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UPC and Endesa have signed the renewal of the Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability. This continues the collaboration between them that has been in place for over 20 years. The aim of the Chair is to promote research and innovation projects to respond to challenges in the energy sector.
The Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) and Endesa have signed the renewal of the Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability 2023-2025. Through this Chair (the first of Endesa), since 2005, both institutions have worked together on research and innovation projects to respond to challenges that emerge in the energy sector. In recent years, research has focused on flexibility in the electrical network: the integration into the network of energy from renewable power plants, the increase in energy self-consumption systems in homes and the rollout of charging points for electric vehicles, which are a key element in the energy transition.
In the last three years, the Chair has focused on the development of algorithms to identify the points of the network with the greatest congestion, the network capacity to provide a solution, and network optimisation. This will also make the network capable of absorbing moments of congestion due, for example, to an excess of energy from the renewable power stations at a specific time. This year, research in this field will continue with real data extracted from sensor systems in electrical substations.
The Endesa Red Chair in Energy Innovation and Sustainability has its offices in the Centre for Technological Innovation in Static Converters and Drives (CITCEA) of the UPC, in the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB), and the director is the UPC professor and researcher Andreas Sumper.
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- 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.
