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

This competition is an educational project that allows engineering students and other degrees to be part of a real professional experience. Formula Student represents a master's degree at a higher level in the automotive sector. Thanks to the competition, the students manage to apply the knowledge they have acquired in practical situations and learn new skills through their actions.

In addition, the Formula Student provides real experience in the design, construction and negotiations that are common in the automotive industry. Likewise, it also teaches students to work in a team, under pressure and with strict deadlines, but at the same time with freedom and flexibility, so that students can express their creativity and ingenuity.

The TecnoCampus MotorSports team (TCM MotorSports) emerged as part of a student's desire to create new horizons. "We came out of almost two years of constant quarantines, with many dead hours at home and a lack of goals, so we set ourselves the task of creating something new," explains Team-Leader and Sponsor Manager Marc García-Penche Chacón . "There were several ideas that came up these days, the proposals related to aerospace engineering initially dominated the debate, but then we discovered the existence of the Student Formula, which presented itself as an opportunity to give place to this creative task. at the same time that we integrated the TecnoCampus community into this", he adds.

"Thanks to the amount ofacademic offers offered by the TecnoCampus, we can count on people from many of the degrees," says García-Penche. "We are currently 65 students from 8 different grades", he comments. Specifically, the students who participate in the project belong to the Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Degree in Industrial and Automatic Electronic Engineering, Degree in Industrial Organization Engineering, Degree in IT Management and Information Systems Engineering, Degree in Administration Administration Companies and Innovation Management, Degree in Audiovisual Media, Degree in Marketing and Digital Communities and the Degree in Logistics and Maritime Business. "Each student contributes the knowledge of their degree to the project, making it a unique and multidisciplinary project," he concludes.

The program Start Circular, financed by the Provincial Council of Barcelona and coordinated by the area of ​​Transfer, Innovation and Enterprise with the support of the Chair of Circular Economy and Sustainability at TecnoCampus, it is a vertical program in circular economy. Your goal is make companies and entrepreneurs aware of the circular economy and the principles that govern it, and accompany them in its implementation, through a set of training sessions, webinars and personalized advice.

The program is part of the strategy of the city of Mataró for encourage the transition towards a circular economy. Start Circular complements the high performance program for entrepreneurs Innoempren, as the first provides knowledge in circularity, and the second lays the foundations necessary to understand how businesses are defined and work. Start Circular began during the month of October 2022 with an inaugural session given by the Chair and addressed to companies, under the principle that the companies of the future will be sustainable or they will not be".

To date, six sessions have been held, of around two hours each, where the concept of the circular economy, business models, non-financial reports, institutional marketing, metrics have been discussed and other aspects. The Chair provides the technical support and knowledge necessary for the design and teaching of the training program, and for the advice of companies and entrepreneurs who want to incorporate circularity into their business.

This is the first edition of the program, which will be developed during the year 2023 with webinars, support and advice to companies, circular entrepreneurship programs and others. The program will last until the end of the school year. 

In the framework of his bet on promoting technological vocations, TecnoCampus has just launched a new initiative aimed at secondary schools, the Industry 4.0 awards. These are awards that consist of two categories (training cycles and high school), with an endowment of 500 euros each for the winner.

The works or projects must meet the following requirements:

• A) They must be related to the concept of Industry 4.0 or Intelligent Manufacturing. Specifically, they must be framed in one of the following thematic areas: - Cyber-physical systems - Internet of Things - Virtual reality - Augmented reality - Advanced and collaborative robotics - Edge computing - Cloud computing - Digital Twins - Cyber- security - Connectivity and mobility - Artificial intelligence - Business Intelligence - Big Data - Additive manufacturing - Predictive maintenance - Smart product - Smart logistics - Sustainable manufacturing - Energy management - Circular economy - Ethics applied to technology.
• B) They must have the nature of research work of Baccalaureate or CFGS Final Project.
  
  In the case of baccalaureate papers, they can be submitted now, while those for training courses can be submitted from May 15 to June 2.

The eight technology startups chosen are Biel Glasses, Cactus, Cocopool, Coresys Health, Eholo, Flappin, Winahost and Wipass, focused on the fields and/or technologies of fintech, artificial intelligence, IOT, Big Data, mobile , health and IT.

