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  • If you are sensitive, your brain is more reactive

    Do you often cry watching your children’s movies? Do you tend to quickly share on Social Networks any photo that moves you? If so, and according to a group of scientists, perhaps you are among the 20% of the population genetically predisposed to empathy, that cognitive ability that allows us to perceive what another individual…

  • More than €60M for business R&D projects

    < /a> The Board of Directors of the Center for Industrial Technological Development (CDTI) has approved 144 new R+D+i projects with a total budget of 80.57 million euros. The CDTI will contribute 62.11 million euros, thus promoting business R+D+i and stimulating the creation of technology-based companies. Of the approved projects, 101 correspond to the second call…

  • Less dependence thanks to ICT

    Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) participate in the European project PERSSILAA that will develop and validate a new model of services for the detection and prevention of frailty in the elderly from the functional, cognitive and nutritional point of view. The project PERSIILAA, PERsonalised ICT Supported Service for Independent Living and Active…

  • Competitive intelligence: key to success

    Juan Carlos Aldasoro Alustiza has a PhD in Sociology from the UPV/EHU, and in Market Research and Techniques from the UOC, he has presented the thesis “Analysis of the current situation and future prospects for the implementation of competitive intelligence systems in Basque industrial SMEs” at the San Sebastián Polytechnic School, concluding that the competitive…

  • smart Basque Country

    The Basque Institute of Logistics and Sustainable Mobility-Mugikortasun Iraunkorra ta Logistikako Euskal Erakundea (IVL-LEE ) has subscribed with Ekoiru Consulting its adhesion to ‘Conpy Basque’, a platform that has more of about twenty Basque companies committed to the project “Euskadi on the way to the smart city / Euskadi Hiri Adimendunerako Bidea”. This consortium will…

  • Financing for start-ups with projection

    The ‘startup’ Boletus, which aims to boost traditional commerce and hospitality through a free mobile application, has just completed its first round of financing for an amount of 450,000 euros. The operation, advised by the M&A department of the Firm of lawyers Lawesome Legal Services, has been carried out in two phases and involves assessing…

  • Trees and grasses for climate change

    Researchers from the Plant Physiology Laboratory of the UPV/EHU have measured the emissions and inputs of greenhouse effect in various forests and pastures in the Basque Country with the ultimate goal of proposing a tree selection system that best adapts to the water conditions that climate change will cause. In pastures, the effectiveness of the…

  • SME instrument

    The European Commission has announced the first results of its new instrument dedicated to SMEs which, under Horizon 2020, has an endowment of €3 billion to help small innovative companies take their ideas from the lab to the market. In total, 155 SMEs from 21 countries (EU Member States or Horizon 2020 associated countries) will…

  • electronic waste

    In recent years there has been an increase in waste electrical and electronic parts (WEEE ) due to the growing importance of computers, tablets, mobile phones, calculators…, as well as the modernization of communications. However, many of these devices -also called E-Waste – are manufactured with polluting materials (such as phosphorus, mercury, cadmium or bromine)…

  • They discover more than 40 specific genes of Menaloma

    Researchers from the National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) have discovered more than 40 genes that define the degree of aggressiveness of melanoma and that distinguish it from other cancers with a poor prognosis. This study is relevant because it also explains why a drug also described in the CNIO is incorporated and selectively attacks tumor…