The R&D&I Platform in Marine Energies of Catalonia (PLEMCAT), led by IREC, has been awarded the 2025 Engineering and Progress Award by the Col·legi d’Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports. The award was presented this…
On Friday 16 May, the Hon. Ms Sílvia Paneque i Sureda, Minister of Territory, Housing and Ecological Transition of the Government of Catalonia, visited the ongoing earthworks of the PRIMA Platform (Experimental Platform to Drive…
On May 9th and 10th, 2025, the CosmoCaixa Barcelona hosted the tenth edition of the 10ALAMENOS9 Festival, the leading event in Ibero-America for the dissemination of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Born as an initiative launched by…
During the past four years, the HYBRIS project (Hybrid Battery energy stoRage system for advanced grid and beHInd-de-meter Segments) has focused on the development of a Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) by integrating lithium titanate…
The SENSOCEAN project has successfully concluded this April after 2 years of continuous work. The project, developed by EOLOS and IREC, aimed to investigate and develop a meteoceanic buoy with advanced sensory and digital technologies…
The Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) has recently announced the selected projects for new business models in the energy transition and access to the regulatory sandbox for promoting research…
One more year, IREC has participated in the EspaiCiència in Saló de l’Ensenyament, where we were able to share with students the research we carry out at the institute. EspaiCiència is an initiative promoted by…
The European MARBEL project, coordinated by the Eurecat Technology Center with the participation of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), has developed a new battery concept for electric vehicles, focusing on large-scale modular and…
IREC continues to consolidate its position as a leading research and innovation centre in Europe, achieving remarkable success in securing competitive European funding. During the 2023-2024 period, IREC has submitted over 130 proposals to Horizon…
The RETABIT project, developed by La Salle and IREC, has created an innovative platform to support municipalities in the planning and the deployment of the Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans (SECAPs), specifically, the retrofitting…