All of them will enjoy a space at the TecnoCampus stand, on March 1 and 2, to exhibit their innovations and will have the possibility to connect with international investors and find partners and customers.

La HoMER Network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception) gathers one international network of researchers committed to researching public and audience histories, cinematographic exhibition and reception from international and multidisciplinary perspectives, with the aim of promoting the understanding of these phenomena.

Since 2004, this network organizes one every year international conference that in this next edition will take place at the TecnoCampus from July 4 to 7. The aim of this new edition is to expand the academic field of the new history of cinema to a multiplicity of perspectives encouraging a better understanding of the dynamics of power relations between the peripheries and the metropolises, exploring the positionings, borders, limits and geographical, social, cultural and linguistic relations.

The general director of Strategy and Development of Renfe, Manel Villalante, accompanied by the mayor of Mataró, David Bote, and the general director of the TecnoCampus Foundation, Lluís Checa, visited this morning the Antena TrenLab facilities, where this week begins a complete six-month acceleration program of innovative projects at the service of mobility.

Villalante, Bote and Checa have toured the facilities of the Antena TrenLab space that are already prepared to host the various startups that, last November, were winners of the first Antena TrenLab awards. This space constitutes Renfe's first antenna or meeting point for open innovation and entrepreneurship, with an important social and educational character for the transmission of all the knowledge and values ​​generated.

With this first antenna, Renfe, in collaboration with different local and regional entities, has started the creation of a national network of TrenLab Antennas. In this context, entrepreneurs will have experts and specialized mentors who will accompany them in the growth of their solution, not only for the railway sector, but with impact in the field of mobility and, in this case, in the Maresme region.

This initiative responds to Renfe's desire to continue betting on the creation of new knowledge, with the aim of promoting the creation of innovative solutions that contribute to the digital transformation of the railway company. This purpose is shared by the other two entities that are part of the first TrenLab antenna, the Mataró City Council and the TecnoCampus, to which is added the creation of local employment and the involvement of the citizens of the region in the creation of new models of mobility and values ​​aimed at environmental improvements associated with transporte.

With the start of the startup acceleration program, also from today and throughout 2023, a set of activities will be developed to involve local and regional entities in the project, which will allow greater permeability of the advances to be achieved in the field of mobility and transporte, incorporating more actors in the innovation ecosystem.

With an allocation of 150.000 euros per edition, the call aims to promote innovative solutions that solve the challenges of the railway sector. Each year, four entrepreneurial projects are chosen to enter a six-month acceleration program that includes the possibility of testing the solution in the territory of Mataró and the Maresme. This initiative stems from Renfe's experience with the start-up accelerator TrenLab where during the four calls, a total of 15 startups were accelerated, of which 4 were Catalan, a figure that represents that 26% of the impulse is born and activated in Catalonia.

Selected challenges and startups:

• Challenge Smarts Railway Station, designed to promote technological solutions at stations that allow Renfe Rodalies customers to be offered more valuable information about the surroundings of their journeys. Selected project: CACTUS. The project proposes a network of IoT devices and a sustainable technological platform with the ability to provide real-time information of interest to passengers such as environmental characteristics (CO2, temperature, humidity, PMs to determine air quality, VOC... ), occupancy of trains and their real-time position that provide valuable information to both the service operator and users.
• Customer Happiness Challenge, aimed at the search for startups that help to improve constant interaction with the customer and allow improvements to be implemented in the service and in the daily operations of Renfe Rodalies. Selected project: WIPASS. Wipass proposes to unify digitization and accompany the user from the beginning to the end of their journey, offering a unique and connected experience with Renfe. And, at the same time, Renfe will be able to obtain relevant information about the experience, interaction and satisfaction of passengers, once the service ends, as well as offer valuable information about the environment of their journeys, such as outstanding offers according to their destination, tourist information around and even offer other services. In addition, during the journey, the user will be able to receive information of interest such as deficiencies, data on the destination or arrival time through push notifications without the need to download an application.
• Challenge 3Drail Solutions to explore how to introduce 3D printing technology for adoption in the rail sector as a competitive and sustainable alternative to traditional manufacturing methods. Selected project: DRUKATT. It is an integration project of all the necessary actors so that the adoption of technology is the most adjusted to the needs of the company, its services and the territory, and in the shortest possible time, it has presented a innovative project in the manufacture of industrial spare parts through design and additive manufacturing in the shortest possible time. It wants to integrate all the necessary actors through training and workshops that allow generating a learning process in relation to 3D printing.
• Challenge Keep it open!, for disruptive startups that develop solutions not yet widely implemented in the rail sector based on new technologies (metaverse, virtual reality, robotics, etc.) or trends (quantum computing, drones, etc.). Challenge selected: HYPERVISOUL. It proposes a traffic management system for connected vehicles to operate fleets of automated light rail vehicles on rural railway lines in order to operate on-demand transporte services for passengers and goods.

