Press Notes

Artificial intelligence, the metaverse, new energy sources, the circular economy and precision nutrition to be key tech trends in 2023

2023-05-18T13:56:41+02:00December 22nd, 2022|Press Notes|

Artificial intelligence and all the technologies brought by the metaverse will set the digital tone in 2023, a year in which major breakthroughs are expected in carbon capture and batteries. That’s the view of the Eurecat Science Department team which also foresees progress in exploring new protein sources and precision nutrition along with recovering [...]

Eurecat joins Smart Tourist Destinations Network to step up digital and sustainable transformation of tourist destinations

2023-05-18T13:58:49+02:00December 20th, 2022|Press Notes, Sustainability, Tourism|

The Eurecat technology centre has become an institutional member of the Smart Tourist Destinations Network to support and bring its knowledge and technological and digital capabilities to tourism innovation to make it more competitive and sustainable. Drawing on over 20 years of experience, Eurecat powers the innovation and sustainability of businesses and destinations in the tourism [...]

Eurecat trials generating more sustainable smart plastics with new features

2023-05-18T14:00:31+02:00December 15th, 2022|Functional Printing, Plastic material, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has tested integrating electronics and plastic materials to craft new, more sustainable products with high added value, low weight, built-in sensors and advanced features in a plant set up at its Cerdanyola site which manufactures these parts using a cutting-edge technology known as plastronics. “This innovation is much in demand and extremely [...]

Social organisation Solidança teams up with Eurecat to devise a container for collecting clothing to enhance textile waste circularity

2023-05-18T14:01:56+02:00December 7th, 2022|Functional fabrics, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Solidança, a social organisation engaged in the social and solidarity economy and with extensive experience in gathering and recovering textile waste under the Roba Amiga brand, has teamed up with the Eurecat technology centre using Catalan Waste Agency grants promoting the circular economy to eco-design a container for collecting post-consumer clothing made from the textile waste [...]

New smart mobility solutions to unlock connected and shared transport

2022-12-01T10:12:22+01:00December 1st, 2022|Big Data, Fires, Press Notes, Railway|

The Eurecat technology centre is presenting new smart mobility solutions which embed real-time information about railways, public transport services, ridesharing and crowdsourcing in technology systems to compare and choose between options and unlock connected and shared public transport. The tools and platforms on show at Rail Live, which is taking place in Malaga, are part [...]

Eurecat technology centre sets up Eurecat Latam Foundation to drive technological innovation in Latin America

2023-05-18T14:03:47+02:00November 17th, 2022|Corporatiu, Internacional, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre today announced the launch of the Eurecat Latam Foundation to drive technological innovation in Latin America’s economic and business community with a special focus on Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile in the Pacific Alliance along with El Salvador and other countries. Eurecat’s chair Xavier Torra announced the launch of the Eurecat Latam [...]

Xavier López, deputy chair of the Spanish Federation of Technology Centres

2023-05-18T14:05:24+02:00November 17th, 2022|Corporatiu, Internacional, Press Notes|

Xavier López, Eurecat’s Chief Operating and Corporate Officer, has been re-elected as deputy chair of the Spanish Federation of Technology Centres (FEDIT) as part of the new Governing Council of the organisation whose new chair is Laura Olcina from ITI. “FEDIT is embarking on a new stage after leading technology centres in a number [...]

More sustainable, efficient, innovative and attractively designed buildings with new hybrid fabrics

2023-05-18T14:06:58+02:00November 15th, 2022|Construction, Innovation and product development, Press Notes, Simulation|

Denvelops and the Eurecat technology centre have devised an architectural hybrid textile prototype which adds new energy and lighting features to building fronts while also delivering greater efficiency, sustainability, innovation, adaptability and design. The purpose of the project was to show that these types of solutions and functions tapping the new hybrid texTILES construction system [...]

BATTECH raises over €4 million to develop batteries and recycle materials for electric vehicles

2022-12-14T15:42:19+01:00November 14th, 2022|Press Notes, Sustainability|

BATTECH, the leading battery R&D and innovation centre in southern Europe, has kicked off four strategic European projects this quarter worth more than €4 million. They are designed to unlock sustainability and the circularity of materials in the electric mobility value chain by improving the recovery of lithium-ion battery materials and developing new composites [...]

AI & Big Data Congress targets collaboration between artificial intelligence and people

2023-05-18T14:19:38+02:00October 28th, 2022|Big Data, ICT, Press Notes|

Speaking on day two of the AI & Big Data Congress, David Malkin, Cogent Labs’ product management director, argued that businesses need to include people in the data validation process for machine learning and artificial intelligence models through “an interaction interface between humans and the AI system which enables them to validate data and [...]

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