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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
