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  • BRTA: The Alliance of the Basque Network of Science, Technology and Innovation

    The Basque Government, SPRI, the three Provincial Councils and 16 scientific-technological agents belonging to the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network have formed the BRTA — Basque Research and Technology Alliance — with the aim of generating cooperation dynamics and add critical masses to meet the technological and industrial challenges of the Basque Country, and…

  • The Great Green Wall

    The Great Green Wall of Africa, or Initiative for the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel, is a project that began in 2007. The plan consists of the cultivation of 8,000 km of trees in Africa, with the vital purpose of being a source of food and providing a better future for…

  • Video: An app to prevent the spread of diseases in crops

    Globalized trade, climate change, and the intensification of agriculture have exacerbated pests and diseases in food crops, causing great losses to small farmers. The PlantVillage Nuru app, developed by scientists at École Polytechnique Lausanne and Penn State University, helps growers diagnose pests: they only need to install the app on a smartphone, and the program…

  • Vitoria-Gasteiz can produce more energy than it consumes through solar panels

    According to a study coordinated by Estefanía Caamaño, from the Institute of Solar Energy of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, the massive installation of photovoltaic panels on the roofs of buildings in Vitoria-Gasteiz would produce 28.5% more electricity than is consumed in the city. According to Caamaño, this would not immediately translate into the city…

  • Society 5.0: technological transformations at the service of people

    Faced with digital development profoundly affecting all sectors of society and the economy, Japan has developed a concept of a connected and super-intelligent society, the Society 5.0., where the potential of technological advances is put at the service of all citizens. In this way, they seek to go beyond technocentric concepts such as Industry 4.0,…

  • The great challenges of urban mobility

    When we talk about urban mobility, it is necessary to mention two great challenges. On the one hand the decarbonization of mobility and on the other hand the servitization of the means of transport. The decarbonization of transport is a fact that will happen sooner than we think and later than it should. The reasons…

  • Ranking of Universities according to their impact on the SDGs

    The British media Times Higher Education, specialized in higher education, has produced an World Ranking of Universities based on their economic, social and environmental impact, taking as reference the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. Consequently, the ranking uses indicators such as academic freedom, the type of employment contracts, or the…

  • The local products fair repeats success in donostia

    In the boulevard of Donostia, producers and merchants met this weekend to bring out the gastronomic products of our land. Vegetables, jams, chocolate, ham, txakoli, cheese, sweets and an endless number of top quality products were on display before an audience captivated by the product, the good treatment and the atmosphere in the tent. On…

  • The rise in sea level, an alert scenario

    A new scientific study warns that sea levels could rise by up to two meters before 2100, forcing the displacement of hundreds of millions of people, and causing considerable damage to the habitability of the planet. In this scenario, the world would lose 1.79 million square meters of land area, the equivalent of the size…

  • Video: Technology to transform the city

    In 2050, two thirds of the world’s population will live in cities, and this rapid urbanization process is accompanied by major challenges: energy consumption and the significant contribution of cities to air pollution, the difficult access of much of the population to solutions worthy of habitability, the congestion of motorized traffic in the accesses to…