The news of the Park

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From 14 to 18 October 2024, the UAB organises the second edition of its Innovation Week to open up to the surrounding organisations, showcase its innovation ecosystem and bring the technologies and innovative knowledge generated on campus closer to society.

The objective of Innovation Week is to make visible the UAB's commitment to innovation from the perspective of different agents, sectors and groups, as well as to connect entrepreneurs with the business network, the network of public-private investors and knowledge centres. 

Its programme offer different spaces, activities and themes, and will generate meeting and relationship spaces between the UAB community, start-ups, companies and investors. Some of the activities are:

• Innovation Fair
• Showcase of the network of labs located in the Vallès regions
• Eines awards
• Culture, sustainability and new technologies
• Visits to campus centres and laboratories
• Science and entrepreneurship for women

More information can be found on the Innovation Week website.

Place: Different spaces of the UAB campus

Date: Monday 14, October2024 - 09:00h

End date: Friday 18, October2024 - 14:00h

Organiser: UAB Research Park

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Sara Marañón holds a PhD in Ecology and her research focuses on the effects of global change and the disturbances caused to ecosystems. At the UAB Science Carriage Expert's Seat, she will converse with passengers on regenerative agriculture, which aims to replenish the soil and guarantee that it has enough organic material and carbon to help it continue to be fertile land. Regenerative agriculture is based on the basic pillars of agriculture: soil and its quality, and how this relates to its capacity to store or release CO2.

The journey will begin at 10:42 a.m. on the FGC train travelling from the Universitat Autònoma to the Plaça Catalunya station.

Place: FGC Universitat Autònoma station

Date: Thursday 24, October2024 - 10:42h

Organiser: UAB and FGC

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The leading congress in advanced tech startups, Barcelona Deep Tech Summit, is celebrating its third edition on November 5th, 6th, and 7th, integrated within the Smart City World Congress (SCEWC) at the Fira Gran Via. The synergy is strategic since it integrates the advanced technologies born in universities and research centres with the great challenges that cities face. Moreover, both axes of innovation and sustainability are shared, solutions for the future are brought closer to businesses, and the event focused on startups and spin-offs acquires a more international character.

The Barcelona Deep Tech Summit will focus on searching for solutions for four great global challenges: energetic transition and sustainability, industry 4.0 and mobility, digital health, and space. The congress will host expert sessions on these main goals and will announce them during the following months on their website. 

Even more, the startup congress Deep Tech is adding five strategic partners: Aldea Ventures, IESE Business School, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Mobile World Capital Barcelona, and Tech Barcelona, which will bring their knowledge and ecosystem to enhance the event's proposal and unify efforts in positioning Deep Tech as a strategic sector in the near future. Barcelona is already a European reference for deep tech startups, making up the biggest number, 13%, of the total number of businesses of this kind in the city, according to the consulting firm Deal Room.

Deep-tech startups have gone up by 10% in Catalonia, getting to 320 throughout the territory, according to the latest report by ACCIÓ. The same document highlights that, at this moment, they currently employ more than 2.300 people, and, according to the latest data, the volume of investment attracted by these start-ups reached €183 million in 2022.

In the new edition of the Summit, the investor community, as well as great corporations, will have a strategic role since deep tech start-ups require greater capital volume and investment, and the event is key to connecting with big businesses that want to incorporate their proposals into their businesses.

Barcelona Activa and five Catalan universities (UB, UAB, UPC, UPC and UOC) promote this event, as it is the epicentre of the deep-tech and scientific entrepreneurial ecosystem. They do so via a joint initiative called Barcelona Deep Tech Node, and the Barcelona Deep Tech Summit has the institutional support of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Place: Fira Gran Via

Date: Tuesday 5, November2024 - 09:00h

End date: Thursday 7, November2024 - 17:00h