IREC has once again taken part in the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026, held from 2 to 5 March at Fira Gran Via, Barcelona. Recognized as the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event, MWC…
Today, Oxhyd Energy S.L. is officially launched as a new technology startup created in Barcelona as a spin-off of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) and the Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies…
IREC has led the SUPORT consortium, which has developed and validated an innovative process to produce sustainable maritime fuels from wastewater and CO₂ generated during its treatment, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, Aigües…
The HySPRINT project (Hydrogen Scale-up and Production through Innovative high-temperature SOEC manufacturing techniques optimized with AI and Quality control Tools) has officially started, aiming to make high-temperature electrolysis cells more sustainable, cost-effective, and recyclable. The…
As digitalization accelerated and the Big Data era expanded, the need for faster and more energy-efficient computing architectures became increasingly evident. Traditional Von Neumann systems could no longer keep pace with modern workloads—particularly artificial intelligence—because…
IREC is a partner in the PHOTO-RECIRCUIT project, entitled “Photovoltaic-integrated recycled steel circuit boards for sustainable low-power IoT electronics”. It is a public–private collaborative initiative funded under the Spanish programme Ayudas a Proyectos de Colaboración…
IREC has successfully validated the commercial viability of AutoMeth, an innovative autothermal catalytic reactor for the production of renewable methane from biogas and green hydrogen, paving the way for its market deployment through a dedicated…
The UAB has opened the first international call for applications to the PHYNEST doctoral programme, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND initiative funded under the Horizon Europe framework, where IREC is a partner. The call…
The European project HELIOS, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, has concluded after 4 years of work with significant progress toward safer, more efficient and more sustainable battery systems for urban electric mobility. The initiative,…
After three years of intensive work, the ColdSpark® project ended, holding its final event in Stavanger on the 26th of November 2025. The project focused on the development of non-thermal plasma methane technology to produce…