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 [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus-based Biotechnology Division is calling for volunteers to take part in a new study with post-menopausal women to better shape future nutritional strategies and prevent associated symptoms and illnesses. The study is to examine a number of metabolic, hormonal and gut microbiota parameters in 200 post-menopausal women in order to identify by [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European Marbel project equipped with an €11,703,385 budget. It is developing an innovative and competitive lightweight battery with a longer useful life, improved efficiency, higher energy density and shorter charging times to fast-track mass market uptake of electric vehicles. Marbel is to design, develop and demonstrate a new compact, modular, [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is backing food innovation and design by taking part in World Food Design Day 2021, a 20-hour international online marathon run by the FORK organisation this Saturday, 16 October, to tie in with World Food Day. Design and creative solutions will take centre stage at this event which will share best practices, actions [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is leading the European MED4Youth project, the first nutritional intervention study to evaluate the effects of a Mediterranean diet-based dietary intervention against obesity in teenagers across several countries with a view to encouraging and helping this population segment to adopt healthy habits. As of 2016, the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that youth obesity has [...]
