seeks to enhance the quality of life and further the social inclusion of people with dependency and chronic illnesses by making them into [...]
