The Minister President of Flanders Jan Jambon visited Eurecat today accompanied by a large group from the Flemish region’s digital ecosystem as part of his visit to the Smart City Expo trade fair in Barcelona. Xavier Torra, Eurecat’s Chair, welcomed the delegation to Eurecat’s head office in Barcelona which houses the centre’s technology units specialising in digitalisation. Their [...]
Climate change will further exacerbate poverty and lack of opportunities for women, who on average tend to be worse off in terms of poverty, education, health and restricted immediate access to and ownership of natural resources. This was made evident today on the second day of the international Cassandra conference hosted by the Eurecat technology centre [...]
The first day of the international Cassandra conference, hosted by the Eurecat technology centre, warned of rising migration and conflict in the Mediterranean due to climate change, which the World Bank says has turned water scarcity into a trigger for growing involuntary displacement and economic and social inequalities. In her talk, Esha Zaveri, senior economist [...]
The Eurecat technology centre, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and The Collider, the innovation programme of Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital), have set up Ephion Health. The company will market the first digital platform using artificial intelligence to monitor the progress of patients with diseases and conditions that impinge on their mobility, estimated to account for at least [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus site has called for volunteers to help evaluate the effect of daily intake of a non-alcoholic extract from the wine industry on the change in blood pressure values in people with high blood pressure and grade 1 hypertension. The study, which consists of five face-to-face visits during which participants’ blood pressure, [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in a European project to restore the coastline and adapt it to the effects of climate change. It is an action plan for the next four years funded by the European Union under European Green Deal policies and led by the UPC’s Maritime Engineering Laboratory (LIM). It includes [...]
FACSA, a Grupo Gimeno company specialising in water cycle management, and the Eurecat technology centre are continuing to innovate in developing digital solutions which enable epidemiological analysis and monitoring through wastewater. FACSA has recently taken a further step forward in its TRACKER project, an environmental monitoring platform to combat Covid-19 which is evolving into predictive mode as [...]
The road to electrification requires industrial transformation at all levels. For this to happen, innovation is key. In Martorell at SEAT’s Workshop 9, a drone flies above the production lines. It’s the testing phase of a pioneering new project between SEAT S.A. and the Eurecat technology centre to explore the possibility of using drones to [...]
The Catalan Technology Centre, Eurecat is to host the International Cassandra Conference, an initiative to discuss and provide scientific and technological answers to help make socio-political decisions in response to the direct impact of climate change on health, migration, conflicts and gender inequality in the Mediterranean. It is supported by UNESCO, the European Commission, the [...]
Resuming tourism business operations in the new scenarios which have unfolded since 2020 calls for taking a close look at tourist mobility. This was the topic at Tuesday’s ‘Optimal visitor management’, conference organised by the Tourism Innovation and Intelligence Laboratory in Eurecat’s Tourism Innovation Department and Tarragona Provincial Council’s Tourist Board on the Costa Daurada and in [...]
