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August 19, 2022The Waste Management Consortium of Vallès Oriental has signed an agreement with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) to promote collaboration in the academic, professional and research area.
The agreement has a duration of four years, which can be extended by successive equal periods (up to a maximum of 8 years). The established objectives involve jointly developing and executing research projects in areas of common interest for both institutions. This collaboration will focus mainly on research, technology development and innovation projects, and industrial doctorates. The search for partners will be promoted to create consortiums that can host the undertaking of research, development and innovation projects and find ways and sources of funding.
This agreement will also promote the organisation of common activities, cooperation in training programmes for research and technical staff from within or outside the Consortium, the organisation of activities in training programmes for bachelor’s, master’s and postgraduate degree students from the university, and the undertaking of master’s degree and bachelor’s degree placements in the Consortium’s facilities.
This agreement, which represents a further step in the collaboration that already exists between these entities, will promote the organisation of joint activities and stimulate the exchange of knowledge and initiatives.
Related Projects
- A team from the Resources Recovery and Environmental Management (R2EM) group, of the Barcelona Research Center in Multiscale Science and Engineering (CCEM), at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), is participating in the MagNa project, which is developing an innovative system to recover magnesium from the brines generated by the seawater desalination process. The recovered materials will be used for industrial purposes and will help reduce Europe’s trade dependence.
- The Center for Industrial Diagnostics (CDIF) and the Energy Processing and Integrated Circuits (EPIC) group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) are participating in FLEXHYBAT (Design and control of flexible hydropower plants by hybridisation with second life batteries), a project exploring the hybridisation of hydropower plants with second-life batteries to improve their flexibility, efficiency and durability.
- The Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) participates in the H2GLASS project, which aims to accelerate decarbonisation in the glass industry through the development and application of the new technologies needed to achieve complete hydrogen (H₂) combustion in glass or steel production facilities.
- A team from the CATMech at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has created a computer system that rapidly calculates the CO₂ balance of agricultural and forestry estates. The project, developed within the framework of Agrixels, is coordinated by the Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC) and applies machine learning, artificial intelligence and satellite data methodologies to estimate the emissions and carbon absorption capacity of a plot of land in just three minutes.