In Maresme there are 25 municipalities with less than 20.000 inhabitants. They concentrate 6.000 companies and more than 17.000 self-employed people. With the aim of advising and accompanying them in the digital transformation process, PIMEC is deploying a network of offices throughout the province of Barcelona. The TecnoCampus will be the seat of the Mataró Rural Pyme Accelerator Office.

From this new office, personalized advice will be offered to SMEs and the self-employed, both in person and virtually. And the fact is that digital transformation is no longer a future challenge.

The Accelerated Pyme Rural Offices Program is an initiative of PIMEC and the Provincial Council of Barcelona and has the support of Red.es.

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Biel Glasses are smart glasses that improve the mobility, autonomy and quality of life of visually impaired people. They work by recognizing and pointing out obstacles: changes in height to the ground, street crossings and traffic lights, among others. The device also improves vision by adapting lighting and even being able to zoom; all this making the most of the visual rest of each user through the use of mixed reality. The glasses combine an artificial intelligence system with robotic technology to process the images captured by the lenses, interpret scenarios and generate visual stimuli that the user can interpret despite limited visual capabilities.

This device is useful for pathologies that involve loss of peripheral vision and will allow many users with reduced visibility to move more independently thanks to an Augmented Reality system. They tell the user where the different obstacles are that he doesn't see and can even constitute a threat to his integrity.

For the benefits to be maximum, the product must be adapted by opticians to the specific needs of each user. The Biel Glasses are not called that by chance: the project in which Panasonic is now involved was born from the hand of Biel, a Catalan boy born with visual impairment whose parents, Constanza Lucero and Jaume Puig, worked together to, as they themselves explain, "to create advanced and affordable solutions to adapt the world to their eyes". Now, in the same way that they helped their son, they want to help many other people in a similar situation. 

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The TecnoCampus was the scene on Monday, December 19 of the presentation of the ThinkIn 3D additive manufacturing accelerator, an event attended by a hundred people, many of them entrepreneurs interested in this technology. The general director of the TecnoCampus, Josep Lluís Checa, was in charge of opening the meeting. In his speech, Checa emphasized that ThinkIn3D "is an infrastructure that facilitates the support of companies for the adoption of 3D printing technology, especially in startups, SMEs and micro-SMEs".

Incubator is a 700 m2 space within the TecnoCampus that will be available from March and will have versatile and flexible equipment for different applicationss. Checa recalled that ThinkIn3D was conceived following a "T-shaped" model, because it will have a very clear vertical in applications in the field of health and people's well-being, but also a horizontal vision that aims to reach companies of the other sectors".

This incubator, born as an alliance between different entities, seeks to mobilize resources that have a real impact, both on people and in the territorial contextl. In this sense, the director of the technological park recalled that additive manufacturing, which we informally know as 3D printing, is a disruptive technology because "it allows us to approach different business models, with different conceptualization and design criteria and with much of route". In fact, Checa has recalled that a study developed in the United States between 2016 and 2020 places additive manufacturing in the ninth position in the ranking of the ten technologies with the highest number of patents. A network of high-tech incubators.

