Sener and Eurecat Collaborate on Multisector Innovation and Industrial Scaling

Sener and Eurecat Collaborate on Multisector Innovation and Industrial Scaling

(IN BRIEF) Engineering group Sener and technology center Eurecat have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly develop disruptive technologies and scalable solutions across various sectors. This collaboration, which emphasizes open innovation and knowledge exchange, aims to address complex technological challenges in areas such as digitalization, sustainability, hydrogen, carbon capture and use, sustainable mobility, offshore wind, and resource management. Sener, a global engineering firm, and Eurecat, Catalonia’s primary technology center, will work together to promote industrial scalability and accelerate the application of innovative technologies to real-world challenges.

(PRESS RELEASE) MADRID, 27-Nov-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — SENER, a Spanish private engineering and technology group, has joined forces with the Eurecat technology center to drive innovation across various sectors. The collaboration will focus on areas like digitalization, sustainability, carbon capture and use, hydrogen, sustainable mobility, offshore wind, and resource management. By forming hybrid and multidisciplinary teams, both organizations aim to develop disruptive technologies and scalable solutions. This partnership reinforces their commitment to open innovation, innovation cycle acceleration, and the transfer of cutting-edge technology to practical applications.

According to Òscar Julià, Sener’s Director of Innovation, strategic collaborations are essential for addressing complex technological challenges and fostering open and collaborative innovation models, stating, “for a highly diversified group like Sener, it is essential to establish strategic collaborations that connect us with the ecosystem. Society and the economy address very complex technological challenges (in the field of energy, mobility, digitalization, among many others) that require open and collaborative innovation models.” The collaboration between Eurecat and Sener aims to promote the industrial scalability of disruptive technologies and their application across various industries. Xavier López, Corporate and Industrial General Director of Eurecat Operations, highlighted the agreement’s potential to enhance collaboration, deploy new technologies, and facilitate knowledge exchange, stating, “thus establish synergies aimed at promoting the industrial scalability of disruptive and cutting-edge technologies, in addition to leading their application in the company’s value chain and the industrial sector. The strategic agreement with Sener will allow for closer ties of collaboration between both institutions, materialize the deployment of new technologies and enhance the exchange of knowledge.”

This partnership targets systematic innovation in areas such as industrial digitalization, sustainability, hydrogen, carbon capture and use, sustainable mobility, offshore wind, and resource management. Sener, with over 3,400 professionals worldwide, specializes in aerospace, energy, mobility, infrastructure, data center engineering, digitalization, and naval projects. Meanwhile, Eurecat, Catalonia’s primary technology center and one of southern Europe’s largest private research organizations, offers applied R&D, technological services, specialized training, and technological consulting to nearly 2,000 companies. The center’s interdisciplinary, multi-technological, and multi-sectoral approach enables a systemic technological perspective to drive innovation tailored to various industry needs. Eurecat actively participates in over 200 national and international R&D consortium projects, delivering added value through innovation acceleration and specialized knowledge tailored to individual companies.

SOURCE: SENER group