Massive crop of ERC PoC grants at ICREA
A total of eight Proof of Concept grants have been awarded in Catalonia by the European Research Council, five of which to ICREA Research Professors, and two more to ICREA Acadèmia awardees. Congratulations to all awardees and best of luck with their research! Here’s the complete list, with a few details. More information is available […]
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 […]
El Festival SUD de Poesia tendrá lugar los días 18 y 19 de diciembre en el Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona
Este Festival es una de las actividades de la ERC Advanced grant de Peter Wagner. Tendrá lugar en el Reial Cercle Artístic de Barcelona (Arcs 5, 08002 – Barcelona) La Búsqueda del Sur (hemos perdido el norte) La primera edición del Festival Sud de Poesia reúne voces distinguidas y frescas en un único flujo de dos atardeceres. Poemas cortos y largos, poemas […]
«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 […]
