University courses in the fields of technology, business and health which take a professional approach and encourage entrepreneurship

The project has been coordinated by the businessman Jaume Ferrer and has had the collaboration of Accenture. In total Nearly 100 companies and sector associations have taken part, belonging to eleven branches of activity: energy, agri-food, automotive, logistics, construction, tourism, textiles, water cycle, cities, ICT sector and banking. The research addresses the relevance of business models and best practices in each of the sectors when applying the circular economy.

Needs are analyzed in matters such as; regulatory changes, key technologies, training and employment skills, as well as the stimuli and public aid needed to make the circular economy more profitable than the traditional linear economy by motivating actors (society and business). The aim of this initiative is to contribute to the achievement of the measures included in the Spanish Circular Economy Strategy 2030 (EEEC) announced by the Spanish government.

According to Jaime Ferrer, “companies agree that circular economy models are of different importance depending on the sector; we are talking about issues such as ecodesign, the use of renewable resources, the recovery of materials, the extension of useful life, “service” business models or shared consumption platforms ”.

Mar Isla, researcher at the TecnoCampus Chair in Circular Economics and Sustainability, believes that: “if the goals of the EEEC 2030 are to be met, measures will be needed to promote the incorporation of recovered materials into the production cycles of all sectors and, in addition, the principles of repair and extension of life will have to be integrated. useful products in business models. ”

Jordi Morató, researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Sustainability at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, is surprised by the level of awareness of companies when facing this change and the clarity when it comes to identifying the barriers that they make it difficult: “We will only achieve the objectives of the EEEC 2030 if regulation and incentives mobilize private capital to develop a state network for the collection and recovery of both household fractions and industrial waste. EU Next Generation funding will not be enough. ”

Joan Batalla, CEO of Funseam, emphasized: “The new regulations promote renewable energy and waste recovery, but the transition to the circular economy will require new adjustments, particularly in terms of incentives for private capital. It is necessary to promote business models that promote energy saving, waste assessment and renewable energy generation networks, as well as industrial and energy symbiosis projects between complementary sectors ”. The document provides the administrations with some proposals for the design of regulatory measures, as well as specific assistance programs for the real needs of companies.

Jaime Ferrer points out, for example, that “measures to support the electric vehicle must be complemented with measures that facilitate the industrial conversion of the sector to activities such as the development of new materials, the conversion of internal combustion vehicles into electric and remanufacturing of components for reincorporation into the production processes of the manufacture of vehicles and other industrial goods. ” The conclusions of the project are being made known to companies and administrations. Reports related to 8 sectors (energy, water cycle, textiles, tourism, transporte and logistics, automotive and industrial goods, consumption and food and construction) have been completed. The 2022 sectoral reports derived from the research as well as a general report are expected to be published in early 11.

See the full report

The Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability, with the support of its founding partners, convenes the 1st edition of the awards "Awards for the best final degree or master's thesis with a perspective on circular economy", with the aim of promoting the integration of training on circular economy and sustainability in a systematic and interdisciplinary way in the studies offered at the TecnoCampus. In this sense, the competition is open for the best final degree or master's theses that provide the perspective of circularity in their content. 

The awards seek to recognize those works that provide proposals to address the need for the transition to new models of production and consumption. 

The award is funded by the Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability, which has the support of Aigües de Mataró, the Maresme Solid Waste Consortium and the Maresme County Council, andcarries an endowment of 800 euros for each of the winning works. 

You can access the bases in this link.

On XNUMX December, the Spanish National Agency (ANE) for the development and management of the European Union's Erasmus + program in the field of education and training (SEPIE) announced the project grant XNUMXD in the Digitalization of Learning in Practice,led by the educators on the Degree in Nursing at the TecnoCampus School of Health Sciences, Carlos Martínez and Esther Cabrera (pictured), with the participation of Carles Garcia(SQAI) , Anna Gabriel and Marta Carceller (project service and research support atTecnoCampus) 

This is a project in which Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology and Business Development (Austria), the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences Lublin (Poland), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany), the technology company Kubify -Learning Toolbox (Netherlands) and the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute all participate.

