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

The twelve finalist works are part of an exhibition at the RAW Space, from May 17 to July 14. Last May 17, it was announced that the winner of the 174 proposals received was a TecnoCampus student, Marc Bonet, who presented a photograph and a report which are part of the photographic series of his graduation thesis.

The thesis consists of a photographic series called "Beyond cruelty" inspired by the aesthetics of the Pre-Raphaelite artistic movement and its relationship with literature. The photographs are based on stories written by Bonet that are illustrated with pictorial photographs.

"I value the realization of the event in a very positive way. We have achieved our two goals: to turn Mataró into a meeting point for entrepreneurs and investors from all over the world and for the attendees to have been inspired and motivated to continue working with their new learning and connections", explains the director of Startup Grind Mataró, Jordi Bolet Castellà.

During the two days, the convention was attended by entrepreneurs, investors and technology experts from all over the world. Among the most prominent participants are Àlex Corretgé, head of innovation at Vueling; Victòria Gago, co-founder of the European Blockchain Convention; Isabelle Gallo, partner of the Breega investment fund; Rytis Lauiris, founder of Omnisend or Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit, co-founder of MarsBased.

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The activity in Catalonia was sustained by three large rounds: in the medical technology company Impress (122 million) and in the biotechnology companies Minoryx Therapeutics and SpliceBio, with more than 50 million each. Without these operations, the investment received would have been reduced by 6%. Last year, 35 rounds were closed, one less than in 2021 and seven less than in 2020, but the investments in each round are larger.

Minoryx Therapeutics is based at the TecnoCampus and focuses its activity on the development of drugs for minority diseases.

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The program will give support for older people so that they can mentor people at risk of unwanted loneliness through the peer learning methodology. The "Junts" peer help program for seniors is a program driven by the Chair of Aging and Quality of Life at the TecnoCampus, attached to the Pompeu Fabra University, which will have the collaboration of the Federation of Older People's Associations of Catalonia (FATEC) and the support of the town councils of Argentona, Mataró, Calella and Pineda de Mar.

The aim is to create a network of peers among older people, by carrying out training workshops for volunteers over the age of 65 from the Maresme region so that they have the knowledge to help early detect elderly people at risk of unwanted loneliness. The workshops that these volunteers will receive must help them have emotional, digital and social support tools that they can use to detect situations at risk of loneliness among their peer group; elderly people around them.

The detection in the initial phase of these situations, before they become permanent, through the development of a network close to their environment, will allow the beneficiaries to feel accompanied and that they can develop activities that make them feel useful and socially active. The final objective is to find solutions based on research and to improve in this way the health and quality of life of the elderly in the territory.

Beyond financial support, this program aims to promote the knowledge transfer in the field of health encouraging personalized mentoring activities and expert support. The project is endowed with funding of 20.410 euros and is included in the area of ​​action for the elderly and challenges arising from aging.

The TecnoCampus Chair of Social Economy played a fundamental role in the organization of the symposium, which acted as host. Eloi Serrano, director of the department, was the president of the congress and welcomed the participants in the opening plenary session.

Four TecnoCampus researchers who are part of the Department of Social Economy presented several academic papers at the congress.

On Thursday afternoon it was the turn, first of all, of professors Ismael Hernández and Eloi Serrano, with the work "The financing of cooperatives: present situation and challenges for the future", within the workshop "Entrepreneurship in social economy through of university spin-offs and start-ups". Next, fellow professor Miguel Guillén Burguillos presented the communication "The public procurement of cooperatives by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2017-2021)", as part of the workshop "Public-private community collaboration".

Miguel Garau presented "The role of Joan Coloma Chalmeta in the modernizing impulse of Catalan cooperativeism during the Second Republic", in the "History of Cooperativism" workshop. Finally, professor Miguel Guillén Burguillos presented a new communication, in this one entitled "The role of unions in the conversion of commercial companies in bankruptcy into social economy companies: a theoretical review", within the workshop "Crisis and transformation in the "social economy".

