The visit of the EU Programme Directorate and CDTI Territorial Cooperation to CIDETEC took place last 4 December. In the course of proceedings, Juan Antonio Tébar and Guillermo Álvarez gave centre representatives and a group of guests from collaborating companies a preview of new features with regard to the future Horizon Europe Framework Programme. This presentation was followed by an exchange of ideas regarding open issues, their prospects, and the activities of the CIDETEC Energy Storage, Nanomedicine and Surface Engineering centres.
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PhDs Hans-Jurgen Grande and Ramón Tena appear on the list of twenty-one researchers honoured on 21 November in acknowledgement of their work in the context of the Basque Science, Technology and Research Network.
The event, promoted by the Department for Economic Development and Infrastructure, was presided by Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, with each of the honourees being awarded a diploma of acknowledgement for work done over the last few years in fulfilment of their functions in Technological Centres and cooperative research centres (CICs).
The event agenda included a meeting with the Basque president, councillorArantxa Tapia and vice-councillor EstibalizHernaez, during which the Lehendakaristated: “The centres where you work are vastly improving their results these days, generatingbetter-quality R+D+iprojects and implementing greater effective collaboration among different agents. And not only is the Government saying so; the companies are also experiencing this change first-hand”.
Con las nuevas instalaciones CIDETEC refuerza su posicionamiento como referente en innovación y desarrollo en la ingeniería de superficies.
El día 19 de julio se han inaugurado oficialmente en el Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Miramón las nuevas instalaciones de CIDETEC Surface Engineering. El acto ha sido presidido por el Lehendakari del Gobierno Vasco, Íñigo Urkullu, y ha contado con la presencia de la Consejera de Desarrollo Económico e Infraestructuras, Arantxa Tapia, el Diputado General de Gipuzkoa, Markel Olano Arrese, la Diputada de Promoción Económica, Medio Rural y Equilibrio Territorial de la Diputación foral de Gipuzkoa Ainhoa Aizpuru, el Presidente de CIDETEC Eduardo Junkera y el Director general de CIDETEC, Javier Rodríguez.
Durante la inauguración se han visitado las instalaciones, que cuentan con equipamientos de primer nivel, como equipos para sintetizar, caracterizar y procesar polímeros y composites avanzados, así como laboratorios completamente equipados para el estudio, la caracterización y el tratamiento de superficies.
“A finales de 2015 decidimos que de cara al futuro teníamos que concentrar nuestros esfuerzos, especializarnos más, apostar más, arriesgar más, para poder aportar más” afirmó el Director General de Cidetec. “En este proceso de evolución las políticas del Gobierno Vasco en materia de innovación y tecnología nos han servido de guía, y aprovecho para decir que estamos totalmente alineados con ellas”.
Al acto, que culminó con la presentación de una placa conmemorativa del acontecimiento, asistieron representantes de las entidades que integran el patronato de CIDETEC, organizaciones y asociaciones empresariales vascas y las principales empresas de los sectores industriales en los que CIDETEC desarrolla su actividad.
Eduardo Junkera and Javier Rodríguez, president and director of CIDETECrespectively, met on 14 June with the president of Repsol, Antonio Brufau, and the president of Petronor, Emiliano López Atxurra, to follow up on the collaboration agreement between these entities to develop technologies to minimise or remove the current limitations of electric mobility. The work is focused on achieving a specific energy with the appropriate density so that, using a battery of a similar weight and size, autonomy can be increased.
The main objective of this collaboration is to promote and develop technologies that can help electric mobility and its expansion in a more complete way. The aim is to substantially improve existing batteries, oreven to go further, by developing disruptive storage technologies.
The meeting took place in Petronor’s facilities, an entity that joined the CIDETEC board of trusteeson 1 June.
The CIDETEC Foundation sees its main governing body reinforced with the incorporation of two new trustees, who will be joining the eight members that have formed it until now:Irizar, Egile, Iberdrola, Maier, Mugape, UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, BIC Gipuzkoa and the Chartered Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa.
The identity of the new trustees is going to strengthen the power of this board of trustees, which will thus be rounding off the presence of the institutions in and the commitment of the large industrial players towards CIDETEC’s corporate project.In this respect, one should highlight the presence on the board of trustees of leading organisations in the matter of power generation and distribution, the manufacture of automotive components and aerospace industry.
