The news of the Park

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On September 16th and 18th, come to Marimon Tower at Caldes de Montbui for an Ideas Generation Workshop with Agritech. On this occasion, the challenge is centred around the rise of the competitiveness of Catalan businesses through the market launch and adoption of new technologies linked to increasing the efficacy of input usage, including digitalization, the efficient use of energy for the primary sector, and the valuation of subproducts, promoting the circularity of processes.

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Place: Marimon Tower, Caldes de Montbui

Date: Monday 16, September2024 - 10:00h

End date: Wednesday 18, September2024 - 14:00h

Organiser: Parc de Recerca UAB, Agritech

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Distinkt will be the protagonist of the next session of the Entrepreneur's Corner, where the founders will share with the companies and entrepreneurs of the UAB campus their valuable experiences in key aspects of their entrepreneurial process. During the session, they will discuss topics such as the formation of the founding team and the keys to building a solid base, strategies for adapting the laboratory space and effectively managing the budget, experiences with the first financing, and the link with the North American market.

Distinkt is dedicated to the commercialisation and generation of high-security fluorescent inks based on nanotechnology. Its solution consists of a powder containing nano and micro particles that change colour or fluoresce when irradiated with infrared light.

You can sign up through this link.

Place: Sala polivalent · Eureka building

Date: Thursday 19, September2024 - 15:00h

End date: Thursday 19, September2024 - 16:00h

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Innovation Day: solutions of talent is an initiative launched by the Molins de Rei City Council and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the support of the Barcelona Provincial Council, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Citilab and the city councils of Cervelló, Corbera de Llobregat, El Papiol, La Palma de Cervelló, Pallejà, Sant Vicenç dels Horts and Vallirana. The initiative aims to make technology available to the university community so that, thanks to open innovation and collaboration, it can work on finding solutions to new business contexts, needs and challenges.

The activity is open to all members of the UAB community, particularly to students. Participants will have the opportunity to create teams, obtain ideation and/or prototyping tools, and learn techniques and discover resources to provide an impactful idea presentation.

On 1 October an ideation session will be held, a session in which ideas will be generated based on existing business challenges. Participants will work in groups of 4 to 10 people to develop a solution proposal for the challenge they have chosen. 

For more information and to sign up, please visit this link.

Place: El Molí, Molins de Rei (Plaça del Molí s/n)

Date: Tuesday 1, October2024 - 10:00h

Organiser: Parc de Recerca UAB and Molins de Rei City Council

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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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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