The Eurecat technology centre, Tarragona Provincial Council and its Tourist Board today unveiled the Tourism Data System 2+ family tourism indicators platform developed as part of the TDS2+ operation in the PECT TurisTIC in Family Project. It furnishes tourist destinations on the Costa Daurada and in Terres de l’Ebre and their stakeholders with an integrated and [...]
Battech, the leading battery R&D centre in southern Europe, has examined the reliability and useful life of the lithium-ion batteries which building firm the RUBI GROUP has chosen to fit in a new line of work tools to check they can safely operate as standalone devices. This comes in response to market trends which are [...]
Xavier López, Eurecat’s Chief Operating and Corporate Officer, recently spoke at Futuribles, the technological innovation project hosted by Prensa Ibérica and El Periódico de Catalunya and held in Barcelona to unpack the state of technological innovation. It also featured the ministers of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Raquel Sánchez, and Education and Vocational Training, María [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has won the Iberquimia Award in the Innovation category for its work in R&D applied to industry at a ceremony held at the Barcelona edition of the congress. Ricard Garcia Valls, director of Eurecat’s Chemical Technology unit, picked up the award. He said that this acknowledgement “draws attention to Eurecat’s efforts to help [...]
The RIS3CAT Media Community, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, has held its second general meeting to share progress in the projects they are undertaking to drive and bring about change in the cultural and creative industries and also position Catalonia as an international showpiece. The RIS3CAT Media Community brings together 34 companies and R&D players and [...]
This Wednesday, the Centre of Excellence in Tourism Innovation (CoE in Tourism Innovation) held the inaugural meeting of its Academic Council made up of key university institutions in Catalonia specialising in tourism training and research across a range of fields. At the meeting, the Academic Council was briefed on the projects currently being run by the [...]
The Metalworking Employers’ Association (UPM) and Eurecat are all set to work together to make the organisation’s member companies more competitive through R&D, specialised technology training and technology services. This partnership will give UPM affiliates access to Eurecat’s technologies, tools, dedicated training and technology support services to address the industry’s new challenges such as digitalisation, [...]
Researchers at the Eurecat technology centre, the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) and the University of Barcelona (UB) have developed an automated system that taps into deep learning technology to detect lesions caused by Covid-19 by reading computed tomography (CT) chest images. The study, conducted by researchers Giuseppe Pezzano, Vicent Ribas, Petia Radeva and Oliver Díaz, [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the CARBODIN (Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors) project which is to support building lighter and more energy-sustainable passenger trains by developing innovative modular tooling for manufacturing car bodies and carriage shells using composite materials. As part of the project “innovative and versatile moulds and tooling are to be designed and [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the Salema project which draws on a circular economy model using waste and scrap as an alternative source of critical raw materials while also replacing them with aluminium alloy components for electric vehicles. The project is to run four industrial pilot schemes to validate new aluminium alloys with five demonstrations of [...]