During two days, attendees will have the opportunity to networking i learn from more than twenty renowned speakers in the technology startup sector. In addition, the event has two stages, where presentations and discussion panels will take place to learn and be inspired around topics such as Women in Tech, Founder Stories, Growth Marketing, Investments (Venture Capital, Business Angels & Venture Builder ), Legaltech & Cybersecurity or digital transformation (Metaverse, AI, Blockchain, Crypto, Web3, NFTs). Part of the presentations will be in English. Startup Grind Tech Summit is the perfect place to learn, get inspired and connect.

Pitch Competition

One of the highlighted activities will be the Pitch Competition, in which participants will make presentations to a jury to choose the best idea. It is an opportunity to introduce the project to potential investors, clients or collaborators. Valuable contacts can also be made that can help in your startup or project.

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Last March 31, the resolution of the Investigo Program was published, which, within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan - Financed by the European Union - NextGenerationEU, aims to grant aid for the recruitment of young people under the age of 30 (job seekers) for the development and execution of functions, tasks and research and innovation initiatives.

The funding that the TecnoCampus has obtained in this second edition of the call, and which amounts to an amount of €198.653,52, will allow the hiring for two years of three profiles as research personnel with the title of doctor, and becomes a new opportunity and impetus to grow and consolidate the research and innovation of the institution's research groups.

On this occasion, the hired people will join the research groups Signal and Data Processing, Technology Applied to High Performance and Health, i Applied Research in the Economic and Social Financial Environment.

Within these groups, the function that these three new profiles of research staff will develop will be, among others, research projects, carrying out experimental tasks, data analysis and support in the writing of scientific articles .

The process for the selection of the candidates will be published soon in the section Work with us from the TecnoCampus website.

The Jornada de Portes Obertes was structured in morning and afternoon sessions, with a large turnout in all of them. This year, in addition, up to five sessions were held in addition to those dedicated to degrees, which focused on academic procedures, university services and scholarships and financing of studies. Next year, TecnoCampus launches two new degrees which reinforce the range of degrees that can be studied there.

throughout the day, 764 future students passed through the classrooms and laboratories, accompanied by family members and friends. The TCM6 building concentrated the sessions dedicated to degrees in the field of health, which this year incorporates as a novelty the Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. The TCM2 building was the setting for most of the sessions for the degrees in the field of audiovisual, video games and business. Some sessions, in particular those of the Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, Marketing, and Business Administration and Innovation Management degrees, were held in the foyer and the auditorium of the Congress Center, to accommodate all the attendees who requested it.

Apart from the teaching staff and the administration and services staff, around thirty students collaborated on the day, especially in accreditation tasks, guided visits to the facilities and support to the teachers in the classrooms, where they give their testimony as students of the various degrees.

As a novelty of this year's open doors, it was possible to visit the space ThinkIn3D, used for guided tours of industrial engineering degrees, and the premises where the Formula Student project takes place, in which students from various degrees build a car to take part in a university competition. In addition, the promoters of the new student residence Athena Living they had a space where they advised families interested in this accommodation.

Guided tours of the campus facilities will soon be available, taking place every Wednesday afternoon in May and June. In this way, all those who could not visit the TecnoCampus during the open doors last Saturday, will be able to do so before the university pre-registration for the month of June begins.

The TecnoCampus already hosted the XVIII CIRIEC Congress in September 2020, in the middle of the pandemic. This congress, although it was able to take place, was affected by covid-19, with a smaller participation and program than usual. That is why CIRIEC-Spain, together with the Social Economy Chair of the TecnoCampus, decided to repeat the congress in Mataró again, so that the pandemic situation was remitted.

The XIX Congress had on April 20, in the opening session, a remote intervention by the Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, in the framework of the approval of the new Organic Law of the University System (LOSU), the articles of which recognize the Social Economy as a form of entrepreneurship that must be promoted from universities, and as a collaborating sector for research activity and knowledge transfer. The mayor of Mataró, David Bote, also took part in the inauguration; the Commissioner of Pompeu Fabra University for affiliated centers, Carles Ramió; , the director of CIRIEC-Spain, José Luis Monzón; the president of the association Economia Social de Catalunya (AESCAT), Guillem Llorens; the deputy director general of social economy and social responsibility of the companies of the Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social, Visitación Álvarez; the deputy director general of Social Economy, Third Sector and Cooperatives of the Generalitat of Catalonia, M. Roser Hernández; and the president of the Scientific Commission of the XIX Congress of CIRIEC and director of the Chair of Social Economy at TecnoCampus, Eloi Serrano.

