The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the CARBODIN (Car Body Shells, Doors and Interiors) project which is to support building lighter and more energy-sustainable passenger trains by developing innovative modular tooling for manufacturing car bodies and carriage shells using composite materials. As part of the project “innovative and versatile moulds and tooling are to be designed and [...]
The Eurecat technology centre is coordinating the Salema project which draws on a circular economy model using waste and scrap as an alternative source of critical raw materials while also replacing them with aluminium alloy components for electric vehicles. The project is to run four industrial pilot schemes to validate new aluminium alloys with five demonstrations of [...]
Until June, Montjuïc Castle is hosting “Montjuïc. The Amusement Park”, a participatory exhibition organised by Barcelona City Council’s Institute of Culture (ICUB) and directed and coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre and ALS. It welcomes visitors looking to learn about the amusement park which stood on part of the mountain from 1966 to 1998. The [...]
Over 60 international speakers took part this week in the final conference of the DIAMOND and TInnGO projects, held online in conjunction with the 10th International Travel Demand Management Symposium. It was attended by over 150 people from academia, the industry, project members and associations and platforms advocating gender equality and inclusion, and policymakers from all over the [...]
L The first session of the tourism workshop ‘How to undertake visitor flow management initiatives to enhance the tourist experience’ unpacked the guidelines for sustainable tourism flow management and leisure-related mobility systems at tourist destinations for the Costa Daurada’s tourism practitioners, managers and businesses. The issues discussed in the session led by Xavier Cazorla, an [...]
The Eurecat technology centre has developed thermoplastic composite window frames for regional aircraft using advanced industrial manufacturing processes to reduce part weight and production costs. The innovation comes under the WINFRAME 4.0 project which “has enabled us to draw on thermoplastic composites for building regional aircraft and also develop faster and more reliable processes by using carbon [...]
The Eurecat technology centre, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and The Collider, the innovation programme of Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCapital), have set up Ephion Health. The company will market the first digital platform using artificial intelligence to monitor the progress of patients with diseases and conditions that impinge on their mobility, estimated to account for at least [...]
The Eurecat technology centre’s Reus site has called for volunteers to help evaluate the effect of daily intake of a non-alcoholic extract from the wine industry on the change in blood pressure values in people with high blood pressure and grade 1 hypertension. The study, which consists of five face-to-face visits during which participants’ blood pressure, [...]
FACSA, a Grupo Gimeno company specialising in water cycle management, and the Eurecat technology centre are continuing to innovate in developing digital solutions which enable epidemiological analysis and monitoring through wastewater. FACSA has recently taken a further step forward in its TRACKER project, an environmental monitoring platform to combat Covid-19 which is evolving into predictive mode as [...]
Resuming tourism business operations in the new scenarios which have unfolded since 2020 calls for taking a close look at tourist mobility. This was the topic at Tuesday’s ‘Optimal visitor management’, conference organised by the Tourism Innovation and Intelligence Laboratory in Eurecat’s Tourism Innovation Department and Tarragona Provincial Council’s Tourist Board on the Costa Daurada and in [...]