For his part, José Luis Bonet, president of the INCYDE Foundation, has been in charge of contextualizing ThinkIn3D as a key piece within a very rich ecosystem of high-tech incubators. And it is that there are currently 23 incubators in Spain, 13 of which are already in operation to promote innovation in micro-SMEs. "It is the largest network of high-tech incubators in Europe, and our goals are ambitious: by 2025 we will have incubated a total of 2.500 technology-based companies that will have created 45.000 direct jobs in Spanish territory" , points out Bonet.

The INCYDE Foundation is the result of the union of all the Spanish Chambers of Commerce and aims to encourage the creation and consolidation of companies. In fact, since the year 2000, INCYDE has invested more than 330 million euros in supporting entrepreneurs and companies throughout the territory betting on innovation and training as central tools. During his speech, Bonet referred to the 3Ts that become keys to success in moments of serious crisis like the current one: "people, companies, institutions and also countries that want to succeed must use work, talent and tenacity, and in the current context I would add the T of transformation”. A bet for all sectors

The presentation event also included a space for reflection and learning from the director of the Center for Innovation in Cities, Esteve Almirall. During his speech, Almirall emphasized the importance of companies being able to "ride the different waves of technological change, and for this reason it is necessary to pay attention to technical progress and also to the adoption processes of these disruptions by companies". According to the ESADE professor, "if the adoption of a disruption occurs, it means that the market test exists, because otherwise companies would not adopt it, and the fact that new technological possibilities appear in a field means that this area has a long way to go.”

Almirall, who has extensive experience in the business IT sector, recalled that "many times, innovation policies focus on creating and accelerating companies or pushing specific sectors, but there is another way to do it- which can benefit many more sectors: betting on general-use technologies such as artificial intelligence, 3D printing, the cloud, etc.”. In this sense, Almirall has firmly stated that "betting on this type of general technology means betting on all sectors, and the ThinkIn3D is a tool to enable this to happen in the field of additive manufacturing".

Finally, David Bote, mayor of Mataró, was in charge of closing the event. Bote recalled that the "TecnoCampus brings talent and innovation, two bets that are part of the DNA of the city of Mataró, and it does so by supporting internationalization, promoting training to prepare for the future and putting at the service of companies tools to promote their competitiveness". A good example of this is the launch of ThinkIn3D, which in the words of the mayor of Mataró "is a transformative project that guarantees the future of our city due to its ability to help innovation within the economic fabric of territory".

El Start for Future program) organized on November 23 and 24 the first Co-Creation Summit, at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich (Germany). The event brought together students, startups, universities, incubators, companies and local and regional governments, to generate co-creation opportunities and connect European innovation ecosystems. The activity had the participation of Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, who delved into the New Innovation Agenda for Europe. Likewise, large corporations such as Bosch and Siemens, innovation hubs and other prominent actors were present.

On behalf of the TecnoCampus, Anahí Moyano, head of University Entrepreneurship, and the five members of the On Rails startup, with the White Jacket solution: Aitor Garcia, Albert Loma, Eric Fradera and Jan Cano, students of the double degree in Computer Science and Video Games at the TecnoCampus, and Xavier Torino, alumni of Administration and Business Management at Pompeu Fabra University. On Rails, recent winner of the Creative University Award, is currently co-incubated by TecnoCampus (incubator and Reimagine Textile program) and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship in Germany. White Jacket is an innovative technological solution in the form of a wearable for blind or severely visually impaired people.

During the event, they presented their pitch in the event's main forum and had a booth that allowed them to show off the vest prototype and meet with investors, suppliers, corporations and other startups, as well as participate in workshops and a one-on-one coaching session with the University of Ghent (Belgium).

About the experience they had, Aitor Garcia comments: "Enjoying this international vision completely changed the way we approached and sized our project; it allowed us to expand our horizons and our scope." Anahí Moyano indicated that TecnoCampus is currently incubating five startups that are part of the Start for Future Program: the local On Rails, Cänma and Operantmerge, in addition to Polymer 01, from Bulgaria, and RongoDesign, from Romania, which was also present at the event and was a finalist in the Strascheg Awards. For Moyano, "belonging to this European alliance allows us to internationalize our teams and bring them closer to markets of interest. In addition, it positions us as a reference incubation center thanks to the aggregate value of our verticals, the services of softlanding that we offer and TecnoCampus' firm commitment to entrepreneurship and innovation".

