Last December 2019, the Secretary of Universities and Research assigned co-funding from European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), to construct emerging technologies programs to promote the development of new emerging activities in Catalonia, based on innovative…
Presentation of the roadmap beyond 2019 Last December 11th, 2019, the RIS3CAT Energy Community held its Final Event at ACCIÓ premises, and presented the roadmap beyond 2019. This Community, led by IREC, is an ecosystem…
The Energy for Society Network (XRE4S) has begun to hold meetings in different parts of the Catalan territory to get to know the different research groups of the network that work in the energy sector…
The latest in renewable energy: an eco gas that comes from mud / JORDI OLIVÉ As result to the pilot plant of natural gas generation of renewable origin, through the process of biogas methanationin, in…
The final meeting of INCITE took place at IREC from the 12 to the 14th of November, 2019. The meeting comprised a soft skills workshop, where INCITE ESRs and IREC researchers got training in topics…
A scientific article authored by members of IREC’s Nanoionics and Fuel Cells group, as well as researchers from the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), has recently been published as a cover in the…
The kick-off meeting of the Solar-Win project was held at IREC headquarters from the 16 to the 17th of October 2019. The main goal of Solar-Win is the industrial scale-up, validation under real-world operation conditions…
A new project started this autumn: GELTHERM (from the Spanish description “Geles nanocompuestos para la purificación de aguas mediante calentamiento magnético”). The project addresses one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century defined in…
The article entitle “Boosting Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation of Hematite in Acidic Electrolytes by Surface State Modification” recently published as a cover on Advanced Energy Materials, on it has involved the ICN2 Advanced Electron Nanoscopygroup, the IREC Energy…
IREC joins to the call of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body to evaluate science related to climate change, in recognition of the work of the IPCC, where it was…