At the closing, Josep Lluis Checa, general director of TecnoCampus, took part; Carmen Marcuello, vice president of CIRIEC-España; and Carles Campuzano, Councilor for Social Rights of the Generalitat.

Other outstanding participants of the congress were Jordi García Jané, cooperativist of the Roca i Galès Foundation and the Solidarity Economy Network (XES); Antonio Iruela, director of ACEBA; Ignacio Ugalde, president of CEPES Navarra, and Carles Manera, professor at the University of the Balearic Islands, adviser to the Bank of Spain and member of Economistes Front a la Crisi. The latter will be in charge of giving the closing conference of the Congress on Friday, April 21.

In addition, the Congress was structured in 9 general workshops and 13 parallel thematic workshops, where more than a hundred communications were presented. As in previous editions, during the Congress two prizes were awarded to the two best communications presented by young researchers, doctors and non-doctors, under the age of 35; and the two best doctoral theses defended in the last five years.

The congress had the collaboration of the Enuies Network, the Spanish Interuniversity Network of Institutes and Centers for Research in Social Economy, in addition to the sponsorship of the Mataró City Council, the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministry of Labor and Economy Social, Caixa d'Enginyers, Tusgsal, Facto Cooperativa and BonCor social and sustainable catering.

Chronicle of the event published in La Vanguardia

A triumphant, Joan Jordi Miralles builds a work of fiction based on his own experiences in La Masia, where he lived, as part of the Barça basketball team, between the ages of 13 and 17. The novel is set in the 90s, the supposed golden age of the Barça youth team, but what is described is an oppressive and hostile environment.

A story of physical and psychological abuse, by young people who live adolescence with a pressure that sinks them, in a space where the total lack of adult supervision has irreversible consequences. The novel is a story of overcoming, personal rise and fall, but it also functions as an x-ray into the (darker) bowels of FC Barcelona, ​​an institution known and loved around the world. triumphant focus on it bullying, suffocating relationships and toxic behaviors among teenagers. That is why the events narrated in the novel can easily be transferred to the reality that can be experienced in certain situations in high schools and other centers where young people and teenagers live together.

Synopsis

Ulisses is 13 years old and has just signed for Barça, so he moves to La Masia, where he hopes to achieve his dream of becoming a professional player. From this moment, the illusion of his life turns into a nightmare. triumphant is a novel that causes an almost physical effect on the reader, a book that questions the predatory values ​​on which elite sport is based, and much of our society.

The author

Joan Jordi Miralles is PDI in the Audiovisual Media Degree at TecnoCampus, where he teaches subjects such as Serial Fiction, Filmmaking Techniques, Contemporary Television Production and Interactive Screenplay. In the literary field, he has published novels The Most High (Andròmina prize, Tres i Quatre, 2005), The whale's uterus (Vila de Lloseta award, Moll, 2010), A wonderful woman (LaBreu, 2014) and Agglutination (Joanot Martorell prize, Edicions 62, 2018), in addition to the volumes of long stories The intimacy of beasts (Marian Vayreda prize, Empúries, 2017) i Marginality (Weeds, 2021). His stories have taken part in various media and in anthologies, including Vanishing points (Weeds, 2015) i leech (AdiA, 2017). In theater, he has published plays This is Austria (Pare Colom Mediterranean Theater Award, Leonard Muntaner, 2012) i Happy children (Weeds, 2016).

The film, co-produced by TV3, tells the story of Lola, who accidentally becomes pregnant. At a time when the law required women to reflect for three days before proceeding to terminate a pregnancy (law amended in 2022), the story spans three days in Lola's life and the support and criticism she receives in the time to make your decision.

