Covid-19 has fast tracked digitalisation in the tourism industry and will be one of the main factors driving the upturn along with new technologies which will make visits safer, provide more information about travellers to better understand changes in demand behaviour and enhance sustainability. These are the main conclusions of the TurisTIC Forum held today [...]
The Catalan firm 8wires and the Eurecat technology centre have been chosen to take part in a European project designed to improve the preparation of patients over the age of 65 before undergoing surgery. The firm and the technology centre have each been allocated €1.2 million to develop in conjunction with medical staff two apps [...]
The 5th XPatient Barcelona Congress has endorsed a cultural shift in the care model encompassing the entire healthcare ecosystem to empower patients and caregivers and enhance their experience against the backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis. Organised by the Eurecat technology centre, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the TIC Salut Social Foundation with the support of [...]
Over the next three years the TecnomiFood Network consortium is to spend nearly €4 million on a coordinated strategy to optimise the industrial development of foods, functional ingredients and nutraceuticals using omic technologies, which encompass research areas with enormous potential in personalised nutrition. The TecnomiFood Network is an accredited Cervera Centre of Excellence and led [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European Sea4Value project which is to develop a new process for recovering high-value metals and minerals from effluent generated by seawater desalination plants. The idea is to turn them into a source of raw materials in line with the circular economy. The almost 16,000 desalination plants operating worldwide [...]
The ERKSens project promoted by Renalyse, a Rovira i Virgili University (URV) spinoff, together with the Eurecat technology centre and the URV has received €1.3 million from the RETOS programme to bring a device for diagnosing and monitoring haemoglobin and potassium to the market in four years. The funding is part grant and part soft [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the 6MWT+ project which has developed a new system to enhance monitoring of the evolution of chronic neuromuscular diseases. It does this by integrating biomechanical sensors into the 6 Minute Walk Test, one of the standard functional tests used in hospitals for assessing and measuring these diseases. The new [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the SPARTA collaborative community which is to devise and implement cooperative research and innovation actions to enhance European cybersecurity in areas such as health, energy, finance, transport and industry. The SPARTA project’s main goals are to drive key innovation in this field, provide the resources needed to [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European LIFE REWATCH project which is demonstrating on a pilot scale a new system for treating wastewater from the petrochemical industry in one of DOW Chemical Ibérica’s production plants in Tarragona. The system makes it possible to obtain high-quality reclaimed water which can be reused in the same [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is a partner in a Catalan consortium led by the Guttmann Institute which has brought new technologies such as artificial intelligence, interactive digital video and neuromodulation into rehabilitation treatments and cognitive stimulation for patients with brain damage. The project comes under the RIS3CAT Nexthealth Community sponsored by ACCIÓ, the agency for [...]
