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XPatient Barcelona Congress backs a cultural shift in the care model to enhance the patient experience

2021-03-09T09:53:39+01:00October 2nd, 2020|E-Health, Press Notes, Health|

The 5th XPatient Barcelona Congress has endorsed a cultural shift in the care model encompassing the entire healthcare ecosystem to empower patients and caregivers and enhance their experience against the backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis. Organised by the Eurecat technology centre, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the TIC Salut Social Foundation with the support of [...]

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TecnomiFood Network to invest €4 million in optimising the industrial development and innovation of functional foods and nutraceuticals using omic technologies

2021-01-28T15:55:14+01:00September 25th, 2020|Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes, Health|

Over the next three years the TecnomiFood Network consortium is to spend nearly €4 million on a coordinated strategy to optimise the industrial development of foods, functional ingredients and nutraceuticals using omic technologies, which encompass research areas with enormous potential in personalised nutrition. The TecnomiFood Network is an accredited Cervera Centre of Excellence and led [...]

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Metals and minerals from seawater desalination plants are recovered to be turned into raw materials

2020-12-07T15:11:21+01:00September 14th, 2020|Press Notes, Química, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European Sea4Value project which is to develop a new process for recovering high-value metals and minerals from effluent generated by seawater desalination plants. The idea is to turn them into a source of raw materials in line with the circular economy. The almost 16,000 desalination plants operating worldwide [...]

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New medical platform to diagnose problems in chronic patients

2021-03-09T09:31:43+01:00September 8th, 2020|Functional Printing, Press Notes|

The ERKSens project promoted by Renalyse, a Rovira i Virgili University (URV) spinoff, together with the Eurecat technology centre and the URV has received €1.3 million from the RETOS programme to bring a device for diagnosing and monitoring haemoglobin and potassium to the market in four years. The funding is part grant and part soft [...]

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New system is being developed to enhance neuromuscular disease monitoring using biomechanical sensors

2021-01-27T08:15:57+01:00September 4th, 2020|E-Health, Press Notes, Health|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the 6MWT+ project which has developed a new system to enhance monitoring of the evolution of chronic neuromuscular diseases. It does this by integrating biomechanical sensors into the 6 Minute Walk Test, one of the standard functional tests used in hospitals for assessing and measuring these diseases. The new [...]

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Eurecat takes part in a collaborative community to boost European cybersecurity

2020-12-07T14:58:08+01:00August 25th, 2020|IT-Security, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the SPARTA collaborative community which is to devise and implement cooperative research and innovation actions to enhance European cybersecurity in areas such as health, energy, finance, transport and industry. The SPARTA project’s main goals are to drive key innovation in this field, provide the resources needed to [...]

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Pilot project shows petrochemical industry wastewater can be reclaimed

2020-12-07T14:47:15+01:00July 31st, 2020|Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European LIFE REWATCH project which is demonstrating on a pilot scale a new system for treating wastewater from the petrochemical industry in one of DOW Chemical Ibérica’s production plants in Tarragona. The system makes it possible to obtain high-quality reclaimed water which can be reused in the same [...]

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Catalan consortium allocates €1.16 million to bringing artificial intelligence, 360º interactive video and EEG into neuropsychological rehabilitation

2020-12-07T14:39:57+01:00July 27th, 2020|E-Health, Press Notes, Health|

The Eurecat technology centre is a partner in a Catalan consortium led by the Guttmann Institute which has brought new technologies such as artificial intelligence, interactive digital video and neuromodulation into rehabilitation treatments and cognitive stimulation for patients with brain damage. The project comes under the RIS3CAT Nexthealth Community sponsored by ACCIÓ, the agency for [...]

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SEAT runs university-level Industry 4.0 training for its employees in partnership with the Eurecat Academy and IL3

2020-12-07T13:11:38+01:00July 24th, 2020|Automotive, Press Notes, Training|

Carmaker SEAT has kicked off its Industry 4.0 Academy training programme in partnership with the Eurecat technology centre’s Eurecat Academy specialist training service for professionals and the University of Barcelona’s IL3 Institute for Lifelong Learning. This is a pilot smart factory education project for production line workers designed to equip them with the skills they [...]

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Pilot test begins to identify nodules indicating potential lung cancer in X-rays using deep learning technology

2020-10-19T08:23:55+02:00July 23rd, 2020|E-Health, Press Notes, Health|

Researchers from the Parc Taulí Research and Innovation Institute (I3PT) and the Eurecat technology centre are to begin a three-month pilot test to identify nodules which may be indicators of potential lung cancer on X-rays using deep learning technology. The initiative is part of the LuCaDAlert (Lung Cancer CAD Alert) project which has developed algorithms that can detect lung cancer nodules in chest [...]

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