Press Notes

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 [...]

Artificial intelligence poised to bring forward solutions to health, energy and water management challenges

2023-05-18T14:21:04+02:00October 26th, 2022|Big Data, ICT, Press Notes|

Artificial intelligence applications are extremely wide-ranging and run from personalised medicine and managing an epidemic such as Covid-19 to solutions for cutting energy costs or streamlining water resource management. This is because they can generate consistent conclusions by tapping a wide variety of data sources, as was showcased today at the AI & Big [...]

Textile and fashion value chain invests in a sustainability, digitalisation and growth strategy

2023-05-18T14:22:12+02:00October 21st, 2022|Functional fabrics, Press Notes, Textile|

The TecnoCampus Congress Centre hosted the ‘Digital and sustainable transition of the textile and fashion value chain in Catalonia’ innovation conference attended by some 150 delegates from businesses, industry associations and governments. The presentations underscored the textile and fashion value chain’s eagerness to address sustainability as an opportunity for growth and setting up new [...]

New system enabling human-robot collaboration in industry rolled out

2023-05-18T14:24:07+02:00October 19th, 2022|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Metallic and Ceramic Materials, Press Notes|

Barcelona has today hosted the closing event in the European Sharework project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, which has rolled out a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industrial manufacturing processes by tapping artificial intelligence and process data analysis. The project has developed flexible software made up [...]

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