Digital health has seen “an exponential increase over the last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this has opened the door to highly innovative projects which are setting the trend in health technologies for the coming years”, says Felip Miralles, director of Digital Health at the Eurecat technology centre. He points out that “regenerative [...]
Covid-19 will foster a new mobility which will drive the implementation of emerging technologies such as touchless push-buttons. The Eurecat technology centre believes these solutions will be in high demand in areas such as public transport, leisure facilities, lifts and workspaces in response to the new patterns of behaviour brought about by the coronavirus. Eurecat [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has taken part in the SmartLabels project which over the last year has explored the feasibility of using new printing technologies in self-adhesive labels for wine bottles such as NFC antennas, invisible ink and unique two-dimensional barcodes. The idea is to closely track the product right across the production and distribution process while preventing counterfeiting and [...]
Rolling out circular economy principles could well cut production and usage emissions by 45 percent says the Eurecat technology centre. This makes them into a key strategy for mitigating climate change alongside cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power generation. The agri-food and chemical industries, transport, construction and equipment manufacturing are some of the most promising sectors in [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the LOPEC fair, the premier European event in printed electronics which this year is being held online together with the SmartEEs2 Technology Acceleration Hub, which seeks to make SMEs more competitive by baking in flexible, portable electronics. “The Eurecat technology centre’s knowhow in printed electronics means we can increasingly bring this technology [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about new hybrid contexts in which digital competencies “are the key to unlocking present and future opportunities.” This is because without these skills “there is a whole raft of professional, personal, employment, association and many other types of opportunities which cannot be seized” and so “it’s not only a gap but will also [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is partnering the European B-WaterSmart project to develop and demonstrate smart technologies and large-scale circular economy approaches for better water use. The project is designed to fast-track the transition to smart water economies and societies across coastal Europe by reducing freshwater abstraction, improving resource recovery and reuse, and increasing water use efficiency. It taps a large-scale systemic innovation [...]
Over 55 businesses, technology and research centres, universities and associations have conducted six research and innovation projects in water management as part of the RIS3CAT Water Community, accredited by Catalan Government business competitiveness agency ACCIÓ. They have involved investment coming to €12 million over four years to promote the circular economy in water treatment, monitoring [...]
The Tourism Data System MICE, a new digital platform for gathering data about meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (MICE) tourism in Catalonia, has been set up by the Catalan Tourist Board’s Catalonia Convention Bureau in partnership with local and regional convention bureaux across the region. It will make it possible to track event tourism business [...]
Robotnik and the Eurecat technology centre have developed an extremely modular, autonomous and collaborative land robot intended for autonomous material transport in industry and construction with a design which delivers advanced human-robot collaboration. Devised as part of the European COBOLLEAGUE project, the robot addresses autonomous navigation in outdoor industrial settings characterised by uneven terrain and a variety of static and dynamic obstacles. It is a [...]
