On May 29 an online conference entitled ‘The Smart City response to COVID-19’ will be held by the international projects Replicate, Sharing Cities and MatchUP. This last initiative has the participation of CARTIF. The three projects will showcase ongoing experiences...

Within the framework of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 program and with CARTIF at the head of the initiative, the European Commission has launched the Nemo project, in which 18 partners from 11 countries participate with the aim of creating a global and...

Are you interested in research in the area Building Information Modelling? Would you like to join an international research and training network in the area of Cloud-based Building Information Modelling (CBIM)? Do you want to further your career and attain a PhD in...

CARTIF launches its Nature-Based Solutions Laboratory (NBS-Lab), thus becoming the first Spanish technology centre to have this type of facilities. This laboratory will allow to investigate natural solutions as an alternative to traditional urban solutions, favoring...

The LIFE ALGAECAN project, led by CARTIF, is successfully testing a wastewater purification system from vegetable processing that uses microalgae, a pioneering technique in Europe. This initiative is funded by the European Union through the LIFE program, the Union's...

The CARTIF Technology Centre has recently obtained the MERIT rating by the aeronautical manufacturer AIRBUS, thus recognizing the excellence, technical competence and high performance offered by the CARTIF Analysis and Testing Laboratory for the characterization of...

After 5 years of work, the European REMOURBAN project, coordinated by the CARTIF Technology Centre and which has one of its demonstration cities in Valladolid, exhibited on Thursday, October 17 in the city of Nottingham the exciting results obtained in the framework...

The new European project TALENT has already started. The launch meeting of this initiative led by CARTIF has taken place today at the center's facilities in the Boecillo Technology Park. This proyect, which brings together Spanish and European partners, will last...

The European Commission has approved the development of the European Life Landfill Biofuel project, which will transform the biogas from landfill into biomethane. The ultimate objective of this initiative, which has the participation of CARTIF, is to demonstrate the...

The City of Valladolid is actively participating in the European Mobility Week and all thanks to the European REMOURBAN project, an initiative funded by the EU and coordinated by the CARTIF Technology Centre, which has boosted the use of electric vehicles in...

On the occasion of the 6th follow-up meeting of the initiative, the mySMARTLife project, with CARTIF at the helm, has organized a ‘technological breakfast’ on Friday, September 20, 2019 in the Finnish city of Helsinki, where the research teams of the three cities...

Within the framework of the LIFE myBUILDINGisGREEN project, of which CARTIF is a participating partner, the Provincial Counsil of Badajoz will give a conference on November 13 in the city of Badajoz about the impact and functionality of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) as...

On September 18, the RENERPATH 2 project, led by the CARTIF Technology Centre, will offer an explanatory event on the energy rehabilitation of heritage buildings at The House of Culture of Ciudad Rodrigo. RENERPATH 2, which is in its final phase, aims to develop a...

The REZBUILD international project website, in which the CARTIF Technology Centre participates, has been nominated for the .EU Web Awards 2019, a distinction granted by the EURid platform to recognize the best websites within the range of .eu or .ею extensions....

On October 8, during the European Week of Regions and Cities in Brussels, the first three projects in the Horizon2020 funded Smart City Lighthouse Programme, REMOURBAN, Triangulum and GrowSmarter, will present their key findings at a joint event in Brussels, Belgium....

Next Tuesday, July 23 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Valladolid will host a technical conference of the international project RENERPATH 2. This initiative, coordinated by the CARTIF Technology Center and developed thanks to the collaboration between research...

Next Monday, July 8, CARTIF researchers Pedro Martín Lerones and David Olmedo will present, in the final review of the INCEPTION project held in Zagreb (Croatia), the progress made by the Valladolid technology centre within the framework of this initiative. CARTIF is...

On July 1 and 2, the University of Valladolid (Uva) hosted the IWAlgae 2019 congress, an event that included the II Congress of the International Water Association on Algal Technologies for the Treatment of Wastewater and Resource Recovery and the XII Congress of the...

Researchers from twelve institutions met on June 25, 26 and 27 at the University of Valladolid (UVa) to start the European project LOCOMOTION, which aims to improve the simulation tools used as support in the decision making process of political decisions related to...

The international REMOURBAN project, led by CARTIF, will offer to anyone interested the opportunity to discover the progress and achievements of the initiative through two webinars that will take place this June. The first of them, held on the 14th, will explore the...

The LIFE GySTRA project, coordinated by CARTIF, will hold on June 28 in Madrid a seminar on urban environmental policies and the exhaust gases of vehicles, focused on the potential of remote measurement to achieve a significant reduction of harmful emissions in the...

Good news for CARTIF. On the occasion of the XIV National Day of ASEFMA, the Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Asphalt Mixtures (ASEFMA) has awarded the LIFE BATTLE CO2 project, coordinated by the technological center from Valladolid, the Best Environmental...

The City Council of Valladolid and the URBAN GreenUP project, coordinated by CARTIF, have approved on Wednesday the installation of several mobile gardens distributed throughout the capital city. The agreed green sites are the following: a covering of the marquee of...

The Spanish Association of Manufacturers of Asphalt Mixtures (ASEFMA), through its technical committee, has recognized the LIFE BATTLE CO2 project, coordinated by CARTIF, as one of the four finalists of the sixth edition of the "Best Environmental Practices" Award...

On Wednesday, May 15, Technological Park of the city of Pando (Uruguay) held an international meeting of the BIOMETRANS project, coordinated by CARTIF, on the production of biomethane as a transport fuel from residual lignocellulosic biomass. Researchers from the...

The European Horizon 2020 program will offer a workshop on local energy communities on May 15 in Brussels, where four of its projects will be presented: COMPILE, MERLON, STORY and MUSE GRIDS. The latter has the participation of CARTIF. With the title “Local Energy...

On April 9, 24 European countries signed a declaration of cooperation to advance in the digitization of cultural heritage. This agreement will involve joint work to make the most appropriate use of state-of-the-art digital technologies in order to face the potential...

On April 1 and 2, the Maison des Chambres d'Agriculture in Paris, France, hosted the follow-up meeting of the NUTRIMAN project, of which CARTIF is a participant, on the occasion of the first 6 months of its development. The Assemblée Permanente Des Chambres...

The consortium partners of REZBUILD have laid the foundations of the three energy efficient demo sites that will be tested during this European Project. This major advance was achieved by setting the processes that will manage the sites in Madrid (Span), Oslo (Norway)...

Next April 24th, the final event of the LIFE BATTLE CO2 project, led by CARTIF, will be held at the office of the European Commission in Madrid. This initiative has succeeded in replacing 80% of the fossil fuels used in the manufacturing process of the asphalt plant...

The LIFE SMART HOSPITAL project has been selected among the 15 finalist projects for ‘the best project of the LIFE program (European Commission) in 2019’ award. This sample of recognition will be presented at the LIFE Awards Ceremony, which will take place in Brussels...

Representatives of all European Lighthouse Projects about smart cities met in San Sebastián (Spain) with the aim of signing again a new manifesto of common collaboration, like the previously signed a few months ago, because of the launch of two new projects, Making...