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Volunteers sought to receive personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips using an app

2022-07-25T16:49:51+02:00April 14th, 2021|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat Reus technology centre has appealed for volunteers to help test a new app which will provide them with personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips tailored to each person’s physical and behavioural traits and their preferences, physical condition and metabolism. This research is part of the European Preventomics (Empowering consumers to PREVENT diet-related diseases through OMICS sciences) project. It [...]

Catalan Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency visits Eurecat Amposta

2022-07-25T16:52:36+02:00April 12th, 2021|Corporatiu, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Bernat Solé, the Catalan Government’s Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency, today visited Eurecat’s Amposta site. It is home to the centre’s Department of Climate Change which is laying the foundations for what will be a future centre of excellence in climate resilience. Eurecat’s Department of Climate Change is part of the technology centre’s Sustainability Division and targets [...]

The digital health boom drives regenerative medicine and brings robotics and artificial intelligence to hospitals

2021-05-31T15:08:01+02:00April 7th, 2021|E-Health, Press Notes, Health|

Digital health has seen “an exponential increase over the last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this has opened the door to highly innovative projects which are setting the trend in health technologies for the coming years”, says Felip Miralles, director of Digital Health at the Eurecat technology centre. He points out that “regenerative [...]

Covid-19 ramps up demand for touchless products and systems

2021-05-31T14:58:51+02:00March 31st, 2021|covid19, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

Covid-19 will foster a new mobility which will drive the implementation of emerging technologies such as touchless push-buttons. The Eurecat technology centre believes these solutions will be in high demand in areas such as public transport, leisure facilities, lifts and workspaces in response to the new patterns of behaviour brought about by the coronavirus. Eurecat [...]

SmartLabels project heads towards smart labels in the wine industry

2022-07-25T16:54:14+02:00March 29th, 2021|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has taken part in the SmartLabels project which over the last year has explored the feasibility of using new printing technologies in self-adhesive labels for wine bottles such as NFC antennas, invisible ink and unique two-dimensional barcodes. The idea is to closely track the product right across the production and distribution process while preventing counterfeiting and [...]

Circular economy may cut greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent

2022-07-25T16:55:53+02:00March 26th, 2021|Press Notes, Sustainability|

Rolling out circular economy principles could well cut production and usage emissions by 45 percent says the Eurecat technology centre. This makes them into a key strategy for mitigating climate change alongside cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power generation. The agri-food and chemical industries, transport, construction and equipment manufacturing are some of the most promising sectors in [...]

Eurecat is at leading European printed electronics trade fair

2022-07-25T16:57:20+02:00March 25th, 2021|Fires, Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the LOPEC fair, the premier European event in printed electronics which this year is being held online together with the SmartEEs2 Technology Acceleration Hub, which seeks to make SMEs more competitive by baking in flexible, portable electronics. “The Eurecat technology centre’s knowhow in printed electronics means we can increasingly bring this technology [...]

Developing solutions for smart and sustainable water use

2022-07-25T16:59:56+02:00March 22nd, 2021|Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is partnering the European B-WaterSmart project to develop and demonstrate smart technologies and large-scale circular economy approaches for better water use. The project is designed to fast-track the transition to smart water economies and societies across coastal Europe by reducing freshwater abstraction, improving resource recovery and reuse, and increasing water use efficiency. It taps a large-scale systemic innovation [...]

Six cutting-edge projects invest €12 million to drive the circular economy and smart water management in Catalonia

2021-06-02T15:29:50+02:00March 22nd, 2021|Press Notes, Sustainability|

Over 55 businesses, technology and research centres, universities and associations have conducted six research and innovation projects in water management as part of the RIS3CAT Water Community, accredited by Catalan Government business competitiveness agency ACCIÓ. They have involved investment coming to €12 million over four years to promote the circular economy in water treatment, monitoring [...]

Robotnik and Eurecat develop a collaborative robot for autonomous outdoor material transport in industry and construction

2022-07-25T17:02:34+02:00March 16th, 2021|Autonomous and professional robotics, Press Notes|

Robotnik and the Eurecat technology centre have developed an extremely modular, autonomous and collaborative land robot intended for autonomous material transport in industry and construction with a design which delivers advanced human-robot collaboration. Devised as part of the European COBOLLEAGUE project, the robot addresses autonomous navigation in outdoor industrial settings characterised by uneven terrain and a variety of static and dynamic obstacles. It is a [...]

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