The 4D project aims to design mobile technology that improves learning in clinical practice and promotes communication between the healthcare environment and the university with the double challenge of determining the influential factors in learning during students' internships in the health sector (in the fields of nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and psychology, among others) and digitising practical environments.  

This project coordinated by TecnoCampus was submitted to the call ERASMUS plus Call 2021 Round 1 KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education and competed with a total of 108 projects statewide. Finally, it has been selected together with five other projects from all over Catalonia, and ranks fourth in funding out of the 34 selected at the state level (a total of € 377.840).  

An external commission of the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia will visit the TecnoCampus in March to issue a quality report of the Degree in Nursing and the Master's Degree in Integrated Care in Chronicity and Aging of the School of Health Sciences. This is a common procedure that is carried out every six years in the case of university degrees and every four years in the case of university master's degrees. 

The School must draw up a self-report on all the activities related to the studies prior to the visit. The self-report has been prepared by a school committee representing the students, the Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) and the Administration and Services Staff (PAS) with the aim of preparing a document that includes different points. of view. 

The self-report can be consulted here!, and until Thursday, December 16, everyone can propose improvements to the content of the self-report. The proposals can be sent through the open mailbox.

The DIGRAES21 congress aims to be the meeting point for research groups and doctoral students in the country who investigate the recreational phenomenon, whether from a social, humanistic or technological point of view. The theme of the congress, under the motto “The map and the game. Game Studies in Spain ”seeks to establish a network of knowledge focused both on the people involved (research groups, doctoral students and researchers), as well as on the situation of the discipline itself and the existing studies and lines of research in the territory. .  

In this sense, it will have 44 presentations by 68 authors that focus on the different forms of play, whether analog or digital, as well as on phenomena related to the playful dimension and its context. In addition, the conference will feature three keynote speakers with a long international career: Susana Tosca (Roskilde University, Denmark), Clara Fernández Vara (NYU Game Center at New York University) and Nelson Zagalo (Aveiro University, Portugal) .

Since last October, the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, in charge of managing the park, has been partner network of EIT Health Spain, a community of knowledge and innovation in the sector promoted by the European Union through the Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The challenge is to consolidate one hub around the health cluster where all the agents of the value chain of the sector are concentrated to integrate and share resources in a collaborative way to become a benchmark in the sector and offer better socio-health solutions to people.

The TecnoCampus has the Chair of aging and quality of life, whose mission is to advance in the research and implementation of new models of approach and attention to the problems arising from the aging of the population and the promotion of improvement. of quality of life. EIT Health will enable TecnoCampus to open up to the European ecosystem in connection with approximately 150 partner organizations and their leaders in the worlds of business, research and education.

EIT Health is the leading European body for innovation in health and its mission is to respond to the major health challenges facing Europe in healthy living and active aging to improve people's quality of life.

Last July, the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia launched an open call to find young graduates or students who would like to participate in the Talent Pact project. After a selection process, a total of 26 people took part, three of whom are recent graduates or students of the last year of the Degree in Audiovisual Media.

The Talent Pact is an initiative of the Audiovisual Cluster of Catalonia that was born with the aim of helping emerging talent to professionalize and connect with the fields of performing arts and audiovisual. It offers a first experience of professionalization to students and recent graduates in the field of audiovisual. With the tutoring of professionals in the sector, audiovisual projects, promotional clips have been carried out, in connection with emerging performing arts projects, for which the result will become a tool for the promotion and visibility of their work. For the selection of performing arts projects we have had the collaboration of the institutions that offer higher education in this field: the Institut del Teatre (IT), ESEM of the Taller de Músics and the Center de les Arts of the Circ Rogelio Rivel. 4 contemporary dance projects have been worked on, two theater, one music and one circus.

Next Tuesday, November 30, at 17 pm in the Sala Raval of the CCCB and as part of the events that are part of the Audiovisual Talent Week will be shown the result of the work. The presentation will be accompanied by the talk-debate "New digital scenarios for live arts", with the participation of Narcís Puig (deputy artistic director of the Festival Temporada Alta), Georgina Oliva (Director of programming and content of the Teatre Lliure ) and Jordi Oriol (actor, author and theater director) and will be moderated by journalist Manuel Pérez i Muñoz.

