Every day we use water for cooking, showering, washing clothes, or cleaning our homes. These are everyday and essential actions, but we often forget that everything we pour down the drain doesn’t simply disappear. In this way, many substances end up entering the water cycle and, over time, can return to the environment through [...]
ACCIONA, acting as LIFE PRISTINE coordinator, participated in the first InterLIFE event held in Spain, organised by the National Contact Points (NCPs) and the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge. The event brought together representatives from various LIFE projects to exchange experiences and discuss approaches to sustainability and the replication [...]
The NewAIMS consortium met on March 10th at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas (CENIM-CSIC) in Madrid to review technical milestones and finalize the roadmap for the project's final year. The meeting, held in a hybrid format, focused on transitioning the project’s latest metallurgical breakthroughs into industrial applications. Coordinated by Eurecat’s Metallic and Ceramic [...]
On 5 March, ACCIONA took part in the Tecnoaqua technical conference on water distribution and treatment, titled “Advanced management of emerging contaminants”. The event focused on the full chain of emerging contaminants (CECs), from detection and monitoring to advanced (quaternary) treatment solutions. Organised within the water sector knowledge platform Tecnoaqua, the session brough together [...]
Chaymaa Boujrouf, Postdoctoral researcher at Aix-Marseille University's IM2NP laboratory, delivered an oral presentation at the International Conference of Metallurgy (ICM 2026), hosted by Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) in Benguerir, Morocco, from 2 to 5 February 2026. Boujrouf's presentation, entitled "Nanoscale investigation of residual element segregation in steels produced through low-CO2 routes," introduced the [...]
On February 25th, the members of the Safe&Clean project, coordinated by Eurecat’s Metallic and Ceramic Materials Unit, met at the Istituto Italiano della Saldatura (IIS) in Genoa (Italy) to present and evaluate the progress made during the first six months of the project. The Safe&Clean project will analyse the influence of impurities present on [...]
Eurecat presented its latest progress in metallic materials at the technical workshop organized by CEAM (Center for Metallurgical Studies and Advice) on January 21st in Sant Just Desvern, Catalonia (Spain). The forum, a benchmark for industry experts, explored how innovation and new technologies drive a more competitive, sustainable metal sector. Representing Eurecat, Paula Félix [...]
The LIFE PRISTINE project has officially joined the ZeroPollution4Water (ZP4W) Cluster, reinforcing its contribution to European efforts aimed at preventing and reducing water pollution and safeguarding water resources. The project was presented during the ZeroPollution4Water Cluster annual event, held on 4 December in Brussels as a side event of Water Knowledge Europe 2025 – [...]
On December 9th, the Steel4Fatigue project was featured in the webinar “Advancing AM: Fatigue and Microstructure insights”, organised in collaboration with the European projects FatSAM and ALABAMA. The webinar brought together experts from research and industry to discuss the latest developments in additive manufacturing, fatigue behaviour, and microstructure optimisation. Sergi Parareda, project coordinator and [...]
On 4 December, the LIFE PRISTINE project took part of the ZeroPollution4Water (ZP4W) Cluster annual event, organised as a side event of the Water Knowledge Europe 2025 – Winter Edition in Brussels. Mireia Escalé, project coordinator from ACCIONA, attended the event and presented LIFE PRISTINE as a key European project focused on removing contaminants [...]
