The basque scientist Mercedes Maroto-Valer, director of the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre (IDRIC) and deputy director of Global Sustainability at Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom, won the Net-Zero Industries Award in the category of ‘Innovative Woman’ this Friday at a ceremony held in the framework of the United Nations Climate Change Conference…
Etiqueta: Basque Country
LUR-1, the first 100% Basque satellite: The leadership of AVS for placing the Basque Country “on the map of the world and of space”
During his visit to the AVS facilities located on the Euskadi Technology Park’s Vitoria-Gasteiz Campus, Iñigo Urkullu gained knowledge about the company’s forthcoming space missions. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) The company was awarded the NASA ROADS mission today. It is also in charge of the LUR-1 Project, which is the first satellite to be used…
Petronor starts renewable hydrogen production
The Basque Country produces the first renewable hydrogen thanks to a 2.5 MW electrolyser located at Petronor that supplies the Energy Intelligence Center, as well as the company’s new offices at the Ezkerraldea-Meatzaldea Technology Park in Abanto Zierbena. (Autor: Elda Campos Lavín) In addition, this renewable hydrogen will also be used in the first buses…
Project for the production of green hydrogen
It has a contribution of 1.5 million euros from CIEMAT and will be carried out at the Vitoria-Gasteiz School of Engineering. (Autor: Ainhoa López-Abadía Urresti) The Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research (CIEMAT) has awarded a 1.5 million euro grant for the offshore wind energy development and green hydrogen production project at the Vitoria-Gasteiz…
GAIKER Unveils Innovative Hybrid Materials for the Advancement of Space Industry
The HIPERION initiative aims to enhance and foster research in the field of space technology and science. (Autor: Ainhoa López-Abadía Urresti) Space technology and science drive economic and technological development. The HIPERION project by GAIKER Technology Centre promotes research in space technology to enhance the positioning of companies in the Basque Autonomous Community. It focuses…
Advances in 3D Printing for Solid-State Battery Manufacturing at CIC energiGUNE
CIC energiGUNE, a leading energy storage center in the Basque region, is participating as a research partner in the 3DSTORE project. The project, led by IREC, focuses on leveraging 3D printing technology to enable the manufacturing of solid-state batteries for IoT connected devices. (Autor: Ainhoa López-Abadía Urresti) CIC energiGUNE, a leading Basque research center in…
TECNALIA and Umiles Next unveil future mobility solutions with remote and automated driving vehicles
TECNALIA and Umiles Next showcased Intellydrive technology at the Mobility Solutions Show in Toulouse. This technology combines intelligence, local automated driving, remote vehicle management, and platooning for automated vehicle tracking, offering cost and safety advantages. This collaboration further advances their efforts in shaping future mobility, building upon their previous work on the Concept Integrity air…
The UPV/EHU’s Planetary Sciences Group is taking part in the European Space Agency’s Juice mission
The initiative will explore whether there are conditions for life on the planet Jupiter and its satellites. (Autor: Ainhoa López-Abadía Urresti) Ricardo Hueso and Agustín Sánchez Lavega, researchers of the UPV/EHU’s Planetary Sciences Group, are participating in the JUICE mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). This mission aims to explore the icy moons of…
The Department of Education and Ikerbasque recognise and raise the profile of the work of women researchers
The Ikerbasque Evaluation Committee has selected the three researchers who will be recognised for their work this year. In this fifth edition, the researchers Alicia Alonso, Ainhoa Magrach and Sara Barja will receive recognition from the Department of Education and Ikerbasque. The aim of the initiative is to raise the profile of Basque women researchers…
POLYMAT research unveils the exceptional performance and stability of cutting-edge solar cells
Juan Luis Delgado, an Ikerbasque researcher at POLYMAT and UPV/EHU, contributes to an international collaborative project recently published in the renowned journal JACS. (Autor: Ainhoa López-Abadía Urresti) Juan Luis Delgado, Ikerbasque researcher at POLYMAT and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in collaboration with researchers from the University of Oxford (UK), has published an…