The photography competition organized by the Chair of Aging and Quality of Life of the TecnoCampus and the University Community Care Unit already has winners! On October 1, the photography contest "My Elderly Person" was launched to the whole community (students, PS di PDI) to promote, make visible and celebrate the International Day of Older Persons.

This Monday, the prizes awarded by the jury were presented after evaluating the 17 participating photographs. The winners are:

• 1st Prize: Pol Aguilar Grau, with the photograph entitled “ETERN”.
• 2nd prize: Delia Raya, with the photograph entitled "THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE".
• 3rd prize: Anabel Casanovas Alvarez, with the photograph entitled "THE MAP OF LIFE".
• Second prize: Marina Boza Soltero, with the photograph entitled “GENERATIONS”
  
  Congratulations to all of them!

This November, the publishing house Males Herbes has published Marginality, the last book of the professor of the Degree in Audiovisual Media Joan Jordi Miralles.  

Marginality is the art of commenting, pointing and drawing in the margins of a book, to highlight everything that is in the text implicitly but buried. Through this concept, Joan Jordi Miralles groups together three long narratives, written over a slow fire and strictly realistic. They are everyday stories that place the protagonists on the threshold of a moral border about to break, on the fine line that separates good intentions from unexpected results.

Joan Jordi Miralles has published the novels·the The Most High (Andròmina Prize, Editions Three and Four, 2005), The whale's uterus (Vila de Lloseta Award, Editorial Moll, 2010), A wonderful woman (LaBreu, 2014) i Agglutination (Joanot Martorell Award, Edicions 62, 2018), in addition to the volume of long stories The intimacy of beasts (Marian Vayreda Award, Empúries, 2017). His stories have participated in various media and anthologies, including Vanishing Points (Weeds, 2015) i Sangassa (AdiA, 2017). In theater, he has published plays This is Austria (Pare Colom Mediterranean Theater Award, Leonard Muntaner, 2012) i Happy children (Weeds, 2016). He is currently the head of content and screenwriter for the new television format program The return of the skylights, which will be broadcast next year on Channel 33.

On Thursday 25 November, at 19 pm, Joan Jordi Miralles will talk to Manel Ollé in the garden of La Central del Raval. More information at bookstore website.

Josep Lluís Checa, general director of the TecnoCampus; Isabel Martínez Lozano; director of Programs with Universities and Promotion of Young Talent of the ONCE Foundation; Albert Vidal, managing director of the Fundació el Maresme; and Ismael Hernández, academic coordinator of the specialization course I-talent. Inclusiveness, Innovation and integration for Socio-labor Insertion have been responsible for welcoming students who will receive this training in the coming months in the classrooms of the TecnoCampus.

It is an initiative implemented years ago in several Spanish universities and now reaches the Pompeu Fabra University, through the TecnoCampus, with the aim of contributing to the employability of young people with intellectual disabilities. They are endowed with competencies both of a transversal nature - the social and emotional skills necessary to maintain satisfactory interactions - and of a specific nature - knowledge and skills required for the effective exercise of their work activity.

The teaching will be given by teachers of the various degrees taught at the TecnoCampus, while the coordination is in charge of the Chair of Social Economy. It should be noted that undergraduate students will collaborate as volunteers to facilitate the integration on campus of these young people who have no previous experience at the University.

More than 80 people gathered yesterday in teams at the TecnoCampus in Mataró to participate in the competition of ideas in the field of sustainability, tourism and mobility: the Dream BIG Express. This initiative is developed through a competition where solutions are proposed to proposed challenges on: efficiency in energy management, tourism or mobility. This new edition had the participation of teams from university courses and training cycles. After 3 hours of session, from 15pm to 18pm, a jury made up of different industry experts chose the winning team, which will accelerate their idea in the Imagine Express 2022 program, on board a high-speed train between Barcelona and Paris next February. The winning project was Efitrònica, which presented a solution to create more efficient and sustainable trains, and which was proposed by students Joan Gabarró, Pau López and Alberto Rodríguez. 

