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Unite! presents the White Paper on Open Science and Innovation
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It provides a university open science and innovation governance model and five policy recommendations for fostering a new university scientific knowledge cocreation and transfer policy.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies@app-pdi-pas-notícies@app-estudiants2024-03-13T09:30:00ZLinkThe Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, the UPC and Probitas create iMAGING, an AI-based app to diagnose malaria
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A multidisciplinary team involving the Microbiology Service of the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, the Microbiology research group of the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute, the UPC and the Probitas Foundation has developed a novel AI-based diagnostic method for malaria.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies@app-estudiants2024-03-12T10:00:00ZNews ItemA new hydrogel developed for desalinating seawater using sunlight and for medical therapies
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Researchers from the UPC’s research group Innovation in Materials and Molecular Engineering - Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies (IMEM-BRT) are working on a thermosensitive hydrogel with several applications, such as the desalination of seawater with solar radiation and the creation of new biomedical adhesives for semi-invasive therapies and for medical diagnosis.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies#gran@app-estudiants2024-03-01T11:10:00ZNews ItemMeeting of the UPC with companies supporting the CFIS
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On 9 February, the UPC held a meeting and an event to thank the companies supporting the Interdisciplinary Higher Education Centre (CFIS) under the CFIS Partners programme.No publisher#home-notícies#empresa-notícies@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies2024-02-28T11:47:00ZNews ItemArtificial intelligence and 6G technologies for achieving as safe interconnected mobility as possible
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A multidisciplinary team from the UPC is working on the development of a network that, combining artificial intelligence with 6G technologies, remote sensing systems and optical communication—both wireless and through optical fibres—allows autonomous and human-driven vehicles to circulate safely and avoiding accidents in areas with heavy traffic or large crowds.No publisher#home-notícies#home-recerca@app-estudiants2024-02-21T10:40:00ZNews ItemCall for the Miquel Barceló UPC Science Fiction Award
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Organised by the UPC’s Board of Trustees, it is open to international entries. The award consists of a 2,000-euro prize to the best original story and a special mention. The deadline is 1 April 2024.No publisher#home-notícies@app-estudiants#estudiants-atenea-notícies#pdi-pas-notícies@app-pdi-pas-notícies2024-02-14T09:05:00ZLinkThe UPC celebrates the inauguration of MareNostrum 5, which positions the University as a global benchmark in supercomputing knowledge
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Recently, the rector of the UPC, Daniel Crespo, welcomed Catalan president Pere Aragonès and Spanish president Pedro Sánchez to the launch event of MareNostrum 5 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center–Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS).No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies@app-estudiants2024-01-24T11:40:00ZNews ItemNew photonics and AI tools for the diagnosis of ocular, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases
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Led by the UPC’s Centre for Sensors, Instruments and Systems Development, an international consortium of universities, hospitals and companies is developing new technologies based on light and AI to improve the diagnosis of several diseases.No publisher#recerca-notícies#home-notícies@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies#gran2024-01-23T11:32:00ZNews ItemThe UPC will coordinate the new interuniversity master’s degree in Semiconductor Engineering and Microelectronic Design
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The UPC, the UB, the UAB and the URV, with the collaboration of the IMB-CNM of the CSIC, programs, for the academic year 2024-2025, the new interuniversity master's degree in Semiconductor Engineering and Microelectronic Design, intended for train the next generation of professionals in this field. The master's degree will be taught in English and pre-registration will open in the first semester of 2024.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies@app-estudiants#estudiants-atenea-notícies@app-pdi-pas-notícies2024-01-10T08:15:00ZNews ItemUPC researcher Corrado Altomare receives a Leonardo Grant to study how heavy swell can affect seaside promenades
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Corrado Altomare, a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the UPC’s Maritime Engineering Laboratory, has been awarded a Leonardo Grant from the BBVA Foundation to study how episodes of heavy swell, caused by climate change and rising sea levels, can affect seaside promenades.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies#empresa-notícies@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies2023-12-31T12:00:00ZNews ItemCyber avatars for a new era
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The UPC takes part in the Avatar Symbiotic Society, an initiative by the Japanese government to drive the creation of a society in which teleoperated avatars and cyborgs can stand in for individuals in various areas of life. Researcher Alberto Sanfeliu, from the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI), is the only international member in a team of Japanese researchers led by professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.No publisher#recerca-notícies#empresa-notícies#home-notícies#gran@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies2023-12-21T13:06:00ZNews ItemThe UPC climbs positions in the 2024 QS Sustainability Ranking and is placed as one of the world’s 150 best universities
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The new edition of the QS Sustainability Ranking places the UPC as one of the world’s 150 best universities, specifically in 143rd place. The ranking also places the University among the world’s top 100 in governance, in 79th.No publisher#home-notícies#recerca-notícies@app-estudiants2023-12-21T10:30:00ZNews ItemFractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub reveals that AI and 5G-6G are the technologies with the highest potential for techno-social disruption
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Artificial intelligence, 5G-6G, big data, robotics, cybersecurity, computers and IoT protocols and 3D and 4D printing are the technologies with the most research groups at the UPC, according to the study 'Analysis, map and detection of Deep Tech areas and technologies'. Prepared with its own methodology within the framework of the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub, the study detects the end of 16 technologies in which 50% of the University's research groups are distributed, depending on the social impact or industrial escalation.No publisher#recerca-notícies#empresa-notícies@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies#home-notícies2023-12-05T09:35:00ZNews ItemThe UPC launches Connèxia, a new 360° programme to accelerate technology transfer to industry
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On 27 October, the UPC presented the Connèxia UPC programme. Aimed at industry, it provides tailored collaboration to connect the University’s technological capabilities with the specific and strategic needs of the productive sector.No publisher#home-notícies@app-pdi-pas-notícies@app-estudiants#recerca-notícies#empresa-notícies2023-12-04T12:45:00ZNews ItemThe UPC supports the GreenChips-EDU project as part of Unite!
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The UPC and other universities, companies and research institutions join forces in the European project GreenChips-EDU to accelerate the training of skilled workers in microelectronics.No publisher#home-notícies@app-estudiants@app-pdi-pas-notícies#recerca-notícies2023-12-01T14:32:00ZLink