Eurecat’s Board of Trustees has signed off on its new Strategic Plan for the next three years and which kicks off a new stage for the technology centre geared towards unlocking transformational technologies to tackle today’s business and social challenges. The start of the new strategic period coincides with Eurecat’s tenth anniversary, a symbolic milestone the centre is seeking to leverage to refresh and enhance its commitment as a key technology player in the country and a driving force behind innovations which enhance productivity, business competitiveness and people’s wellbeing.
“In today’s world, the competitiveness of territories is closely tied to innovation while in turn innovation has to be committed to social wellbeing and prosperity,” says Xavier López, Eurecat’s Chief Operating and Corporate Officer. Bearing in mind major global challenges including the demographic and climate crisis, the geostrategic dimension of technologies, access to resources and social inequalities, “in its new Strategic Plan Eurecat is rethinking how it can best support businesses, the economy, government and, in short, society and the planet to build a thriving future for all.”
The new Strategic Plan sets out technology missions aligned with four global challenges which call for long-term transformational technology solutions: lifelong health and wellbeing, industrial self-sufficiency and technological sovereignty, environmental quality and climate resilience, and the new digital era.
“The complexity, persistence, reach and impact of these challenges call for creative, multidisciplinary, systemic and technological convergence approaches,” argues López.
“Eurecat is a multidisciplinary centre and over the last 10 years we have learned to generate standout technological value through partnerships and joint efforts between in-house and external teams with expertise across a wide range of technology knowledge areas. This is something we are fairly good at and it has enabled us to pursue numerous success stories with businesses in which technological convergence has been the pivotal factor in getting exceptional outcomes.”
Talent and businesses
Eurecat is looking to continue growing and reach €100 million in revenue and a workforce of 1,100 people by 2027 while investing €24 million in state-of-the-art technology infrastructures over the three years of the plan.
“As a non-profit technology centre, when we talk about revenue and investment at Eurecat we mean money which is used to engender knowledge and new technologies that are transferred to the productive sector, generating value and a positive impact on the ecosystem and making us more competitive as a country,” points out Eurecat’s chair Daniel Altimiras.
In terms of talent, “Eurecat is a diverse, committed and caring community featuring highly qualified talent,” he adds. “We want our team to keep on growing and so talent has an even more central role in this new stage at Eurecat.” Indeed, one of the new plan’s strategic goals “is consolidating a modern, highly efficient and sustainable organisational culture coupled with an environment which fosters professional development, attracts expert talent and also has an impact on our positioning as a leading applied research and innovation centre in Europe.”
Eurecat’s new Strategic Plan for 2025-2027 additionally sets targets for the technology centre’s positioning and relations with the stakeholders in the innovation ecosystems in which it is involved. Here, Eurecat is stepping up its commitment and drive to support businesses of all sizes. “In the case of companies exploring incremental solutions whether for regulatory or productivity reasons, we can help them achieve their immediate goals and perhaps inspire them to continue innovating,” comments Xavier López, “Meanwhile, for mature enterprises with a track record in innovation and also for government, we seek to be more than just a technology provider. We are a strategic partner to help them map out their long-term innovation programmes and mentor them during implementation.”
Eurecat brings together the knowhow of over 800 professionals who generated more than €69 million in turnover in 2024 and is engaged in over 200 large national and international R&D and innovation consortium projects with high strategic value in digital, industrial, biotech and sustainability technologies. The technology centre has registered more than 230 patents and has 10 spin-offs while its geographical coverage is based on eleven sites in Catalonia, in Barcelona, Canet de Mar, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Girona, Lleida, Manresa, Mataró, Reus, Tarragona, Amposta and Vila-seca, plus a presence in Malaga, Madrid and Chile.
