Mobile World Congress 2021 returns to Barcelona. The event, celebrated this year offline and online, brings together among 30,000 and 50,000 attendees and is focused in innovation and leadership, with specific aspects such as 'blockchain roaming’.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center-CNS will open a nuclear fusion hub linked to ITER in Barcelona. The aim is to accelerate the development of fusion energy. It will use the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer to perform calculations and experiments.
Óscar Manresa launches his new project by the sea: La Catalina. 24.000 squared meters that houses spaces for events and a restaurant “comme il faut” with a "very well cared Mediterranean cuisine" offer.
Spanish business schools consolidate their position as a benchmark in postgraduate finance education. IE Business School (8), Esade (15) and Eada (28) place their master's degrees in finance in the top thirty in the world.
The Grec festival fills Barcelona with theater, dance, music and circus. This edition will program about a hundred shows in 37 venues in Barcelona until July 31.
Accenture acquires Umlaut, a German consulting and engineering services company. It will have more than 4,200 new industry-leading engineers and consultants in 17 countries in its Industry X area.
Mango starts the expansion of the logistics center in Lliçà (Barcelona) for €35 million with a warehouse of total of 280,000 square meters to be operational in 2022.
Quadis, the largest network of official car dealers and service centers in Spain, buys Gicauto, Peugeot dealer. The aim is to grow in Girona and the brand expects to increase its annual turnover by 50 million euros.
Nestlé strengthens its technology center in Barcelona, with the incorporation of 100 people in the last year, in the middle of the pandemic. With 600 professionals, it is already the largest IT hub in the firm.
Grupo Catalana Occidente will open an Atradius subsidiary in the United Kingdom. The company, specialized in credit insurance covering commercial defaults and part of the Group, expects to recover its pre-Covid level of results in one or two years.
Ana Maiques, CEO of Neuroelectrics, participated in the forum of European technology VivaTech and discussed how to foster innovation with French President Emmanuel Macron and other international companies.
The startup SmartMonkey, dedicated to optimize the management of last mile logistics routes with a system based on artificial intelligence, closes a funding round of 425,000 euros. Some business angels led the round, among them Xavier Herce and Frederic Horta of Nemeda.io.
Vall d'Hebron is the first center in Spain to have three Da Vinci robots. The new incorporation will make possible the development of between 200 and 300 more robotic surgeries each year and to extend this technique to more specialties.
Public transport gives back to society 6.5 euros for every euro received in public contributions, according to a study by UPF Barcelona School of Management. The economic, social and environmental impact of TMB is valued at 2,400 million euros per year.
COVID-19 vaccines pre-prepared in syringes for their administration can be safely transported according to a study published in the magazine Clinical Microbiology and Infection. The work was led by the Neuropharmacology-Neurophar Research Group at UPF and Pharmacy Service of the Hospital del Mar.
The city council of Tarragona relies on the operator T-Systems for the integral transformation of its management systems. The project represents a change in the management model of the municipality's current solutions.
The 15th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU), inaugurated this week at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. This location will host until September 16 one of the exhibitions of this show.
Cooltra, the sustainable mobility company, launches its scooter-sharing service in Paris. To date, their scooters are also present in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Lisbon, Rome and Milan and have over 1.3M users.
Barcelonian publishing house Elba translates Truman Capote's 'Color Local'. Published on June 30, it compiles the travel chronicles of a twenty-something through the U.S. and Europe.
The digital project created and developed by eMascaró for Fundación Vicente Ferrer receives the honourable mention in the Hermes Creative Awards 2021 and the Award of Distinction for Charitable Organizations Websites at The Communicator Awards 2021.
UPF-BSM and Agbar create a chair on institutional communication and sustainable development that will promote the study and knowledge on the future of the 2030 Agenda.
SAS presents the eBook "Cómo afrontar el reto de la transformación digital en mi organización: de la teoría a la práctica", a practical guide for company leaders who are outlining their roadmap towards digitalization. Barcelona Global and a panel of renowned national key opinion leaders collaborated in the creation of this material.
Archikubik won the competition for the former Renault garage at 29 Quai de Grenelle, as part of the new Reinventer Paris 3 edition launched by the City Council of Paris. Thus contributing, to an economic transition in a poetic and friendly way.
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