Digital health has grown exponentially over the last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of medical visits and nursing care. It has shown to be effective in aspects such as clinical process modelling, fostering prevention, monitoring and decision support. This will be one of the aspects to be discussed at the ‘Covid-19: what we’ve learned [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the ‘Caring for what unites us. Safer and more sustainable roads’ Territorial Specialisation and Competitiveness Project (PECT in its Catalan acronym) which is to roll out innovative solutions for using road building and maintenance materials and signage to enhance road safety and regional sustainability while unlocking fresh business opportunities. The [...]
RMIT University is partnering with Catalonia’s leading research centre to support technology transfer and innovation for industry in Europe. The memorandum of understanding with Eurecat – the Technology Centre of Catalonia – signals RMIT’s strong commitment to Barcelona and serves as an alignment of like-minded organisations for cooperation across research, doctoral student training and industry engagement. [...]
Food group Splendid Foods, whose core business is making cured cold cuts, has partnered the Eurecat technology centre on a project which taps artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics for better cold cut curing. The Embot-ITs project “has designed and deployed a monitoring system equipped with IoT devices which gathers data from the curing procedure for processing [...]
Young entrepreneur Josep Bergadà has released the first pre-production version of PocketPiano, a professional pocket piano that allows you to play music anywhere and is now coming onto the market after four years of development in partnership with the Eurecat technology centre. Josep Bergadà has teamed up with Jorquera Pianos, a firm which has been in [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the ‘PECT Mataró-Maresme: innovation ecosystem for caregiving towns and cities’ Territorial Competitiveness and Specialisation Project. It is to be led by Mataró Town Council and run in conjunction with the Maresme Healthcare Consortium, the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, the Sant Jaume i Santa Magdalena Hospital Foundation and the Maresme Foundation [...]
Pere Relats, chair of amec, and Xavier Torra, chair of Eurecat, have inked a partnership agreement to jointly support industrial companies’ innovation and transformation, a key factor in the new competitiveness. The community of internationalised industrial companies and the tech centre are now working to make it easier for businesses to put in place new innovation and [...]
Technology centre Eurecat is coordinating the European Möbius project, which will commit €5.5 million to revamping and driving the publishing industry by co-designing new interactive formats and business models in conjunction with industry businesses and professionals, artists, writers and readers from Spain and all over Europe. Möbius has 11 partners from four European countries, including [...]
The Eurecat technology centre was at the Hannover Messe 2021 digital trade fair, a world showcase for Industry 4.0 and new industrial technologies, where it unveiled state-of-the art innovations including plastronics applications in advanced manufacturing and a new ISF (Incremental Sheet Forming) device for prototyping and manufacturing one-of-a-kind sheet metal parts or short production runs in complex shapes. The main purpose of the [...]
The Roy Wolfe Award 2021, presented by the American Association of Geographers’ Recreation, Tourism & Sport Specialty Group, has gone to Salvador Anton Clavé, professor of Regional Geographic Analysis at Rovira i Virgili University and currently director of the Eurecat technology centre’s Vila-seca-based Tourism Innovation Department, for his outstanding academic contributions in tourism geography. Until 2019, [...]
