European Robotics Forum 2025

The euRobotics organise next 25 to 27 march a new edition of the European Robotics Forum held on Stuttgart, Germany.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore industrial institutions. These visits will provide valuable information on pioneering research and market-ready applications.

Our partner Iñaki Fernández, from the Industrial and Digital System Division will participate on 26th march at 16h on a workshop about “Bioinspired Robotics for Bridging Natural and Artificial Intelligence”.

European Robotics Forum 2025 Programme

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Organise: Eu Robotics

More information: ERF2025

DEEP Startup Ecosystem Conference

All ecosystems are built on people. DEEP Ecosystems brings together a large community of creative minds who believe in innovation to change our world: ecosystem leaders, investors, companies and governments. The DEEP Startup Ecosystem Conference is a two-day conference where up to 100 ecosystem leaders, investors, companies and governments from Europe and around the world come together to share ideas, learn and collaborate to drive innovation.

This new edition will take place next 26th and 27th March in Aranda de Duero at the Ribering Coworking.

Our colleague Raúl Sánchez, director of the Natural Resources and Climate area, will participate in one of the round tables on 26 March under the name ‘Nature-based Solutions, Nature-based Enterprises and the Nature-based Economy: concepts, state-of-the-art, illustrative cases, potential’.

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Advancing the circular bio-industry

After four years of work the CO2SMOS project comes to an end and celebrates its achievements!

On 1 April, the project will hold its final conference in Brussels where it will showcase its main results: the CO2-based feedstocks and bioplastics that have been obtained and how they have been achieved, as well as how the knowledge gained on environmental, economic, social and political aspects can boost the deployment of these technologies.

Agenda Final Conference CO2SMOS

9:30-10:00 Registration and welcome coffee

10:00-10:15 Opening remarks on biogenic CO2 utilization

10:15-10:45 Three Horizon2020 Projects, one goal: deploying CCU in Europe – Discussion with CATCO2NVERS and VIVALDI Projects; Nicolás Martín, CARTIF, Dulce Muñoz, FUNDITEC, Albert Guisasola,UAB

10:45-13:00 Unfolding the CO2SMOS Project

10:45-11:00 CO2SMOS overview; Nicolás Martin, CARTIF

11:00-12:00 Insights by the end users on CO2SMOS bio-based polymers and materials made from CO2;
Marian Blom, AVANTIUM, Patrizio Salice, NOVAMONT, Andrea Brunetin, NADIR

12:00-12:30 In the pursuit of biomaterials with negative carbon footprints, and keys underlying their potential marketability*; Dimitris Kourkoumpas, CERTH, Giuseppe Minafra, RINA-C

12:30-13:00 Social perception and political aspects shaping the adoption of CO2-based products in the CO2SMOS and VIVALDI projects; Imke Haverkämper, RWTH, Franklin Streichenberger, CVE

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 Panel session: linking biogenic CO2 providers and bioplastic manufacturers; Samuele Ambrosetti, BIC, Fabio Poretti, CEWEP, Pablo Molina, EBA

15:00-15:15 Concluding remarks; Nicolás Martín, CARTIF

15:30-16:00 Technology Transfer Workshop*;  RINA-C

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Organised by: CO2SMOS

More information: COS2MOS Final Conference

RURBANIVE. Third plenary assembly

During the 2nd and 3rd of April will take place in Athens (Greece) the third plenary assembly of the RURBANIVE project to which our colleagues David Olmedo and Iñaki Fernández from the Industrial and Digital Systems division will attend.

In this third assembly, the advances that have been achieved during the last months and in which CARTIF has taken part will be presented. CARTIF will present the first version of one of the four cognitive computing tools (COC-Tool#1) that will be developed throughout the project.

COC Tool#1

Its purpose is to recognise facial expressions and analyse natural language processing (NLP) in relation to a cultural landscape displayed to the user on a computer screen. COC-Tool#1 allows to analyse the reactions of these users to images of rural cultural landscapes, specifically those corresponding to the Valles Pasiegos Burgaleses, as a Spanish demonstrator. The objective is to measure and predict the affinity of individuals towards certain environments through emotion-based metrics. This tool will be used to understand why some rural landscapes are more visited than others and under what conditions, thus contributing to the promotion of cultural heritage and the planning of sustainable rural tourism.

In addition, during this meeting podcasts will also be recorded together with the researchers of the project who will answer all those questions related to the rural-urban enablers (RUE) established in the project. Our colleague Iñaki Fernández will be interviewed by CARTIF, who will talk about the RUE that we lead, the access and digital promotion of cultural and landscape heritage and that due to the importance of the developments that are being carried out, is one of the examples to be followed by the rest of the RUEs.

Organised by: RURBANIVE

Transforming Process Industries with AI

After three years of work s-X-AIPI comes to its end and with it its final event taht will be held next 9th april at Belgrado, Serbia.

A unique event where self-improving AI is reshaping process industries. It will show the practical and strategic benefits of AI in the production of steel, asphalt, pharmaceuticals and aluminium.

A place where the project partners would have the opportunity to share the advances and results obtained along the project. Productivity improvement thanks to AI, human-centric AI tools success stories, among other things.

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Organise: s-X-AIPI

More information: s-X-AIPI Final event