Start for Future brings together more than 30 universities and allied entities and with the Summit has begun the path to becoming a European Cooperative Society. The Summit was organized by Start for Future Alliance together with EIT HEI Initiative and EIT Urban Mobility.

On Wednesday, November 30, the TecnoCampus hosted a new edition of the Matinal de la Reempresa; a morning of activities and conferences aimed at entrepreneurs looking to sell their company and entrepreneurs looking to take over a business that is already in operation.

The event, which brought together around fifty businessmen and entrepreneurs, was jointly coordinated with the local points of Reempresa de Mataró, Pineda de Mar and del Masnou through the collaboration maintained by Cecot and the Diputació de Barcelona to bring Reempresa to the entire demarcation of Barcelona.

Sergio Morales, Deputy Mayor and Councilor for Employment and Business, Entrepreneurship, Social Economy, Industry and Industrial Estates of Mataró City Council; Roger Pumares, Head of Service of Productive Fabrics of the Management of Economic Promotion and Employment Services of the Provincial Council of Barcelona; i Laura Sallent, director of the Center for Re-employment of Catalonia participated in the welcome ceremony of the morning.

The day was also attended by several technicians and technicians from the different attention points participating in the morning and other institutional representatives of the territory, as well as Roser Moré, president of FAGEM, business representative of Reempresa al Maresme and Maria Llarás, councilor of Economic promotion of Masnou. Sergi Morales highlighted the added value of Reempresa, emphasizing that "it is a service that helps safeguard jobs in the territory and helps to boost the economy". On the other hand, Roger Pumares thanked the work done by Reempresa during these years and emphasized that "Reempresa is a service for all types of companies, since its objective is to promote and be able to help the buying and selling of companies ". He also mentioned that "the service offered by Reempresa goes beyond the buying and selling process itself because it helps to focus the efforts of the entrepreneurial person and offers an accompanying service to both parties, both to business people who want to sell a business and to entrepreneurial people who want to start a new project". On the other hand, Laura Sallent highlighted these ten years of collaboration with the Diputació de Barcelona and all the people behind this great project, as well as the good results of Reempresa. He also emphasized that "a success story is not just the sale of a company. A case of success is, among other things, one or more safeguarded jobs and the growth of the market”.

The event was structured in several activities: two conferences with the aim of advising those interested in the program, a elevator pitch from where different people looking to sell their business were able to present their company to different entrepreneurs and a matching space, where the participants had 30 minutes to be able to interview different transferors who were looking to sell their business. The aim of this last activity was to be able to bring people interested in restarting a business with others who were looking to transfer it so that they could get to know each other and the latter could explain first hand the operation and management of their company.

Reempresa is the buying and selling market for small and medium-sized companies in Catalonia. An initiative of the employers' association Cecot and Self-Employment with the support of the Provincial Council of Barcelona. Since its launch, Reempresa has experienced great growth, managing to safeguard more than two companies a day on average in Catalonia.

The agreement signed last November 30 also includes the promotion of a university prize, which will be awarded on the Night of Sports, which will be celebrated next January, and the creation of six university scholarships for students who are high performance athletes. The signing brought together representatives of sports clubs and organizations with the mayor and president of the TecnoCampus Foundation, David Bote; the Councilor for Sports, Beatriz Delgado; and the general director of the TecnoCampus, Josep Lluís Checa

The clubs joining the initiative in the 2022-2023 academic year are Club Aikido Mataró, CB Maresme Boet Mataró, Club Escalada Mataró "Bulder Planet", Rowing Club Mataró, Eurofitness Sorrall, Federació Catalana de Vela, CE Futsal Mataró Societat de Pesca and Mataró Underwater Activities (SPAS), Espai Laru, Mataró Rugby Club and Mataró Swimming Centre.

One more year you can enjoy sport with a wide range of offers and advantages in order to promote the importance of health, physical activity and leisure within the TecnoCampus university community.