After a year and a half, a break derived from the Covid-19, this new edition of Imagine Express wants to promote young and innovative talent as part of a high-speed train journey between Barcelona and Paris. Participants, called dreamers, must develop in teams of three members an innovative project based on different technologies to respond to one of the selected strategic challenges. Teamwork is the main activity and is carried out on board two train cars dedicated to dreamers, as if they were their offices. 

In Paris, the dreamers, accompanied by mentors and experts, will continue to make a final presentation on board a ship that will cross the Seine as it passes through Paris. Back in Barcelona, ​​the edition will end with presentations as part of the celebration of the 4YFN of the MWC scheduled for February 2022. 

Energy efficiency, tourism and sustainable mobility  

Renfe is the second largest final consumer of electricity. The challenge facing the company is to improve the energy efficiency of its business and achieve a significant cost reduction, at this time of uncertainty in the energy market. 

On the other hand, and although Renfe consumes all the electricity with a certificate of guarantee of origin (100% renewable) in its commercial activity of operation, there are still some transits made with fossil fuels. Continuing with the objectives and energy strategies of the Government of Spain, as well as other international bodies, Renfe seeks to consolidate its commitment to the environment focused on reducing CO2 emissions as well as the search for viable energy alternatives. more sustainable. 

On the other hand, mass tourism is harming places and their residents, in the face of a global phenomenon in many destinations where the number of travelers has reached disproportionate proportions. The trend is described as “Overtourism”: the excessive growth of visitors that causes a place to become overcrowded and residents to suffer the consequences and permanent changes in their lifestyles, social welfare and access to services and goods. common. This impact of tourism also exacerbates energy and waste problems. 

Currently 50% of the world's population lives in cities. According to UN studies, the forecast is that by 2050, 70% of the population will live in a metropolis. This increase in urban areas means an increase in daily travel and is a challenge to achieve a mobility policy that involves a reduction and a change in the way we travel, more sustainable and respectful of our environment and at the same time avoid more 1,3 million deaths annually in traffic accidents that occur worldwide. Vehicle electrification is playing a very important role in the automotive and power generation industry. A challenge is presented to manage electricity demand, reduce losses due to energy transporte and preserve the quality of electricity supply. 

Cases of previous editions 

Imagine Express has had several success stories born of this program in the previous six editions. Trip4Real is a service to connect travelers with local citizens of the destination. Driven by dreamer Gloria Molins, in 2016 it was acquired by AirBNB. HumanITcare by dreamer Núria Pastor, is the Artificial Intelligence platform based on real data from patients' lives, such as wearables and self-reported questions, which facilitates better medical care. Vincles Bcn is another success story that was also born on Imagine Express; is a platform to avoid the loneliness of the elderly driven by the dreamer Josep Maria Miró. It is an application for creating communication networks between the elderly (via tablet) and people they trust (via mobile App). The project has been awarded 5 million euros by Bloomberg Philanthropies and Barcelona City Council has invested 10 million more for a first deployment to 20.000 grandparents in the city of Barcelona. Also noteworthy is Psious, by dreamers Dani Roig and Xavier Palomer. The app works on treating phobias using augmented reality and has captured several rounds of funding. Or Ikigai, the platform that turns retired doctors into mentors, promoted by dreamer Cristina Coll and Xavier Tarradellas.  

The Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat, through the Public Employment Service of Catalonia (SOC), has awarded a dozen universities, Code Academies and vocational training centers carrying out 24 courses to train 500 professionals in high-level digital specialties in high demand by companies. One of the selected ones is the TecnoCampus, which will teach BackEnd Web Developer and FrontEnd Web Developer courses.

The courses, which are completely free, will focus on learning new skills and recycling knowledge, with the aim of improving their skills and facilitating the possibility of reorienting the professional trajectories of the participants.

Candidates to be one of the 60 participants who will receive this training (30 for each course), which will begin on January 10, can find out more. here!.

Interested persons must be registered with the SOC as job seekers and comply with the requirements established by each training program. 

This is the first time that the SOC's catalog of training specialties includes level 4 and 5 courses, ie vocational training for high-level employment. About 10% of the population registered as job seekers do not have higher education and it is intended that the calls will encourage the transition of professionals to sectors leading to employment, such as digital. 