Around 70 citizens, mainly people over 60 and students, companies and professionals in the social and health field, participated in the jornate "How would you make a more caring city?", an ideation space organized in the framework of the PECT "Mataró-Maresme: innovation ecosystem for caring cities". The aim was to find innovative solutions to help build a more caring city, with special emphasis on caring for the elderly.

The event was attended by the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, who welcomed the attendees and highlighted the importance of the strategic project Mataró Ciutat Cuidadora, which is part of the PECT and which is working to make of Mataró a city that promotes the well-being of the people who live there, putting their needs at the center of the city's efforts.

After the welcome, the Dream Big Challenge began, an innovation competition where multiple ideas are generated. With teams made up of three and four participants, the ideal space was built to, throughout the morning, create and think of solutions to promote a healthy urban environment that takes better care of people. To give shape to the ideas, the teams went through the ideation, prototyping, validation and communication phase with the support of Xavier Verdaguer, founder of Imagine Creative Center and facilitator of the day.

From all the participating teams, four finalists were chosen, who presented their ideas to the jury and the rest of the attendees at the day. A jury made up of two representatives of the TecnoCampus and two representatives of the Mataró City Council chose the winning proposal. Team 3.0 was the winning team, with a proposal to normalize the stage of death and grief, from childhood and throughout life, through stories and cartoons.

To end the day, the councilor for Social Welfare and Health Promotion, Laura Seijo, presented the gift to the winning team and closed the event by emphasizing the importance of creating spaces for dialogue and reflection, in addition to emphasize the importance of all ideas. Finally he thanked all the participants for their attendance. The ideation day "How would you make a more caring city?" it is part of the PECT project of "Mataró-Maresme: innovation ecosystem for caring cities" and is co-financed by the Generalitat de Catalunya. More information about the project: www.matarociutatcuidadora.cat

Trained at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya as a telecommunications engineer, he obtained his doctorate at the same university and became a teacher at the then-named Escola Universitària Politècnica de Mataró. He started teaching there in 1995, and from 2001 to 2006 he was head of department. Subsequently, he was general secretary, director of technology transfer and responsible for strategy and operations of the TecnoCampus Foundation in several periods. Janer was a key figure in the first steps of the Foundation, the body created to launch the park, inaugurated in 2010.

Much appreciated by his students and with a strong teaching vocation, he combined classes and research with the various management positions he held at the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, from where he played an important role in the definition of the project university that would be launched in 2010, with the unification of the two university schools that then existed in Mataró.

The book covers the entity's trajectory since its creation and also tries to identify the distinguishing features of this type of entity. The book is the result of the collaboration of Caixa d'Enginyers and the Chair of Social Economy.

The event took place around a round table, moderated by journalist Ramón Pellicer, where the role of cooperative banking and its contribution to the social and responsible economy was debated. Joan Cavallé, director general of Caixa d'Enginyers, took part; Nina Schindler, CEO of EACB (European Association of Cooperative Banks); Cristina Freijanes, secretary general of UNACC; the two authors of the book; Álvaro López, director general of the Treasury and Financial Policy of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation; and Josep Maria Sánchez Pascual, director general of Financial Policy, Insurance and Treasury, and the president of Caixa d'Enginyers, Felix Masjuan.

El 4D project aims to create an individualized and personalized mobile application (app) for the management of curricular practices that will serve both students, tutors, supervisors and teachers of each organization that participates in this learning context.

With this technological application it is intended to improve the experience in learning based on healthcare environments. This project is coordinated by researchers Carlos Martínez and Esther Cabrera and by professor Carles García, from TecnoCampus, and has the participation of the University of Medicine of Lublin (Poland), the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (Spain) , Graz University of Technology (Austria), University of Twente (Netherlands), Kubify BV Learning Toolbox (Netherlands) and University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany).

The international conference, which had the participation of more than 100 people from different European countries, served to highlight the advantages and recommendations of incorporating digital tools that make it possible to create a bridge between health institutions and the academic environment . It was also the forum for the presentation of the first result of the project, the report "Key factors in the digitization of clinical practice environments in higher education".