Scholarship students and their families filled the Graduation Hall in an event in which the mayor of Mataró and president of TecnoCampus took part, David Bote; the general director of the TecnoCampus, Josep Lluís Checa; the deputy vice-chancellor to the chancellor of Pompeu Fabra University, David Sancho; and the president of the board of directors of Aquahotel, Joaquim Pons. All of them have emphasized that the scholarships reward the effort made in the pre-university stage and in the first year of the University, and demonstrate the will of recho excellence by companies and institutions. The scholarships consist of a bonus on the tuition fee.

The students recognized with a Talent scholarship are:

• Alex Garuz Lanau (Degree in Computer Engineering, Management and Information Systems).
• Jaume Gibert Rangel (Degree in Industrial and Automatic Electronic Engineering).
• Judith Carlota Velasco (Graduate in Audiovisual Media).
• Laia Benages Gómez (Graduate in Video Game Design and Production).
• Martí Sanchez Rulo (Double Degree in Computer Management and Information Systems/ Degree in Video Game Design and Production).
• Miriam Troya Font (Degree in Business Administration and Innovation Management).
• Ana Rebull Carrasco (Double Degree in Tourism and Leisure Management / Degree in Business Administration and Innovation Management).
• Carla Gazquez Sahuquillo (Graduate in Marketing and Digital Communities).
• Oscar Blanco Marin (Degree in Logistics and Maritime Business).
• Marta Montiel Gómez (Montiel Gómez, Marta).
• Arnau Vidal i Herrera (Double Degree in Business Administration and Innovation Management / Degree in Marketing and Digital Communities).
• Marc Escobar Castro (Graduate in Nursing).
• Arnau Navarro Ruiz (Graduate in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences).
• Marta Tintoré Piera (Double Degree Degree in Physiotherapy / Degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences).
• Unai Gimeno-Bayon Guinart (Degree in Physiotherapy).

The students recognized with a University-Company scholarship are:

• Adelaida Vilaró Müller.
• Carla Serrat Anaya.

TecnoChallenge brought together nearly 50 undergraduate and master's students from various degrees. In a preliminary session, which took place on November 11, ten multidisciplinary teams were formed, whose members met for the first time and were able to choose together the challenge they would work on during the weekend event of November 19 and 20.

The teams developed the solutions following the Design Thinking methodology, to present them on Sunday with a pitch in front of the judges of each challenge. The winning teams were:

• Company challenge: Fénix team, made up of David Alfaro and Santi Aymerich, together with Linghao Feng and Kenny Wang.
• Startup challenge: Together Safer team, formed by Victor Antràs, Sebastian Reyes, Ian Roche and Roger Vidal.
• University challenge: team Jamale, with Mario Aldabó, Jaime Blanco, Letizia Quer and Albert Verdaguer as members.
  
  Sebastian Reyes, Master's student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, commented on the event: "It was an enriching experience, which we enjoyed as a team and which allowed us to network and motivate ourselves more." For his part, Mario Aldabó, students of the Degree in Business Administration and Innovation Management with teaching in English, pointed out: "The event will help us on the way to being professionals of the future."
  
  Daniel Ayala, from Ambisort emphasized: "As an entrepreneur it has been very enriching to participate in the TecnoChallenge and to see the great talent that is rising and how they propose solutions to the proposed challenges." The days were animated by the expert Ana Rodera, with Javier Pérez and Borja Fernández from Evoluciona. The event was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Provincial Council of Barcelona, ​​the Ajuntament de Mataró and the Start for Future European Program.
  
  Each of the teams won 500 euros and the possibility to implement their solution together with the masters of the challenges, , or from the TecnoCampus pre-incubator. The days were animated by the expert Ana Rodera, with Javier Pérez and Borja Fernández from Evoluciona. The event was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Provincial Council of Barcelona, ​​the Ajuntament de Mataró and the Start for Future European Program.

The Red Bank is a cultural and peaceful prevention, information and awareness project against gender violence and femicide. Its aim is to make people who see it think, a kind of wake-up call to continue talking about it every day of the year, not just on November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women , and March 8, International Women's Day.

It is part of an awareness campaign against the abuse of women that was born in 2016 in Italy on the initiative of the activist Tina Magenta. The installation of this bench in the TecnoCampus means a gesture of denunciation against the constant violence that women receive everywhere, and wants to highlight the attention that all victims deserve, as well as make a call of protest against a social plague that does not stop He has been placed in multiple institutions, not only universities.

