UPC presents its technological innovation potential to fifty companies
May 12, 2023
The UPC, present in Equiplast
June 2, 2023UPC presents its technological innovation potential to fifty companies
May 12, 2023The UPC, present in Equiplast
June 2, 202322/05/2023
CIT UPC participated in the 2023 edition of meetechSpain, organised by the Spanish Federation of Technology Centres (Fedit) and held on 18 and 19 May in Madrid. The event was attended by over 500 professionals from the Spanish innovation and industrial ecosystem. The capabilities of Spanish technology centres were presented, and challenges and opportunities in research, development and innovation were discussed. In addition, collaboration was promoted between agents of the ecosystem.
The centres, distributed on 28 stands, presented around 200 research development and innovation projects in the “Technological Showroom” of meetechSpain covering various sectors, such as health, agrifood, aeronautics, industry and technologies such as additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence (AI), IoT sensors or blockchain.
During the event, the role of technology centres as catalysts of knowledge transfer and cooperation was discussed. The round tables addressed the challenges and opportunities of the research, development and innovation ecosystem: from the results of the Cervera Technology Transfer Programme to the impact of centres’ activities, their role in industrialisation and economic transformation, the research, development and innovation proposals that increase the country’s competitiveness, and the keys for communicating on innovation. In addition, the promotion of business innovation, an understanding of the economic potential of research, development and innovation and the change in employment profiles are some of the challenges that the sector faces.
Innovative solutions of the UPC and participation in Speaker Corner in meetechSpain
As part of the event, the UPC Technology Centre (CIT UPC) demonstrated the research capability and technological innovation potential of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) in the areas of materials, health, agrotech, advanced production, energy and the environment, chemistry, logistics and mobility, digital transformation, urban development and sustainability and infrastructure.
Some of the projects that were presented were:
- X-ClimPlan: urban heat islands and heat waves. How to adapt our cities to climate change? A methodological tool to significantly improve the resilience of cities to extreme climate change episodes.
- Multifunctional nanocomposite hydrogels for advanced skincare. A new method for producing hydrogels for the treatment of chronic wounds.
- LoRaMesher: Advanced IoT services for LoRa Mesh networks. An open-source library that enables multi-hop and peer-to-peer data routing between IoT devices in a LoRa communication mesh network.
On 18 May, CIT UPC took part in the Speaker Corner of meetechSpain with the talk ‘Twenty-first century cities and innovation’, given by Silvia Chellini in the area of business development.
In addition, a video was presented on the technological capabilities and development and innovation potential of the UPC, including data on the university’s transfer activity.
Related Projects
- The AgroTech research group at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), together with its spin-off Ugiat Technologies, have driven DoblAI, an AI platform that integrates transcription, translation, subtitling and video dubbing into a single workflow. The solution, which uses deep learning technology and cloned or default voice models, is specifically designed for the journalism and communications sector.
- The AgroTech research group at UPC, in collaboration with its spin-off Ugiat Technologies, has developed uPlayer, a new multimedia player concept that enables more intuitive video navigation and viewing, intelligently enhancing the user experience, especially on YouTube and other platforms, by integrating as a plugin or advanced player.
- The Image and Video Processing Group (GPI), part of the IDEAI-UPC research group, and the Digital Culture and Creative Technologies Research Group (DiCode) from the Image Processing and Multimedia Technology Center (CITM) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), have co-organised the AI and Music Festival (S+T+ARTS) together with Sónar+D and Betevé, to explore the creative use of artificial intelligence in music.
- The Visualisation, Virtual Reality and Graphic Interaction Research Group (ViRVIG) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) has participated in the XR4ED project, an initiative that connects the educational technology (EdTech) and Extended Reality (XR) sectors, with the aim of transforming learning and training across Europe.