LAccommodation Management subjects Tourist, which is taught in the framework of the double degree in Tourism and Leisure Management and Business Administration and Innovation Management, has reached a collaboration agreement with Ubikos companies, Yieldplanet. Fideltour and Marmirada for the use of their different hotel management IT tools, such as Webs for Hotels and Management Revenue, booking engine Alojasuite; PMS (Property Management System), RMS (Revenue Management System), Channel Manager, CRM (Custom Relationship Management), Booking Engine and Indicator Analysis (KPI) for the students they can manage, organize, plan and work in a virtual hotel with real, state-of-the-art tools.

Collaboration with these companies makes that undergraduate students they can have, at all times, the latest version of the tools that are being used in the tourist accommodation management sector.

The Teaching Plan of this subject aims for all students to come out with a clear knowledge about the management of a tourist accommodation, so the syllabus follows two paths: lthe first is the knowledge of the characteristics and functionality of the different processes of the departments of a hotel, to be able to design and plan them; and the second, the application of this functionality and design in the different computer tools of management.

The journey of knowledge of the operation of the processes will run parallel to that of knowledge with the most current computer management tools, provided by Ubikos, Yieldplanet, Fideltour and Marmirada.

At the end of the course the student will be able to request the realization of his practices in the Hotel Acapulco of Lloret de Mar which has the tools previously mentioned in full operation in his daily management.

A software based on artificial intelligence for the diagnosis of dysphagia, which will help optimize the screening, diagnosis and treatment of people suffering from this disease, was taken last night on award with the highest endowment of the Night of Entrepreneurship: the Creatic award for the best business initiative in the field of technology and innovation, endowed with 12.000 euros and a discounted stay in the incubator for one year. This is a project that, under the name ofAIMS-OD, presented by Alberto Martín, Pere Clavé and Xavier Tibau. 

Orgasnic, which proposes the design and manufacture of home decoration products and catering from organic waste and which has started a first line with waste of oyster clams, mussels and assorted shell, won the  award for the best project with social impact (6.000 euros and discounted stay in the incubator). It was presented by David Junyent and Iván Gordillo. 

As for the Creatic in the best initiative led by dones, endowed with 6.000 euros and stay in the subsidized incubator, fell to Carla Carrasco for the project Datali Group, which offers specialized advisory services for marketplace and ecommerce based on software that allows the optimization of the financial and tax processes of companies that market in online environments.     

The photo of the winners of the Night was completed with two awards that want to encourage entrepreneurship among students. Thus, the awards for university entrepreneurship it was for Lam Pau Aparici, for the project Ohlechef, a web platform that offers live online cooking workshops with prestigious chefs, and that includes a pre-delivery service of all the ingredients needed to prepare the recipes for the workshop you hire. 

El best entrepreneurial project in the field of vocational training fell to the students Cristina Mateos, Jabou Kandeh, Nouhaila Benktib and Yousra Benyermak, of the Thos i Codina high school, for the proposal The Coffice Mataró, of a multiservice space that offers coworking rooms, cafeteria and bookstore in the same establishment , in an innovative environment where business activity and cultural leisure can be accommodated. 

New guardians for social responsibility 

During the gala, presented by Mag Lari, a new initiative was announced, the “Més-Mataró, company and society” awards, which aim to promote the integration of social responsibility (SR) policies in business initiatives, contribute to the responsible socio-economic development of Mataró and promote good SR practices. 

As in recent editions, the Creatic awards and the Entrepreneurship Night, an initiative of the TecnoCampus and Mataró City Council, have had the support from various companies and institutions, including the patrons who make possible the financial endowment of the awards, and thus show commitment to entrepreneurs taking their first steps. They are seventh total: Bytemaster (platinum category); FYR Legal, Minoryx Therapeutics and Banco Sabadell (gold category); CSV experts (silver category), Derecho.comi Palobiofarma (bronze category). With its support and that of the Diputació de Barcelona, ​​the Department of the Vice-Presidency and of Digital Policies and Territory and that of Business and Work of the Generalitat (through ACCIÓ) and of entities such as GENTIC, AIJEC, FAGEM, Dona ' t an impetus, Chamber of Commerce, PIMEC and BANC, promotes the entrepreneurship of the territory through the Creatic Awards. 

