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Agrofood
POCTEP INBEC Project: Circular and sustainable bioeconomy carried out to cross-border business cooperation
The global challenges we face in achieving sustainable resource management, while delivering economic development, require the close collaboration of all actors in a chain consisting of industrial (business), government and research sectors. In this context, Circular...
Redefining the value fo snacks; stress & snacks
Let me tell you... Food is intrinsically linked to our health and quality of life to the extent that melatimes play a crucial role in satisfying our needs both on a biological level (the nutrients provided by the food we eat) and on a psychosocial level. Among these...
Energy & Environment
Today´s buildings, ready for tomorrow?
Did you know that we spend approximately 90% of our time inside buildings, and that they are responsible for more than 40% of energy consumption in the European Union? These places where we carry out our main activity are the core of our economy and society, but, how...
MOBILITIES FOR EU
A year ago, at the beginning of 2023, at CARTIF we started one of those great projects that leave a footprint (although if we talk in terms of emissions, the idea is actually to reduce them), NEUTRALPATH. In it, the cities of Zaragoza (Spain) and Dresden (Germany) are...
Environment
Batteries in front of a new playing field
This past month (june 2023), eurodeputies provisionally agreed on new legislation for batteries sold in the EU. It has already been hailed as a "game changer" for batteries, creating a framework to foster a competitive and sustainable battery industry in Europe. After...
Nitrogen and Phosphorus, the agronomic macronutrients par excellence
I think most people are familiar, in one way or another, with the characteristics of the chemical elements we are going to talk about in this post: nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). Nitrogen in its gaseous from (N2) is part of the composition of atmospherica air or we...
Industry
Digital Twin: Industry 4.0 in its digitised form
Digital twin has become one of the main trends or "mantras" in relation to digitalisation. It is practically a synonym of a product, something that you can buy as a commodity for a company. At CARTIF, we believe that the digital twin concept is a synonym of the...
Managing industrial data: prevention is better than cure
In the field of health, it is known that is more effective prevent illnesses than treat them once they have manifested themselves. In a similar way, it can be apply in the context of industrial data, its continuous and proactive maintenance helps to avoid the need of...
Health & Quality of life
The passage of time
It is curious how, at the moment we find ourselves, our sense of time has been so disrupted due to the confinement to which the entire population is subjected. Humanity has developed all kinds of tools that allow us to feel we have everything under control. That is...
On World Health Day, #stayhome but do it in a healthy and active way
April 7 is World Health Day. It is paradoxical that this year we will celebrate it confined due to a global pandemic. However, although #Istayhome, life goes on and we cannot let our guard down when it comes to health. Each of us associates the fact of being at home...
Construction and Heritage
Beyond strategy. Smart use of engineering expertise.
"Divide et impera", popular ancient Rome motto later attributted to the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. "Divide and dominate" or better known as "Divide and rule", was the strategic foundation on which the Roman Empire was built (27 bC - 476 ac). Almost nothing. In line...
Heritage and Cultural Tourism: A marriage of convenience?
Cultural heritage, in the broad sense, is the legacy received from our ancestors, which becomes the testimony of their worldview, their ways of life and their way of being, having to be passed down to future generations. Knowing the cultural heritage is to know the...
Digitalization
Covid Trackers
For a month, almost since the end of the confinement, we have received daily news about the cases of regrowth, which have not stopped increasing in number and incidence. In Spain we are told, through the media, about how important the work of trackers is to keep...
Improving our cities with ICTs
In the European Union 40% of the total final energy is consumed in residential and tertiary buildings. That is reason behind several European Directives established with the aim that the Member States develop long-term strategies encouraging the renovation of...
Innovating R&D
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