Press Notes

Splendid Foods and Eurecat roll out system tapping artificial intelligence and big data for better cold cut curing

2022-07-25T16:40:46+02:00April 29th, 2021|Food, ICT, Press Notes, Smart Management Systems|

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 unveils professional pocket piano for playing music on the go

2022-07-25T16:41:56+02:00April 28th, 2021|Innovation and product development, Press Notes|

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 [...]

Eurecat involved in pioneering project in Mataró for innovation in active ageing and caregiving

2022-07-25T16:44:23+02:00April 27th, 2021|E-Health, Health, Press Notes|

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 [...]

amec and Eurecat team up to bring innovation projects in industry to fruition

2022-07-25T16:45:36+02:00April 26th, 2021|Corporatiu, Press Notes|

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 [...]

Research into new interactive formats and business models to give the book industry a shot in the arm

2021-06-02T16:21:19+02:00April 22nd, 2021|Audiovisual Technologies, Consulting, Press Notes|

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 [...]

Eurecat unveils cutting-edge technology innovations for industry 4.0 at the Hannover Messe digital trade fair

2022-07-25T16:46:59+02:00April 19th, 2021|Fires, Press Notes|

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 [...]

American Association of Geographers presents Roy Wolfe Award 2021 to Dr Salvador Anton Clavé

2022-07-25T16:48:05+02:00April 14th, 2021|Innovació turística, Press Notes, Tourism|

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, [...]

Volunteers sought to receive personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips using an app

2022-07-25T16:49:51+02:00April 14th, 2021|Nutrition and Health, Press Notes|

The Eurecat Reus technology centre has appealed for volunteers to help test a new app which will provide them with personalised nutrition and healthy lifestyle tips tailored to each person’s physical and behavioural traits and their preferences, physical condition and metabolism. This research is part of the European Preventomics (Empowering consumers to PREVENT diet-related diseases through OMICS sciences) project. It [...]

Experts to gather in Barcelona to discuss technology for tackling the post-pandemic tourism industry’s challenges

2022-07-25T16:51:03+02:00April 13th, 2021|Events, Innovació turística, Press Notes, Tourism|

The 9th TurisTIC Forum, the congress on the application of ICTs in tourism organised by the Eurecat technology centre, will bring together experts in Barcelona in June to address the challenges facing the industry in the post-Covid-19 scenario. Topics are to include destination management using artificial intelligence, digital nomads and emerging opportunities and also NextGeneration EU recovery funds for digital transformation [...]

Catalan Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency visits Eurecat Amposta

2022-07-25T16:52:36+02:00April 12th, 2021|Corporatiu, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Bernat Solé, the Catalan Government’s Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency, today visited Eurecat’s Amposta site. It is home to the centre’s Department of Climate Change which is laying the foundations for what will be a future centre of excellence in climate resilience. Eurecat’s Department of Climate Change is part of the technology centre’s Sustainability Division and targets [...]

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