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Vegetation in buildings and specifically in facades can have significant advantages in energy saving. This is shown by Gabriel Perez in his doctoral thesis, a collaboration between the UPC and the University of Lleida.

E.ON invites applications from universities and research institutes worldwide for research proposals that examine the impact of smart home systems on the future relationship between utilities and customers.

On November 7, Solvin Spain SL (Solvay Group) signed a consortium agreement to become a partner of Energy Campus.

Representatives of different universities from Asian and Eastern Europe visit UPC to learn how to develop PhD programmes in their centers. The visit is part of the EU project CREDO (Creation of Third Cycle Studies - Doctoral Program in Renewable Energy and Environmental Technology).

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), research center linked to UPC.BarcelonaTech, represents Spain in the coordination of the Mont-Blanc Project, aimed at building the supercomputer with the highest performance and the lowest energy consumption in the world. The energy eficiency of the new machine is the priority of the research.

Energy Access for the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goals

The on line version of Nature Communications publishes this month the work about this new material exhibiting an inverse barocaloric effect: they cool when pressure is applied, and they warm when it is released. The research has been undertaken by researchers from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.BarcelonaTECH and Universitat de Barcelona, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science.