The head of the government of Andorra, Xavier Espot, and his center-right coalition won the legislative elections in the principality on Sunday April 2, 2023. According to these results, Xavier Espot’s Democrat party came out on top with 32.38% of the vote…

A team of experts from the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Barcelona (UB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has designed a microfluidic device called microfluidic dynamic BH3…

Fluidra, the global leader in equipment and connected solutions in the pool and wellness sector, agreed at its Board of Directors meeting to propose to the General Shareholders’ Meeting a dividend payout of 0.70 euros per share charged to voluntary reserves.…

On June 1, 2023 the Unitary Patent project will come into effect, allowing patent applications to be submitted in one country and be respected across Europe. However, Spain will not be among the countries joining this agreement. The Spanish government has…

Airbus Humanity Lab (Toulouse, Occitania, France) announces development of wheelchairs for France’s national para-athletes. High-level sport is much like high-tech industry, where innovation, precision and attention to detail play a key role. And Paralympic…

As a consequence of the ongoing drought situation across Catalonia (Spain), the government has decided to stop producing artificial snow for ski slopes, save for “specific and exceptional cases.” One such exception will be the Para Snow World Cup held from…

SEAT S.A. (Spain) has received the European Sport & Healthy Company 2022 award in the Gold category. The committee, made up of ACES Europe, DCH (International Organization of Human Capital Managers) and technical experts from the consultancies AON and Mindgram…

Scandinavian Enviro Systems and Antin Infrastructure Partners today announced the formation of a joint venture supported by Michelin (France) to create the world’s first large-scale tire recycling group. The JV will combine Enviro’s unique and patented technology…

The ESDi School of Design (University Ramon Llull) wins the award in recognition of its support and collaboration with the “Gremi de la Fusta de Sabadell Comarca“. On Friday the 24th of March, two important events took place at the Wood Guild: the XXIX edition…

Francisco Reynés, Naturgy’s Chairman & CEO, chaired the company’s Ordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting today, which was held at the company’s registered office in Madrid (Spain). The shareholders approved the Financial Statements and the Management Report…

A drug to activate the resistance of crop plants to drought. This is what has been developed by a team from the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of Plants (IBMCP), a joint center of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the Spanish…

The University of Deusto, as part of the UNIC European Alliance, is organizing the 3rd edition of the UNIC CityLabs Festival, which is held annually. An event that aims to bring together universities and cities to share experiences, common challenges and…

Laboratorios Farmacéuticos ROVI and ReTree are collaborating to plant ROVI’s Forest in the Madrid Sierra. It is an initiative that forms part of ROVI’s carbon footprint reduction strategy and group employees have participated by activating the 2,000 specimens…

The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023, annual global ranking among the most reputable in the world, was unveiled on March 22nd, 2023. Once again this year, École des Ponts ParisTech is ranked in the “Engineering & Technology” broad subject, with…

The Linguistic Consortium of Catalonia, Spain, (Consorci per la Normalización Lingüística, CPNL) increased by 11% the number of places in Catalan language courses in the third semester compared to the third semester of 2022. In total, almost 29,000 places…

More than 75 university leaders from 16 countries convened at Keio University in Japan in march and called on G7 leaders to invest in peace and security education at all levels, incorporate the latest research into policy on peace and security, diversify…

Monserrat‘s Escolania choir (Spain, Catalonia) will create a mixed group for the first time in its almost 1,000 years of history to include female voices. According to Catalan News,  this is a “very important” step for the choir, and it will be formed of…

A study carried out by the URV’s SeesLab research group (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) has shown for the first time that machine learning algorithms do not always succeed in finding interpretable models from data. Machine learning is behind many daily decisions.…

Tonight, about 2,000 people have watched the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals Andorra 2023, which took place at Soldeu, at the foot of the Avet slope. The show once again turned Avet, as it already happened in the 2019, into a giant screen and mixed video mapping…