The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the LOPEC fair, the premier European event in printed electronics which this year is being held online together with the SmartEEs2 Technology Acceleration Hub, which seeks to make SMEs more competitive by baking in flexible, portable electronics.
“The Eurecat technology centre’s knowhow in printed electronics means we can increasingly bring this technology to the market geared towards meeting businesses’ needs and challenges,” says Cristina Casellas, technology lead in Eurecat’s Functional Printing and Integrated Devices Unit.
As part of the SmartEEs2 project in which it is also involved, “Eurecat supports enterprises and develops prototypes to see whether technological solutions are viable before investing resources in them.”
The SmartEEs2 project will have five calls in total in 2020 and 2021 for businesses, SMEs and start-ups in the automotive, logistics, health, energy, packaging and other industries.
The first three SmartEEs2 calls have targeted projects which hardwire flexible and portable electronics into their products and services. They have also prioritised schemes which help curb the spread of Covid-19 together with solutions in fields such as prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
The SmartEEs2 project is the prolongation of the SmartEEs initiative and a Digital Innovation HUB (DIH) consisting of eight technology centres, three consultancies and three clusters from nine EU countries.
Eurecat to enter the Oe-a Competition 2021
At the LOPEC fair the Eurecat technology centre is entering the Oe-a Competition 2021 in the ‘Publicly Funded Project Demonstrator’ category with its Optogenerapy project which has developed the first biophotonic implant to administer therapeutic proteins to patients with multiple sclerosis. The winners will be announced this March and will showcase their solutions at an online ceremony on Thursday 15 April.
