The Eurecat technology centre has built a digital platform to help train healthcare professionals which has 19 modules and three specialised courses to foster the use of innovative tech in key healthcare areas by blending social, technical and digital skills. These training modules have been developed as part of the European e-Hospital4Future (eH4F) project [...]
The Catalonian Fruit Business Association (Afrucat) and the Eurecat technology centre have concluded a strategic partnership to fast-track developing cutting-edge tech solutions which address the main challenges facing the fruit industry. The agreement also encompasses bringing new tech capabilities to businesses in this sector and specific training and talent development initiatives to bolster professional [...]
The Government of Catalonia through the Secretariat for Digital Policies in the Ministry of Business and Labour, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (AMB) and the Eurecat technology centre today presented the results of a proof of concept for an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which analyses and forecasts demand for the Aerobús and matches the fleet [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the DonaIndústria 4.0 Digital and Female Transformation entrepreneurship programme, which kicked off this July with the goal of boosting the digitalisation of Catalan manufacturing through the talent of ten women entrepreneurs with a tech background who will pursue a training pathway in advanced technology and personalised [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has developed a new automated system for dismantling and sorting electric vehicle battery components using collaborative robotics and artificial intelligence systems to simplify recycling at the end of their useful life with a view to cutting processing costs and times, ensuring worker safety and achieving utmost efficiency and sustainability. The [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is developing several technologies to drive innovation in food, such as a new automated digester which will enable the food industry to analyse the digestibility and nutritional quality of new protein sources. The digester simulates the human digestive system and allows in vitro laboratory testing of the digestibility and protein [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European Shift2Zero project which is investing its over €12 million budget to develop innovative new designs and functionalities for commercial e-vehicles to meet urban logistics needs, cut emissions and improve operational efficiency. The project brings together leading players from across the logistics and automotive value chain “to [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the European FlexCrash project which has developed an online platform for simulating mixed traffic scenarios with autonomous and human-driven vehicles in real time to help identify critical situations and improve road safety. The FlexCrash platform enables interaction between human drivers and autonomous vehicles in realistic simulations and provides [...]
Aniol Bosch, a researcher at the Eurecat technology centre and PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Girona (UdG), has been awarded one of three grants offered by the Daniel Bravo Andreu Private Foundation for short-term biomedical research stays at leading centres abroad. This will enable him to spend six months at [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has successfully tested new technologies to recover strategic raw materials including lithium, nickel and cobalt from various kinds of waste and by-products to help secure their supply, avert the environmental impact of their mining and support decarbonising by means of the circular economy. Critical raw materials (CRM) “are crucial to [...]