In Catalonia, the UB and the UPF have placed several red banks. The UPF has placed one on each campus. The color red is associated with the first women's demonstration against femicide that took place in 2012 in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico). On that occasion, the demonstrators exhibited red shoes to symbolize the victims of gender violence. This campaign has had a great impact especially in Italy and Argentina, but also in Mexico, Austria, Australia, Ecuador, etc. The bench bears the phrase "When I go out into the street I don't want to be brave, I want to be free", which was chosen from among several proposals by the members of the TecnoCampus Equality Commission.

La Night of Entrepreneurship, held at the TecnoCampus, brought together around 300 people to attend the presentation of the Creatic awards and, as a novelty, the first edition of the Antena TrenLab awards. A total of seven projects were recognized during the evening: three corresponding to the Creatic awards and four to the Antena TrenLab, which will allow their promoters to enjoy financial aid and business acceleration programs to bring their solutions to market.

Creative Awards:

• Award for the best business initiative in the field of technology and innovation (12.000 euros and subsidized stay in the TecnoCampus incubator for one year): Coresys Health, which works on the development and manufacture of monitors for the detection of sepsis in hospitalized patients. Presented by: James Marugg and Erik Weber Jensen.
• Prize for the best project with social impact (6.000 euros and subsidized stay in the TecnoCampus incubator for one year): Hoop Diabetes, a project focused on the design of medical devices to improve the quality of life of people with diabetes. Presented by: David Reyes and Axel Rico.
• Prize for the best initiative led by women (6.000 euros and stay in the TecnoCampus incubator for one year): Sweanty , a start up that offers a solution to prevent dehydration in athletes by analyzing sweat. Presented by: Anna Llorella and Laura Ortega.

Additionally, two projects submitted by students were recognized. The award for university entrepreneurship went to Albert Loma, Aitor Garcia, Jan Cano and Eric Fradera, for the White Jacket project, an innovative technological solution in the form of a wearable for blind or visually impaired people. The best entrepreneurial project in the field of professional training went to the students Carol Lozano, Elsa Mena and Maria Molleví, from the Pia Santa Anna School, for the Iberia Discovery project, a video game with a historical theme of Spain about events that took place between the years 1875 and 1975, applying the gamification to learning 

Antena TrenLab awards:

The awards that respond to the three operational challenges are endowed with €40000 each, and the disruptive challenge with €30.000. Thanks to this endowment, the four companies will participate in a six-month acceleration program that includes the possibility of testing the solution in the territory of Mataró and the Maresme.

• "Smart Railway Station" Operational Challenge CACTUS, For a proposed network of IoT devices and a sustainable technology platform with the ability to provide real-time information of interest to passengers. Presented by: Israel Blanco
• "Customer Happiness" Operational Challenge Wipass, proposes to unify digitization and accompany the user from the beginning to the end of their journey, offering a unique and connected experience with Renfe. And, at the same time, Renfe will be able to obtain relevant information about the experience, interaction and satisfaction of passengers, once the service ends. Presented by: Mariam Ayadi.
• “3D Rail” Operational Challenge Drukatt, which has presented an innovative project in the manufacture of industrial spare parts through design and additive manufacturing, training and integrating the professionals of the territory. Presented by: Israel Arias.
• Disruptive Challenge “Keep it Open!”Hypervisoul proposes to adapt its system of  traffic management to operate fleets of light and automated vehicles on rural rail lines and create on-demand transporte services for commuters-  Presented by: José Triano Romero

The Antena TrenLab project and awards are an initiative of Renfe, Mataró City Council and TecnoCampus. The Creatic awards, an initiative of the TecnoCampus and the Mataró City Council, also have the support of several companies and institutions, among which we should highlight those who act as patrons: Bytemaster, Esed, Fyr Legal, Minoryx, Palobiofarma and Derecho.com In addition to the companies that act as patrons, the Diputació de Barcelona, ​​the Generalitat de Catalunya, through the Secretariat of Digital Policies and the Agency for the Competitiveness of the Company ACCIÓ support the initiative. Also collaborating are the Mataró and Maresme New Information and Communication Technology Business Group (GENTIC), the Independent Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Catalonia (AIJEC), EURECAT, the Federation of Business Associations and Guilds del Maresme (FAGEM), the Associació Don't un impuls, the Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, ​​BANC and PIMEC. It also has the support of the Start For Future European program, promoted by EIT Manufacturing&Urban Mobility.

