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26/03. 2019
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The Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) institute creates a medicine that could be effective against most cancers. The advance is the result of more than twenty years of research by the biologist Laura Soucek, currently an ICREA researcher in VHIO.
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Barcelona aims for the fastest supercomputer in Europe. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is finalizing details to present its candidature to an European Commission competition to win a supercomputer 200 times faster than the current one, the MareNostrum IV.
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More than 33,800 spectators joined the 50 concerts of the Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival & Obertura City+, programmed by the main musical institutions of the city -Gran Teatre del Liceu, Palau de la Música Catalana and L'Auditori-, promoted by Barcelona Global, and with the support of the Barcelona City Council. Due to the success of the festival, the dates of the second edition have already been scheduled, which will take place from March 19th to 30th 2020.
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Fundació Bancaria la Caixa grants 6 million euros to Hospital Clínic to drive an initiative on research for the immune therapy for the next 5 years.
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Norwegian, the Scandinavian airline, will fly to Lima from Barcelona. El Prat airport will cover the route from summer 2020 with seven weekly frequencies.
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TravelPerk, a start-up specialized in online business travel planning, opens its new offices in the emblematic building Torre Glòries. With nearly 200 workers, it has attracted 65 million euros and is growing internationally.
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Banco Sabadell BStartup and Ship2B lead the first formalized investment of the BStartup Health, a health program responsible for the development of a test for early detection and the clinical validation phase of Alzheimer's.
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Hospital del Mar of Barcelona is the pioneering hospital in laser surgery able to operate inaccessible areas of the brain that cause epilepsy and brain tumors.
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The research group on Diabetes and Metabolism of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), together with the Eurocondor European project, show that the administration of neuroprotective collisions is effective in treating diabetic retinopathy.
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The LifeTime project receives 1 million euros of European funding. The Center for Genomic Regulation and LifeTime work together to understand how diseases arise and develop into the human body.
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Hospital Vall d'Hebron presents a training program in robotic surgery to prepare resident doctors for the surgery of the future, which will allow for slightly invasive surgeries, with fewer incisions than conventional surgery.
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Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Hospital del Mar, together with a group of experts from around the world, are working on one of the pioneering surgery's star techniques that preserves the nipple and breast skin in breast cancer operations.
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Instituto Oftalmológico Quirónsalud Dexeus, the new reference center for modern ophthalmology, with the most advanced technology in the diagnosis, care and medical and surgical treatment of ocular health.
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Accenture partners with Idneo to reinvent the engineering and takes the plunge to the technological services, to digitally reinvent their products and offer innovative, personalized and efficient services.
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Estrella Damm launches an area for technological innovation in the Pier01 of Barcelona Tech City, focused on the technology and innovation sector.
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The appeal of Barcelona is still increasing: the city received 4.3% more foreign tourists in 2018, who left more money. The average expense per person rose to 1,112.41 euros, 2.4% more.
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Meet In&Out Barcelona, a digital guide for Chinese tourists to discover the city with an insight. The project has been promoted by La Roca Village and the Agència Catalana de Turisme, with the collaboration of Mucho and TheCreative.net.
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The real estate company Renta Corporación invests 30 millions in 48.560 square meters in offices, commercial establishments and parkings in Barcelona.
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Consorci de la Zona Franca will invest 4.2 million in restoring the industrial unit B of the Zona Franca Aduanera, which was the first location of the Barcelona Model prison project. In particular, there will be established five independent logistics department stores of 2,000 and 2,500 square meters.
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Barcelona strengthens its position as a technological hub, up to the 25% of rentals of the city are made by technology companies, located on the axis comprising Diagonal, Gràcia and 22@.
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Museu de les Aigües, integrated in the Agbar Foundation, celebrates the World Water Day, rebuilding the Casa Vicens waterfall and recovering one of Gaudí's missing works.
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The VII edition of the Jardins de Pedralbes Festival, faithful to its agenda of celebrities of the local, national and international scene, will count on artists such as Carla Bruni, Gilberto Gil, Juanes and Izal.
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Jaume Plensa, the barcelonian sculptor, takes Manhattan and decorates the lobby of the Hudson Yards, one of the most iconic skyscrapers of the Big Apple.
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Barcelona will dedicate a week to the Latin American writer Gabriel García Márquez just ahead of the 5 years of his death, between the 6th and the 13th of April. Among different activities, in which greatest writers from all over the world will convene, there will be workshops, literature, journalism and music.
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Casa Batlló shows its restoration to the public, with guided visits, which exhibit the recovery of the stucco of the noble floor and allow to walk for the scaffold of 30 meters high.
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Barcelona hosts the only official exhibition of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, called Meet Vincent van Gogh, which shows his life and the reasons for his art.
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The new president of the Spanish theaters and opera seasons, Ópera XXI, Oriol Aguilà, the artistic director of the Peralada Festival and member of Barcelona Global, aims to continue working for the opening of the lyric to the society of our days.
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The Advisory Board of City Promotion, which includes many Barcelona Global members, chooses four proposals to project a creative and innovative Barcelona, and become a global musical referent.
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Automobile Barcelona hosts its 40th edition after a hundred years of history and will show, between May 11 and 19, all the advances in connectivity, design, technology and mobility.
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Seat strengthens its internationalization strategy and finds its place and gains acmes to the Chilean market, in addition to reinforcing its presence in Colombia.
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Rosa Esteva teamed up with Value Retail to raise the gastronomic level and promote a chain in La Roca Village with the Mordisco brand, meaning to make Mordisco independent and able to open more branches.
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The Torelló winery pays homage to the Costa Brava with a special edition of its sparkling wine Brut Reserva 2014
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CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, will host a Local Energy Supplies and Re-communalization of Utility Providers seminar that will gather practitioners, civil society and academics from Barcelona, among other countries, to discuss merits and challenges of such initiatives and similarities and differences between them.
Where: Sala Jordi Maragall, CIDOB. Elisabets 12, 08001 Barcelona
When: The 29th of march
To check the programme click here
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Don't miss the 9th edition of Tech Demo Day. It will have a selection of 50 new companies that will help you identify your projects or projects to 50 investors and 50 corporations in technological innovations that will help you improve your business.
During all these years Tech Demo Day has worked in other to connect startups, investors, consolidated companies, media, students and teachers in a unique event designed to empower all the agents of the entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem of Barcelona.
Where: Conference Hall of La Salle Campus Barcelona.
When: Thursday, April 4th, from 09:00 to 18:00 h
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Airbnb organizes the New Destinations Summit, which will bring together innovators and visionaries to share, discuss and analyze how technology can be used to create new tourist destinations and generate inclusive and sustainable economic growth through travel and local experiences.
Where: Museu de la Pell d'Igualada
When: Thursday, the 9th of May
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Every Sunday at 12.30, the Mimosa Garden of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, becomes a stage where young talents trained in Classical Music Conservatories of Barcelona offer exclusive concerts in Vermouth & Clasics.
Where: Mandarin Oriental (Passeig de Gràcia, 38)
When: Sunday
For more information do not hesitate to check the hotel's website
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