CIT UPC makes UPC research capabilities available for innovation in companies at meetechSpain 2023
UPC presents its technological innovation potential to fifty companies
May 12, 2023
The 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 Technological Development Centre for Remote Acquisition and Data Processing Systems (SARTI) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) participates in the SEASLAG project, which contributes to measurement and test systems to assess the characteristics of the biomaterials developed in the project, to regenerate marine ecosystems. This material incorporates byproducts from the metal and agrifood industries.
- A team of UPC researchers is working to develop a solution to standardise and improve quality control in fermentation processes in the Agrotech area.
- The research group Barcelona Innovative Transportation (BIT) and the innovation and research laboratory of Barcelona School of Informatics (inLab FIB) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) is taking part in the project eBRT2030 (European Bus Rapid Transit of 2030: electrified, automated, connected).
- Currently, buildings are becoming smart organisms due to a wide range of distributed sensors and software programmes that provide them with a certain degree of intelligence. In this context, SUST(AI)N emerged. Participants in this project include researchers from the Instrumentation, Sensors and Interfaces Group (ISI) and the Components and Systems for Communications Research Group (CSC) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC).
