Arcadi Navarro, ICREA at UPF, new Secretary of Universities and Research
The new government of Catalonia is quiclky shaping up and we are delighted to learn that ICREA Arcadi Navarro, up to now at UPF, has been appointed Secretary of Universioties and Research.The position, reporting to the Minister of Industry and Knowledge (Empresa i Coneixement) oversees the entire Catalan academic system encompassing both Higher Education and […]
New spin-off company by ICREA Researcher Neus Sabaté
Neus Sabaté (ICREA at ICMAB-CSIC) just launched a new spin-off company to develop paper batteries: FUELIUM, that is based on technologies developed by Neus over the last few years and that promises a much cheaper, environmentally friendly power sources for all sorts of lab-on-a-chip technologies. Stay posted!
Talent attraction by ICREA, a major factor in research success.
Josep Joan Moreso (UPF) explains today on Studia XXI the impact of ICREA in the Catalan research system and makes a compelling case for the adoption of a similiar model by the Spanish goverment. Read the whole piece here (in Spanish)
Article by Paul Verschure in La Vanguardia
Check out this article by Paul Verschure (ICREA at UPF) published yesterday in La Vanguardia on the future of intelligent machines…
Manel Esteller i Frank Koppens, National Research Awardees by the FCRI
Manel Esteller (ICREA at IDIBELL) has been recognised with the National Research Award jointly by the FCRI (Fundació Catalana per la Recerca i la Innovació) and the Catalan Government. In the same ceremony, Frank Koppens (ICREA at ICFO) has been distinguished with the Young Talent Award, a category for researchers under 40. Congratulations to both! […]
69th ICREA Colloquium – Everything you always wanted to know about creating a company (but were afraid to ask)
By: Joan Seoane (ICREA at VHIO) and Emilià Pola (Exec.Dir. at ICREA) When: 22nd December 2015, 18:00h Where: ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 6th floor Why would you, decent and exemplary ICREA researchers, ever want to get involved in the creation of a spin-off company? In this colloquium we will take a stroll on the ‘dark side […]
The Festival SUD de Poesia will be held at the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona on the 18th and 19th of December 2015
Festival Sud de Poesia The Quest of the South (we have lost the North) The first edition of the Festival Sud de Poesia brings together distinguished and fresh voices in a unique long flow of two afternoons-evenings. Short and long poems, angry and joyful poems, interrogative, nostalgic, aporetic, enigmatic, evocative, boisterous, emancipatory, revolted […]
The Festival SUD de Poesia is to be held on the 18th and 19th of December at Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona
This Festival is one of the activities of Peter Wagners’ ERC Advanced grant. It will be held at the Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona (Arcs 5, 08002 – Barcelona) The first edition of the Festival Sud de Poesia brings together distinguished and fresh voices in a unique long flow of two afternoons-evenings. Short and long poems, angry and […]
“MÀQUINES QUE PENSEN” ICREA – CCCB conferences
Coinciding with the current CCCB exhibition ‘Humans +: el futur de la nostra espècie’, the new cycle of debates by ICREA researchers offers four talks on intelligence, its meaning and its limits: ‘MÀQUINES QUE PENSEN: Possibilitats i dilemes de la intel•ligència artificial’ Free entrance, but usually very full! Further details at the CCCB site. Dimarts […]
Pura Muñoz-Cànovas has received the Pfizer Foundation award for Basic Research
Pura Muñoz-Cànovas, ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and head of the Cell Biology group of the Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS), received the award for Basic Research granted each year by the Pfizer Foundation for her article http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v506/n7488/full/nature13013.html published in Nature in February 2014. For the first time a […]
