Eurecat accelerates companies' innovation with high-impact technological solutions

The technology center Eurecat has received the National Award for Knowledge and Innovation Transfer 2025, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya, in recognition of its continuous work to improve business opportunities and social welfare through applied research, technological transfer, and innovation.

From this perspective, Eurecat has implemented more than 16,000 innovation projects and services aimed at transforming industrial processes, creating new products and business models, generating new technology-based business fabric, and strengthening Catalonia's technological and industrial sovereignty, with an impact of more than 1,250 million euros on the turnover of Catalan companies and entities.

"As one of the leading multidisciplinary technology centers in Europe, we provide companies with differential infrastructures and expertise that result in the acceleration of innovation, through technological solutions with an industrial, social, and environmental dimension," highlights the president of Eurecat, Daniel Altimiras.

To this end, he adds, Eurecat "facilitates the validation and scaling of technology in pre-industrial and industrial phases, close to the environments where it must operate and generate real impact, with the aim of transforming knowledge into operational solutions and accelerating its industrial adoption".

In the business field, the technological center has driven innovation to transform knowledge into real business with more than 3,500 companies from all sectors and entities, with which it has implemented innovative solutions that have reached the market.

“Eurecat's ultimate purpose is to improve the competitiveness of companies, especially small and medium-sized ones, by accelerating and intensifying their innovative activity, anticipating their needs,” emphasizes the general director of Eurecat, Xavier López.

To achieve this, it leads transformative technologies focused on industrial autonomy and technological sovereignty, the new digital era, health and well-being throughout people's lives, as well as environmental quality and climate resilience.

Within this framework, it integrates capabilities in five major areas of knowledge linked to digital technologies, cyber-physical systems, materials and manufacturing processes, life and health sciences and technologies, and environmental sciences and technologies, which it converges to respond to the complex challenges of companies and society, such as ensuring the availability of critical raw materials.

Transforming scientific knowledge into innovation with economic and social impact 

The technological centre's multi-technological, multi-sectoral and pre-industrial scaling capacity for new solutions has also resulted in 250 active patents and the creation of 12 deeptech spin-off companies. With a team of over 850 highly qualified professionals and 11 locations across the territory, Eurecat transforms scientific knowledge into innovation with economic and social impact in a context marked by a technological revolution characterised by acceleration and the irruption of numerous technologies.

In recent years, it has promoted leading technological infrastructures in Catalonia aimed at innovation in areas such as intelligent robotics, decarbonisation, sustainable mobility and plastronics, in order to advance technological sovereignty and contribute to making industry more resilient and competitive.

An example of these capabilities is that the European Commission has entrusted Eurecat to lead the consortium that will develop the European artificial intelligence model for industrial robotics, promoting the development of its own solutions, so that it can have reliable and competitive technologies and reduce dependence on external models and platforms.

Eurecat has also begun the deployment of QuantIA Lab, a new quantum emulation and optimisation infrastructure unique in Catalonia to accelerate R&D&I in the business fabric and solve real industry challenges through advanced quantum computing and artificial intelligence technologies. The objective is to offer a safe and stable environment for companies to experiment and prepare for when quantum computers are fully operational.

In addition to supporting existing industry to be fully digitised and sustainable, Eurecat offers capabilities and knowledge to accompany new companies in the industrialisation process of new products, so that they can successfully reach the market.