From this week, you can check the online version of the report for the 2021-2022 academic year, which collects the most relevant data and facts from the past year.

The document reviews the areas of teaching, research, knowledge transfer, internationalization, business creation or support programs for the productive fabric in which the TecnoCampus participates.

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The TecnoCampus and the Mataró City Council were awarded on October 9 at the Biz Barcelona entrepreneurship show by the Diputació de Barcelona as one of the most active local Reempresa centers in the province of Barcelona, prize that has been repeated in the six previous editions of the program. Reempresa is an initiative of the employers' association Cecot with the support of the Diputació de Barcelona.

The councilor for Employment and Business and second deputy mayor of Mataró City Council, Sergio Morales, was in charge of receiving the recognition. Since its launch in 2012, the TecnoCampus Re-enterprise center has achieved 115 cases of "successful re-enterprises" (assignments or transfers of businesses) that have generated an induced investment of €5.192.226 and have safeguarded 330 jobs.

To date, this service point has advised 354 businesses whose owners wanted to transfer it to an entrepreneur, 584 "re-entrepreneurs" or people interested in acquiring a business have been assisted and 580 negotiation processes have been generated . The aim of the program is to promote and structure the transfer of companies as a way to grow economic activity, and thus avoid the closure of economically viable businesses and the destruction of employment in the municipalities of the county.

The program offers people who want to sell their business, free of charge, individual advice for the preparation of the Transfer Plan, as well as advice throughout the process of the transfer of the company: from the first meeting of the presentation of the parties to the signing of the contract of sale, going through the phases of negotiation and mediation to reach an agreement. People who have the project to "restart" a company or business that is already in operation, are offered a portfolio of businesses in transmission and are helped to make the viability or "Restart" plan of a business that they are interested

The master's degree is aimed at professionals who want to achieve a profile of information technology integrator in management, planning and urban engineering and acquire practice based on experiences of companies in the service sector in cities.

The congress will have the challenge of reimagining and reinventing the city to achieve these changes that are necessary to make in our cities and is aimed at engineering professionals who develop their activity at the local level, municipal managers, companies who work in the provision of municipal services, to the political representatives of local administrations and to all those interested in improving the efficiency of municipal management through engineering

This year, the main axes of the congress will be:

1. Imagine new ways of designing the city. The pandemic and periods of confinement have shaken the concept of the city that we had until now.

With presentations such as that of Lior Steinberg, Co-Founder & Urban Planner @Humankind, Xavier Matilla, Chief Architect at Barcelona City Council, representatives of theMetropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona (AMB) and representatives of theAssociation of municipalities for Mobilitat i el Transport Urbà (AMTU).

2. Think about how to improve and make life easy for citizens. The city is the place where there is social interaction, where it is easier for things to happen, and it is the social space par excellence. Round table with Ramon Gras, science researcher of the cities of theharvard university, Vincent Guallart, urban architect with important international projects and Ricard Font, general manager of BIMSA, principal execution agent for works in the city of Barcelona. The moderator will be Oriol Altisench, mobility manager of theAjuntament de Barcelona.

Free registration here.

The XXVIII Spanish Universities Research Conferences were held in Valencia from November 9 to 11 and brought together in person the main people responsible for scientific policy and the management of research, the transfer and innovation of Spanish universities.

On the first day of the conference, TecnoCampus had the opportunity to participate as a speaker in the parallel session of the OTRI Network "Open innovation business initiatives: a challenge for OTRIs", presenting the TecnoCampus ecosystem and the project AntenaTrenLab as an outstanding case of open innovation. The presentation was made by the general director of the TecnoCampus, Josep Lluís Checa, and by Renfe's director of innovation, Maria Pilar Górriz.