Industrial and automatic electronic engineering student Aleix Moral presents the results of his final degree project at the international congress SAFE 2021.

In this work, an eye-tracker has been successfully interconnected with a collaborative robotic arm so that the user sends a series of points, which he specifies with the gaze, and then the robot makes a drawing on paper interconnecting these points. One possible application would be the making of drawings by people with functional diversity.

The final degree project was defended in the last call of July 2021 at the Polytechnic School of the Tecnocampus, under the direction of Professor Marcos Faúndez and with the support of Professor Josep Lopez Xarbau. The work has been selected by the SAFE 2021 congress for oral presentation and publication in the congress minutes book. Due to the pandemic situation, the congress was held via zoom.

You can see one project demo in this link and the complete TFG can be consulted in the Tecnocampus repositories.

The TecnoCampus and the Mataró City Council were awarded at the Biz Barcelona Entrepreneurship Show by the Barcelona Provincial Council as one of the most active local Reempresa centers in the Barcelona region. This is an award that has been repeated for five years, when the Reempresa Awards initiative began. Reempresa is an initiative of the employer Cecot with the support of the Diputació de Barcelona. The Councilor for Employment and Business and the second deputy mayor of Mataró City Council, Sergi Morales, was in charge of receiving the recognition. 

Since its launch in 2012, the Reempresa center at the TecnoCampus has reached 105 cases of “successful re-companies” (assignments or business transfers). To date, this point of attention has advised 318 businesses whose owners wanted to transfer it to an entrepreneur and 508 negotiation processes have been generated. 

The aim of the program is to promote and structure the transfer of companies as a way of growth of economic activity, and thus avoid the closure of economically viable businesses and the destruction of employment in the municipalities of the region. 

The program offers people who want to sell their business, free of charge, individual advice for the preparation of the Assignment Plan, as well as advice throughout the transfer process of the company: from the first meeting of presentation of the parties until the signing of the contract of sale, going through the phases of negotiation and mediation to reach an agreement.  

People who have the project of “re-starting” a company or business that is already in operation, are offered a portfolio of businesses in transmission and are helped to make the viability plan or Re-enterprise of a business that interests them. 

Within the framework of the 2021 edition of RECUWASTE, the Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability has been responsible for directing and moderating the new TecnoCampus Innovation Corner space of the congress. With this initiative RECUWASTE increases the presence of the industrial world among its actors and audience, in a further step to become a cross-cutting and integrative proposal of all parties involved in the generation and management of waste, now considered new resources , ie public administration, waste managers, business world, consumers and innovation and transfer system. The Tecnocampus Innovation Corner space has focused this first year on two major sectors, textiles and plastics. The morning session began with the intervention of Sònia Llorens, director of the Chair, who presented the paper "Innovation for circularity" and then gave way to the other participants. First of all, Maite Ardèvol, leader of the team of Circular Economy, Technological Transformation and Disruption Unit of ACCIÓ, of the Catalan government has presented a good example of companies with circular solutions in the sectors, textiles and plastics and has announced the celebration of the international event Circular Economy Hotspot Catalonia 2021 from 15 to 18 November. The subsequent round table focused on the textile sector was moderated by Jordi Costa, CEO of Datambient and spoke by David Puyuelo of the company COLIBRI, Robert D. Thomson, Scientific Director of MATERFAD and Miquel Rey, General Business Director of EURECAT. From this triple point of view, the challenges of the valuation of textile waste to return it to the value chain have been addressed. Coincidence of the speakers in the need for more research to overcome the technological challenges, which are not few, but also to open the perspective to expand the market of recovered raw materials, either within the same sector or others. The hand of MATERFAD has vindicated creativity to rethink the classic concept of fabric and give way to new materials with equal or better functionality, designed under circularity criteria.

