The startup Winahost, with its operations headquarters at the TecnoCampus, has just closed the first round of financing with great success. This online platform dedicated to the intermediation and online booking of tourist accommodation for owners and based on BigData, gathered a total of 475.000 euros from private investors that are complemented by participatory loans from ENISA/Fons Next Generation of the EU
A short film made by students of the Audiovisual Media Degree at TecnoCampus was screened at the recent Sitges Festival. This is the titled film Los Frustrados, directed by Martí Rovira with the support of students from the subject of Filmmaking Techniques in the second year of the degree.
This work is one of the practices of the subject, which consisted of creating a short following the style of filmmaker Wes Anderson. It was done in just two weeks and very little budget. "About 46 euros to pay for the fake blood and things like that", explains Martí Rovira, who emphasizes that these limitations encouraged them to look for creative solutions for the short.
A new edition of TEX & TECH by Reimagine Textile, the innovation day for the textile sector in Catalonia, will take place in Mataró on October 18, 2023. This event, co-organized by Mataró City Council, TecnoCampus and Eurecat , offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the textile industry and discover emerging trends at the hands of 15 startup finalists for the Reimagine Textile awards, which will be presented during the same day.
The TecnoCampus and Mataró City Council were awarded yesterday at the Biz Barcelona entrepreneurship show by the Barcelona Provincial Council as one of the most active local Reempresa centers in the province of Barcelona. It is the seventh consecutive year that this award has been received. Reempresa is an initiative of the employers' association Cecot with the support of the Diputació de Barcelona.
The TecnoCampus continues to strengthen links with entities and initiatives in the territory. The mayor and president of the TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation, David Bote, and the president of the Valors association, Joan Salicrú, have signed a collaboration agreement between the two entities thanks to which the TecnoCampus will host next Tuesday 26 in September the event celebrating the 20 years of Valors magazine.
The TecnoCampus starts classes for the 25-2023 academic year next Monday, September 2024, and will do so by surpassing for the first time the figure of one thousand students with new access to undergraduate degrees. This milestone is achieved in a context of increased demand for practically all the degrees that can be taken at the center, and the launch of a new degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics and a new double degree, Tourism and Management of Leisure + Marketing and Digital Communities.
A total of 1.113 students, 163 more than in June last year, have secured a place to study a degree at TecnoCampus next year, and they will be able to formalize their university registration over the next few days. It is one of the most positive data of the process of university pre-registration for the month of June, in which a total of 950 students have applied to study at TecnoCampus in first preference (205 more than in the June 2022 pre-registration).
Today, the TecnoCampus made the first public presentation of the "Strategic Plan 2027", approved by the Board of Trustees of the Mataró-Maresme Foundation. This is a document drawn up based on the participation of the various agents of the park in a participatory process started at the end of last year and in which companies, students and other interest groups took part.
The TecnoCampus and Economistes Ban (Col·legi d'Economistes de Catalunya) are organizing this year's Investment Day on July 13, a unique networking event for investors and entrepreneurs. The Investment Day will integrate different activities related to investment processes in startups.
The TecnoCampus has as one of its axes of action in the field of teaching the promotion of international mobilityl. Last Thursday, the delivery of the 6th edition of the beques On The Move, an initiative that has the support of Banco Sabadell and which allows degree students who request it to complete part of their studies abroad. On this occasion, a total of eight grants have been awarded to students of various degrees for stays in countries outside the European Union, a mobility that is less accessible than what is done at European level, where students have grants from the Erasmus program.
IN-MOVE by Railgrup and the TecnoCampus Foundation have signed a collaboration agreement to boost and promote training, innovation and the co-creation of projects linked to sustainable mobility and multimodal logistics. The agreement establishes a minimum collaboration framework of four years to guarantee the development of the projects that are promoted.
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