Challenges on circular economy and technology from companies within the territory
Seven Catalan companies have proposed different challenges in the fields of technology 4.0 and circular economy, so undergraduate and FP students work collaboratively by looking for answers during the project Innovation Day.
Innovation Day: Talent Solutions is an initiative promoted by the Molins de Rei town hall and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with support of the Diputació de Barcelona, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Citilab, and the town halls of Cervelló, Corbera de Llobregat, El Papiol, La Palma de Cervelló, Pallejà, Sant Vicenç dels Horts, and Vallirana, which want to bring technology to service the university community to give an answer, thanks to open innovation and collaboration, to the new contexts, necessities, and challenges to companies.
The goal is to connect companies that are looking for innovative solutions to their business challenges in the fields of technology 4.0 and circular economy with FP seniors, undergraduate seniors, PhD candidates, and FP and college graduates from technology fields who offer solutions to said challenges. The program wants to give participants the necessary entrepreneurial competences and techniques of ideation and prototyping for the development of innovative solutions.
October 1st will be the date of the first brainstorming session, a day to generate ideas from the business challenges dynamised by the UAB Research Park. Participants will break into groups from 4 to 10 to develop an answer proposal to the challenge they have chosen. The activity is targeted towards all of the community within UAB, especially students.
These are the challenges the companies have created:
- Carpel-Min is a company focused on the tailored design and fabrication of industrial machinery that is looking for solutions that help companies to migrate a more sustainable for any product that incorporates electronic circuits.
- Adec Global, focused on the demolition, management, and revaluation of industrial and construction waste, has the challenge of reducing the consumption of natural resources and substituting them for more sustainable, high-quality recycled products.
- Grupo Adtel, focused on integrating solutions in the field of telecommunications and audiovisuals, wants to improve the energetic efficiency within all the fields of the company, whether in the offices, the equipment, or their solutions.
- Menshen Iber, which manufactures packaging products by plastic injections, wants to automate processes thanks to artificial intelligence.
- QKSOL Energy Solutions is dedicated to trading the intermediation of solar energy products, energy management, and electric vehicle charging points. They want to create a platform so local businesses can introduce themselves and interact.
- ROHU Innovations is specialised in using drones as the main tool for data science to give integral solutions to industrial and agricultural companies. They are looking to develop a software platform that allows a detailed and analytical view of agricultural reports generated by the drone solutions in precision agriculture.
- Instavi needs an analysis of their organisation and their main processes and to detect and implement improvement points to achieve sustainable growth for the company.
