National Projects

Network of omics technologies applied to innovation and industrial development of nutraceutical and functional foods. The Red TecnomiFood project, coordinated by Eurecat, aims to integrate omics technologies to facilitate the access to these tecnologies to the food industry and to optimise their use, at all stages of the value chain of the design and biological assessment of ingredients, nutraceuticals and functional foods. Currently, the use of omics sciences in the food industry is essential to face the trend towards personalisation of nutritional recommendations and to promote health, maintenance and optimisation of physiological functions and disease prevention. [...]

The Territorial Competitiveness Specialization Project (PECT in its acronym in Spanish) TurisTIC in family is a research and innovation initiative to transform and boost the tourism in the Costa Daurada and les Terres de l’Ebre, promoting its definition and gestion as familiar touristic destinations and transforming these areas in a reference European observatory and laboratory in technologies and familiar tourism tendencies. Eurecat, through its Technology Consultancy Department, develops two Operations within line 1 of technological drive for the development of research and technology in the tourism sector and its application in competitive products and services. Operation [...]

Development of smart foods and nutritional supplements to improve health, well-being and the quality of life of people with risk to suffer multi-factor pathologies and chronic diseases. The SMARTFOODS project has designed and developed smart foods and nutritional supplements to introduce them in a balanced diet with the aim to reduce and prevent the risk to suffer the most common chronic diseases, like diabetes, cancer, obesity or cardiovascular diseases. The main innovation of the project consists in going beyond functional foods that boost only-one health property available today and moving towards smart foods. The goal is [...]

New ingredients, food supplements and medical foods capable of positively influence the health of people at risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) or who are diagnosed and undergoing therapy. The CIEN TERÁTROFO project investigates and experimentally develops new food consumption products and more effective, safe and beneficial ingredients to prevent the risk to suffer colorectal cancer (CRC), as well as positively contribute to the nutritional response to CRC treatment, in order to alleviate possible secondary nutritional deficits of the treatment and improve the quality of life, the nutritional status and the well-being of the patients, thus [...]

Development of new ingredients and food products to improve people’s mental and emotional well-being and cognitive performance. The DANTIAN project has the objective to meet the demand for alimentary strategies aimed at potential mental well-being and cognitive performance of the consumer. The innovation of the project is based on the development of new bioactive ingredients and food supplements, associated with a better understanding of the mechanism of action at the cognitive level and its relationship with the intestinal microbiota, which can have significant effects on people’s emotional well-being. In the framework of the project, preclinical studies [...]

Development of new creative formats and the enrichment of the contents through data generated by the public during their visit experience and the reading they make of everything around them. The Engagement project aims to improve the satisfaction and experience of users and promote their participation and commitment to the museum, through monitoring their own experience. The project that deploys the notion of expanded museum, understood as a strategy based on singularizing and personifying the visitor experience, multiplying its stories and overflowing the spatial and temporal limits of the museum, creating an ecosystem of digital content [...]

Creation of a new group with the aim to promote transfer and research in the Internet of Things (IoT) sector as a strategic field with great potential within the ICT area. The FEM-IoT project has been promoted by twelve Catalan research centres and universities that are pioneers in creating IoT solutions and technologies in different fields such as sensors, computing, security or energy consumption, among others. FEM-IoT has the objective of sharing knowledge and capabilities to obtain a coordination model that allows establishing common strategies in research and the transfer of results. Within the framework of [...]

New platform for the copyright management of digital creative works that allows the creation, exhibition, commercialisation, licensing and distribution of works through a new virtual market, using Blockchain technologies and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technologies). The IDENTI@RT project develops new identity management solutions and guarantees of exploitation rights in digital creative works with the aim to address issues related to the preservation of the value of digital assets such as the value of the asset itself, authenticity and long-term digital preservation. The innovation promoted within the framework of the project allows artists, creators and designers to register [...]

New energy storage system based on graphene electrodes, capable of supplying a fully autonomous device made up of one or more sensors together with low-consumption control electronics. The Autograph project develops an energy storage system prototype based on graphene supercapacitors and that has the ability to manage integrated sensors, including process and signal communication. Autograph project, through the development of this prototype, aims to respond to the demand caused by new technologies on Smart Cities, Smart Building and Internet of Things (IoT). Eurecat participates in the project through its Functional Printing & Embedded Devices Unit which [...]

New microcapsules with antimicrobial and disinfectant effects for the sanitation of high-concurrency spaces. The Microesenci project investigates, develops and validates new microcapsules, which contain essential oils, with the objective to reduce the risks of infection in different risk situations and exposure spaces for vulnerable people, such as hospitals, elderly’s centres or collective transports. In addition, the polymers used in the microcapsules developed within the project are biodegradable and comply with the environmental policies of the European Union and the United States governments. Microencapsulation is a technology that allows applying active ingredients to different types of materials, [...]

Innobrain project has the main objective to investigate on new technologies for innovating in rehabilitation and cognitive stimulation treatments for patients with neurodegenerative and psychiatric illnesses. In particular, Innobrain’s solution will be addressed to patients with ABI (acquired brain injury), schizophrenia, dementia and bipolar disorder, some of the most common mental diseases in the Catalan society. The results of the investigation will allow to consolidate and reinforce the competitiveness of the Catalan Investigation and Innovation Community, englobing hospitals, companies and investigation centres, on the Guttman, NeuroPersonalTrainer®, a platform for cognitive stimulation. This tool offers personalized, intensive, [...]

SIMBIOTS project, which reached its end date, facilitates the introduction of robotics in new industrial processes and applications thanks to the development of collaborative robots that facilitates the interaction of robots and operators without physical barriers. SIMBIOTS allows: The implementation of safe workspaces shared between robots and operators The improvement in the ergonomics of workers The reduction of the number of injuries and casualties resulting from the activity The increase in industrial productivity through sustainable manufacturing SIMBIOTS is a project of the Community Industries of the Future (IdF) of RIS3CAT coordinated by the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI) with [...]

The Community of Industries of the Future, coordinated by Eurecat and composed of 28 reference entities in the Catalan manufacturing sector, aims to consolidate a leading innovation pole in Efficient and Sustainable  Manufacturing in Catalonia, by creating a network of capacities and local pilot plants that allow the cohesion of integral value chains around industrial R+D+i. The IdF community jointly proposes the realization of 5 strategic projects of applied research and industrial development during the 2018-2020 triennium, focused on the fields of industrial digitization, collaborative robots, advanced processes and functional products. These include the IGNITE project, [...]

Development and understanding of new ion implantation processes of hard materials substrates and PVD AICrSiN-based hard coatings. The project, led by Eurecat through its Metal and Ceramic Materials Unit, aims to improve the properties of these materials, such as mechanical (hardness and fracture toughness), tribological (friction and wear resistance), chemical (corrosion resistance) and thermal (oxidation resistance) for its application in the metal-mechanical industry. DEMANDING is one of the four subprojects that make up the HARDPROTECT consortium project “Enhanced performance (corrosion and mechanical integrity) of hard material substrates by means of PVD AICrSiN coatings and ion implantation”, [...]

Software energy management tools to improve and optimize the energy efficiency of HVAC facilities in the tertiary sector. GDO2Clim project, ended in January 2018, has contributed to improving energy efficiency, energy demand management and to the promotion of the production of renewable energies. The tools developed also allow the supervision of the installation performance and offers an approximation of its lifetime. During the GDO2Clim project, two modules focused on climate generation units have been developed: a Module Energy Supervision of Facilities (of air conditioning) and Optimization of the Demand Curve (OpCD) and a Module of Analysis [...]