Press Notes

A European project seeks to roll out solutions to increase the Catalan coast’s ability to adapt to climate change

2022-10-17T15:12:13+02:00May 12th, 2022|Press Notes, Smart Management Systems, Sustainability|

The European IMPETUS project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has launched a public survey open to companies, local entities, industry, organisations and the public to have them take part in proposing and evaluating effective solutions to increase the Catalan coast’s ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This survey provides the chance [...]

New machine learning agent will address conflicts and facilitate interaction in extended reality environments such as the metaverse

2022-10-17T15:13:17+02:00May 11th, 2022|Audiovisual Technologies, Cultural and Creative Industries, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is leading the European GuestXR project, which will develop a machine learning agent designed to facilitate the interactions between participants in virtual and augmented reality environments such as the metaverse, and help them achieve their objectives, while also making it possible to address conflict situations. For this purpose, a machine learning system [...]

Digitalisation speeds up the transformation of the tourism sector from the perspective of tourists, companies and destinations

2022-10-17T15:14:43+02:00May 10th, 2022|Events, Innovació turística, Press Notes, Tourism|

Today, Forum TurisTIC highlighted the sector’s ability to generate value by making the most of digitalisation and stressed that the acceleration of transformation that this entails, from the perspective of tourists, companies and destinations, becomes key for moving forward towards the new post-pandemic tourism, on a horizon where it is anticipated that the digital economy [...]

The 2022 Catalunya Ràdio Revolució 4.0 awards recognise Eurecat’s track record

2022-10-17T15:15:47+02:00May 6th, 2022|Corporatiu, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre has been recognised with the Track Record Revolució 4.0 Award in the fourth edition of Radio Catalunya’s Revolució 4.0 Entrepreneurship Awards. The awards ceremony will be broadcast on Catalunya Ràdio next Sunday, 8 May, at 10 pm, the usual broadcast time of the Revolució 4.0 programme directed and presented by Xantal [...]

Eurecat tests manufacturing with Compositrònica, a cutting-edge technology that reduces the weight of electronic elements and makes industrial assembly cheaper

2022-10-17T15:17:01+02:00May 3rd, 2022|Composite material, Fires, Press Notes|

Starting today, the Eurecat technology centre is exhibiting at JEC World, the leading event in the composite field, held in Paris, where it will present its trials in manufacturing with Compositrònica for the development of functional composite materials by combining various manufacturing procedures, flexible printed electronics and the insertion of components, which bring new benefits in [...]

A new technology system applies precision nutrition to generate personalised diet and life habit tips based on biomarkers

2022-10-17T15:17:56+02:00April 29th, 2022|Food, Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The PREVENTOMICS project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre has developed a system for personalised nutritional and healthy life habit recommendations based on biomarkers, eating habits and physical and behavioural characteristics of the users to generate made-to-measure plans. This innovative platform would allow integration with technological applications that need to apply precision nutrition to any [...]

Technology for removing petroleum hydrocarbons from contaminated soil under study

2022-10-17T15:18:48+02:00April 28th, 2022|Aigua aire sols, Press Notes, Sustainability|

The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European LIFE MySOIL project to test on a pilot scale the feasibility of mycoremediation using fungal inocula to remove petroleum hydrocarbons from soil, a kind of substance estimated to be present, on average, in 35 per cent of contaminated sites in Europe. The MySOIL project, which is partly funded by [...]

A smart system will make it possible to collaborate safely and ergonomically in tasks with robots

2022-10-17T15:19:46+02:00April 28th, 2022|Autonomous and professional robotics, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is leading the Sharework robotics project, which has developed a new smart system for safe and ergonomic collaboration between robots and workers in industrial manufacturing processes, through artificial intelligence and analysing process data. The project has developed flexible software made up of 14 technological modules ‘to furnish robots with the intelligence required to [...]

The Omic Sciences Centre renews its membership with the Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures

2022-10-17T15:20:40+02:00April 25th, 2022|Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Omic Sciences Centre (Centre de Ciències Òmiques – COS), managed by the Eurecat technology centre and Rovira i Virgili University, has renewed its membership in the National Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (Infraestructures Científiques i Tècniques Singulars – ICTS) for 2021-2024. The COS is a scientific infrastructure equipped with state-of-the-art tools and technologies [...]

Universities and research and technology centres support the proposal for Catalonia to accommodate the semiconductor and microchip industry

2022-10-17T15:25:00+02:00April 22nd, 2022|Corporatiu, Press Notes|

The University of Barcelona, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the University of Girona, Rovira i Virgili University, the Spanish National Research Council’s (CSIC) Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) and the Eurecat technology centre are the entities that make up the FabCat initiative, which promotes Catalonia as the site of [...]

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