The afternoon session, dedicated to plastics, was moderated by Sònia Llorens who introduced the debate with the paper "Polyhedral vision: plastics in the circular economy" which anticipated the variety of perspectives that were raised in the session. Carlos Mendieta, Director of Corporate Affairs, Communication and Sustainability at PelStar, Ivan Albertos, head of public affairs and sustainability at BASF, and Sergio Giménez, Business Director of AIMPLAS took part. The debate has begun with the unanimous rejection of the demonization of plastic, to incorporate the different nuances The table has abounded in the thesis of Leyla Acaroglu, also present in this edition of Recuwaste that invites to abandon simplistic discourses of categorization of materials good and bad, to force technical analyzes of the carbon footprint throughout the life cycle. Also, we can not talk about plastics in general because there are many polymers, with different possibilities of recovery and recycling, and precisely its use and final disposal is the main cause of the environmental impact. Advances in chemical recycling technologies that open up many more options to the already more mature mechanics have also been considered. It is possible, the speakers agreed, that the recycled material will continue to have a slightly higher price on the market. Therefore, beyond the legislation and the dynamizing role of the administration, corporate commitment, corporate responsibility is essential to advance good practices and the choice of business models with a positive social impact. In this same session was also the official presentation of the Ibero-American Network of Waste Management for the Circular Economy, RIGREC, created this year by the Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability of the Tecnocampus, the Consortium for the Treatment of Residus del Maresme and the UNINI-Mexico University with the interventions of Mar Illa, representing TecnoCampus held by the Technical Secretariat of the Network, and Alina Pascual of the UNINI-Mexico University.

Professor Marcos Faúndez publishes the article “Exploiting Spectral and Cepstral Handwriting Features on Diagnosing Parkinson's Disease” in the indexed first quartile journal IEEE Access. This work has been carried out jointly with researchers from the TEC in Monterrey (Mexico) and the University of Technology in Brno (Czech Republic). In the scientific study cepstral parameters are applied, widely used in voice signal processing, in writing signals, as well as Machine learning techniques. This strategy allows to raise the classification rates of Parkinson’s disease from writing to 98.57%.

The work is part of the activities of the signal and data processing group of the TecnoCampus and the competitive project TAPEO (Advanced techniques for preprocessing online writing for device interoperability) funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, in the last call.

The full text, published at the end of October 2021, can be consulted openly in this one link 

The TecnoCampus has launched a new one free expert advice program for businesses which aims to increase the chances ofaccess to the Next Generation EU funding lines and public research, development and innovation (R & D & I) programs. 

The Catalan, state and European public administrations make different aids and support programs available to companies in order to boost investments in R & D & I.  

At the moment, thanks to the new Next Generation Funds of Europe for the reconstruction of the European economy, different aid programs are being deployed aimed at boosting the ecological and digital transition of companies.  

The TecnoCampus wants to bring these resources to companies in the territory with a specialized technical support service that will accompany them in the definition of R & D projects and / or transformation of the productive model of the company, the identification of financial aid to carry them out as well as the structuring of the project proposal or report for the processing of aid 

The program will select up to 20 companies that make investments in R&D or have an innovative project, that incorporate digital technologies or elements with a positive impact on the environment. 

In order to access the program, you must complete the online form on the website where you can consult the rules and all the information relating to access requirements and selection criteria.  

The framework agreement is an update of the agreement signed in 2014, which aims to make it easier for entrepreneurs to access financing on preferential terms. Banco Sabadell is a specialist in corporate banking, and for years they have been launching the Bstartup program, which aims to reach out to entrepreneurs and technology startups. The agreement expands the services it offers at TecnoCampus, with the new information and advice service on Next Generation funds, of which the entity has created a repository with all the information, which will be incorporated into the web portal for grants and lines of funding available on the TecnoCampus website.

With regard to the creative awards sponsorship agreement, Banco Sabadell collaborates in the Gold category, and participates as a member of the jury for the winning projects. The awards, which will be presented next Thursday in the Night of Entrepreneurship, also have the patronage of other companies and institutions: Bytemaster (platinum category); FYR Legal, Minoryx Therapeutics (also in gold category); CSV Experts (Silver Category); Derecho.com and Palobiofarma (bronze category).