• The agreement promotes the growth of Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem, boosting technology transfer processes and accelerating the dynamics of innovation.

Barcelona, 8 May 2024. – Technology centre Eurecat has joined Tech Barcelona as an Institutional Partner with the aim of fostering technology transfer processes and accelerating the innovation dynamics of Barcelona’s startups and corporations. The agreement represents a significant opportunity for collaboration and advancement in applied research and technological development in the region.

As a result, Eurecat will provide companies and startups in the Tech Barcelona ecosystem – made up of more than 1,400 members and 90 partners – with new resources to facilitate the generation of technological solutions that respond to their innovation challenges, both in the approach to new products, services or innovative processes, and in the development of concept and prototype tests and support in their scalability.

“Eurecat technology centre will collaborate with Tech Barcelona as an Institutional Partner with the aim of bringing its multi-technology capabilities to its ecosystem of companies and startups and facilitating innovation and technology transfer as a lever to generate differential value, competitiveness and growth,’ said Miquel Rey, Business general director at Eurecat.

‘We are confident that this collaboration will add value to the technological differential of the Tech Barcelona ecosystem, bringing Eurecat’s knowledge to help entrepreneurs and investors achieve their growth objectives through technology transfer and the development of solutions that benefit both locally and globally,’ said Miquel Rey, who stressed ‘Eurecat’s commitment to excellence in technological innovation and collaboration with other entities in the sector to promote technological, business and scientific progress in Barcelona and beyond.

According to Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, ‘the association is a transversal platform that integrates the ecosystem and, for this reason, it is crucial to have reference centres in digital transformation and technology such as Eurecat. This collaboration will allow us to accelerate the innovation processes that we promote through our activity with start-ups and large companies’.

Overall, the technology centre offers startups its highly advanced skills and knowledge in digital, industrial, biotech and sustainability technologies: from artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cybersecurity and robotics, to quantum technologies, voice technologies and augmented and virtual reality, among others.

• The online business school, a member of the association since 2022, reinforces its commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship and talent in Barcelona’s technology ecosystem

Barcelona, 11 de abril de 2024. – The online business school IEBS Digital School has become a new Corporate Partner of Tech Barcelona, the private non-profit association that supports the technological and digital ecosystem of Barcelona. The agreement aims to promote innovation, support entrepreneurship and continue connecting talent with startups and corporations in the technology sector.

Founded in 2009, and a member of Tech Barcelona since 2022, IEBS Digital School is a digital and technology-native business school, focused on developing leaders with an entrepreneurial spirit and committed to innovation, ethics and sustainability. They have a broad international presence, which allows them to enrich the educational experience with a diverse global vision. Since its inception, IEBS has trained more than 175,000 students in 60 countries with more than 350 programmes at the forefront of innovation. In 2021, IEBS joined DIGITALENT GROUP, a leading educational group in the digital era, to strengthen its online training offer and expand its presence in the international market.

According to Susana López, CEO of IEBS Digital School: “At IEBS, the partnership with Tech Barcelona consolidates our commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship. We share the vision of a strong and thriving digital ecosystem, where collaboration will be key to foster creativity, support entrepreneurship and strengthen the entrepreneurial fabric in the city of Barcelona.

Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, assures that “the technology and digital sector needs to be nurtured by the best entrepreneurial talent and, in this sense, business schools play a crucial role”. “With this alliance, IEBS Digital School, which has embraced a digital approach since its inception, agile in the face of change and with a clear vision for the future, strengthens its connection with the more than 1,300 partners and 90 partner organisations that Tech Barcelona represents, and demonstrates its commitment to the growth of the city’s technology ecosystem.

• The agreement will allow the Catalan energy and telecommunications company to connect with startups in Barcelona’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.

• ERIA has a budget of 600,000 euros for 2024 and has already launched an equity-free acceleration programme for energy, telecommunications and Smart Home startups.

Barcelona, 10 April 2024. – Estabanell, a historic Catalan energy and telecommunications company, has joined Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner through ERIA, its new corporate venturing company created to foster collaboration with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, promote projects with third parties and, beyond internal innovation, reduce the development and time to market of new solutions to a minimum. The agreement will allow Estabanell to connect with startups in Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem represented by the association.

ERIA, which has a budget of 600,000 euros for 2024, promotes an equity-free acceleration programme aimed at pre-seed and seed startups in the energy, telecommunications and Smart Home sectors. During the six-month programme, the selected startups will receive business and sector-specific support from professionals from the Estabanell Group and AtticoLab’s network of mentors. In addition, the startups will receive direct support of up to €10,000 non-refundable and access to the infrastructure of the different companies of the Estabanell Group to test concepts and technology aimed at the customer and the responsible and sustainable development of society.

The three challenges posed in the first edition of Eria’s acceleration programme are linked to renewable energy generation, energy distribution and the commercialisation of energy and telecommunications services. The call for startups is open until 29 April.

Josep Solé, director of ERIA, assures that “ERIA is another step forward in Estabanell’s historical commitment to innovation. We want to work side by side with innovation agents, which is why the alliance with Tech Barcelona is fundamental for us to get even more involved with the tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem. We want to be a benchmark platform for startups linked to the energy, telecommunications and Smart Home sectors, which will find a strategic partner in ERIA”.

For Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “Estabanell is a clear example of how a company with a heritage of more than 100 years is capable of betting on the present and looking to the future. Its open innovation model involves startups to create new disruptive technological solutions and ultimately fosters the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem”.