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Microorganisms and spontaneous vegetation: natural allies to protect strategic crops and urban environments

Beneficial microorganisms and spontaneous vegetation act as natural allies against pests and diseases. Their use in agriculture improves soil health, protects strategic crops, and strengthens resilience to climate change.

Save me as you can!

Have you ever wondered what a world where renewable energy storage is efficient and affordable would look like? One of the challenges society must address to achieve effective decarbonization is increasing the generation and penetration of renewable energy. Despite the progress made, the...

From water to plate and from plug to field

Three problems, one only answer: water-energy-food nexus This year we´ve experienced situations as diverse as a widespread blackout that left us without power and basic services for several hours; a period of intense rain that, while providing sufficient water, also caused flooding in certain...

The impact of PCB design on reliability and electronic performance

In sectors as diverse as construction, logistics, heritage, and industry, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become a key factor in driving digitalization, improving efficiency, and opening up new opportunities for innovation. When designing an electronic device, attention is often focused on the...

Innovation is a marathon, not a sprint

Innovation isn´t just about having a good idea. It´s about fighting for it when nobody does. It´s about shaping it when it´s still intangible, about falling a hundred times until, suddenly, something starts to shine. We tend to think when we talk about innovation, that thanks to the emergence of a...

When “green” doesn’t come from doing an LCA, but only from a Pantone® colour

If my grandma had heard about green marketing, she would have raised an eyebrow saying: “That sounds like they’re selling you the same thing... just with a pine-scented label.” And if I told her about the recent situation with Ursula von der Leyen, having to confirm her support for the Green...

How Did We Recover from the Blackout?

Hydropower as the Silent Heroine of April 28 By now, we’re probably all tired of hearing every kind of theory—some quite colorful—about the causes behind the April 28th blackout. But what has received far less media attention is the set of technical solutions that made it possible to restore power...

Preserving what we are: a new technical perspective on the maintenance of built heritage

Beneath the vaults of a Gothic church, within the thick walls of a Cistercian monastery, in the stucco of a Renaissance palace or the rammed earth and timber frames of a traditional house, a single truth emerges: built heritage is an essential part of our history and collective identity. It is a...

Chemical recycling of textile waste: a new life for fiber blends

A growing problem: mountains of textile waste Clothing and textile consumption has increase with the expansion of so-called "fast fashion", giving rise to enromous amounts of waste. In Europe, the European Environment Agency (EEA)1 reports that each EU citizen purchased an average of 19kg of...

A journey through production

Imagine if every product that reaches your hands could explain its story: where it comes from, what materials it was made with, what processes it went through, how its quality was guaranteed and under what conditions it was transported to its destination. We live in an era in where information is...

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Agrofood

Superfoods?

Superfoods?

‘Did you know that cocoa increases mental activity? We are going to discover and prove scientifically the incredible power of what we have in the pantry’. With these words, the Spanish cooker Alberto Chicote started ‘Superfoods’, his special TV program, on March 28....

How can we reduce waste in food industry?

How can we reduce waste in food industry?

On 26 September it was celebrated in Madrid the "4th Meeting point against food waste" organized by AECOC, where the waste problem was analyzed from different perspectives and pooling actual experiences of prevention and reduction. Social enterprises as...

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Energy & Environment

The next step of our cities: the climate neutrality

The next step of our cities: the climate neutrality

As a Technology Centre devoted to R&D&I and at the head of projects whose main goal is the innovation, in CARTIF we have been active in the clear evolution of the challenges or objectives that the European Commission has set to our cities and urban...

The challenge of the characterisation of the building stock

The challenge of the characterisation of the building stock

It is well know that more than a third of the total final energy consumed in the European Union is consumed in residential and tertiary sector buildings. For this reason, in recent years, various directives and calls for proposals have tried to promote the renovation...

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Environment

9 things you may not know  about water footprint

9 things you may not know about water footprint

When we work developing environmental technologies, to quantify the advantages to be obtained by using them can be an important added value. And if we put numbers, we are committed to communicate these numbers in an objective and traceable way, and it is when...

Changing the air. And winds of change

Changing the air. And winds of change

At this moment you are visiting our blog and after reading the title of this post, you are thinking about finding a text based on the current social context, where the word "change" appears again and again. Not this time. Here, we want to present our skills and it is...

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Industry

IoT, farming and market

IoT, farming and market

Agriculture and husbandry are economical activities with high social value in some places around Europe; they have an important share in the economy of many European regions and the European Union devotes a significant part of its annual budget to farming and the...

Digital Enablers: Industry 4.0 super-powers

Digital Enablers: Industry 4.0 super-powers

The first post about Industry 4.0 indicated the need for key technologies that would make possible the 4th industrial revolution. These key tehcnologies have been called "digital enablers". Each industrial revolution has had its "enablers". The first one was made...

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