The Altour project led by Gerard Garcia Anglès, Eric Moreno Edo, Gina Stolwijk and Miquel Orozco Gavaldà has scooped first prize in the Barcelona final of the Miro In Cube tourism innovation competition. Their winning entry is a tourism gamification app in which businesses can showcase their events for active and sustainable tourism and thus raise the [...]
At this year’s Mobile World Congress, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing a new system for identifying nodules which are indicators of potential lung cancer using a tool powered by artificial intelligence techniques and deep learning in particular. The project has been conducted with the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus and has been supported by CIDAI (Centre of Innovation for [...]
Cafès Cornellà has innovated with the Eurecat technology centre to push its digitalisation process forward. It includes technologies such as the Internet of Things, advanced data analytics and machine learning to track manufacturing processes and the stages in the hospitality industry right up to the final cup of coffee. Cafès Cornellà’s digital conversion process is part of the company’s ‘Decoding Coffee’ digitalisation [...]
Robinhat and the Eurecat technology centre have together devised a surgical cap for doctors and surgeons which enables live connections and recording operations so that the videos can be analysed afterwards. Its prototype will be on show for the first time at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Called RobinCam, it is a patented cap featuring [...]
“Mobile Week Rupit has shown the potential of new technology in rural settings in which digital, industrial and biotechnological innovation hybridisation” can have a “disruptive effect in terms of competitiveness and sustainability,” commented Miquel Rey, Corporate Director of Business Development at the Eurecat technology centre. Miquel Rey spoke at Mobile Week Rupit about “how new technologies are [...]
CETT, the leading higher education school in Tourism, Hospitality and Gastronomy and affiliated to the University of Barcelona, and the Eurecat technology centre are teaming up to drive innovation in higher education in the shape of programmes involving digital and technological development of tourism, hospitality and gastronomy by transferring both institutions’ skills and knowhow. The partnership will make [...]
Digitalisation and sustainability will be crucial to the post-pandemic upturn in the tourism industry. This was the conclusion at the TurisTIC Forum congress hosted by the Eurecat technology centre which was held today at the Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site in Barcelona and also online. They will have to be accompanied by rolling out disruptive solutions harnessing technologies including artificial [...]
The consortium of sponsors today unveiled the Climate Resilience Centre (CRC), an undertaking with an international reach driven by Eurecat, the Technology Centre of Catalonia, together with Amposta Town Council and Rovira i Virgili University in partnership with other stakeholders and organisations. Its purpose is to step up the battle against the climate emergency and secure a [...]
The Catalonia Energy Research Institute (IREC) and the Eurecat technology centre have set up Battech, a flagship centre designed to cover the whole of Southern Europe’s battery ecosystem R&D&I. It will encompass research, development and innovation across the entire value chain of the next generation of electric cells and batteries for the electric mobility, renewable [...]
Kivnon, a firm specialising in developing innovative mobile robotics, is to embed Eurecat autonomous mobility technology in some of its fleets. This technology is designed to make factories more flexible and smarter to adapt to changes in production processes characteristic of advanced industrial environments. The new solution involves building new sensors into Kivnon’s mobile robots consisting of [...]