This report, which will soon be published on the project's website, includes different recommendations obtained from the results of the study and which are summarized as follows: 1. Economic issues, technical characteristics, selection of devices, involvement of students and teachers and guidelines and policies are the five key aspects when designing an innovation for digitization in practices. 2. In order for technology to be implemented correctly, the following strategies must be adopted in parallel with technology adoption: training, teamwork, culture, staff involvement and patient empowerment. 3. After implementation, once the innovation has already been introduced into the practice environment and in order to guarantee the success of mobile learning, aspects such as maintenance, support must be taken into account technological, security and Internet access.

Following this event, the 16th transnational project coordination meeting took place on March 17 and XNUMX. This project is financed by the European Commission within the framework of the program Erasmus+ KA220 Cooperation partnerships in higher education.

Since 2015 this subject has had professional musicians and has recorded a large number of student projects, available at TecnoCampus showroom.

This year they were carried out a total of six music composition and production projects and have been recorded in the TecnoCampus audio studio, inaugurated in 2022. The works are of different styles and sounds. The students were able to experience the complete process of creation and production, from the analysis of a scene, the composition and arrangements, and finally the recording, editing and mixing.

This is the highest accreditation currently available and enables the teacher and researcher to gain access to a professorship at any Spanish university. Antonio José Planells is a permanent professor at TecnoCampus in the Degree in Design and Production of Videogames, where he teaches the subjects of introduction to game design and narrative. He is also the director of the emerging research group "Cultura i Tecnologia Lúdica" (CTL), recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya, and directs, together with professor Víctor Navarro, the "Ludomythologies" research project, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation .

Planells is the author of more than 23 indexed research articles, 11 book chapters and 6 monographs published in renowned publishing houses. His main lines of research are universal arguments in video games, theory of fiction and ludo-fictional worlds, and structural metaphors in analog gaming. According to the data of the Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya corresponding to the year 2021, only 8,25% of teachers in the public university system have this accreditation.

The collaborative short film made throughout this term by the Audiovisual Media Degree has been selected in the prestigious Inheritance Festival in Ireland. The animated short film, called ''Extinction'', has been selected to participate in the Inheritance Festival - Spring edition, which will take place in the cities of Dublin, Belfast, Brighton, Sheffield and Kent.

This audiovisual work was made by the students of the subject Drawing and 2D animation, using the rotoscopy technique. Through this work of animation, a call to attention is made about the danger of the disappearance of the fauna, a cry of alarm for the defense of the environment. 

The challenge overcome by students Emma Comas Vidal, Jordi Pérez i Esclarin, Andrea Reche Pérez, Maria Salvaña Grajera and Enric Tafalla Izuel to access the final was to design a new concept or innovative service that the hotel could offer to its customers. In addition, the proposal had to consider one of these areas: sustainable tourism, destination experiences, health/wellness tourism or new business trends.

Facing this real challenge has allowed the students to put into practice the academic knowledge gained and their entrepreneurial and innovative skills. Now the finalist team, which has already passed a previous phase, will participate in a workshop that will take place between April and May. 

The event will take place over a weekend with workshops taught by experts that will allow students to complete their projects. The work sessions will conclude with a final presentation by all the groups and the announcement of the winning team.

El TecnoCampus organizes the Open Doors during the month of April for future undergraduate and master's students who wish to enroll in university studies in the 23-24 academic year. As for the degree studies, the chosen date is the Saturday, April 22th. This day, in morning and afternoon sessions, will be held informative sessions of 19 degrees and double degrees from the fields of technology, audiovisual, business and health, by the degree coordinators and the testimony of current students. Next year, two new degrees will be launched. In addition to the information session in the classroom, visitors will be able to learn about the laboratories and common spaces where their activity will take place as a student of each degree. The visit can be complemented by registration in one of the four sessions on academic procedures, funding, student services, accommodation options or internationalization planned throughout the day. 

Regarding masters and postgraduates, will be the 13 d'abril when the unit in charge of permanent training, HUB4T, will accompany those interested in the visit to the spaces of the park. Attendees will have theopportunity to learn about the five master's degrees that will be taught in the next academic year, in addition to expanding all the information on the program that most interests them, meeting the academic directors and finding out about the admission process, scholarships and financing, among others.