As we already told you, since mid-2015 we have been working together with the coordination team of the European project RRI Tools in the development of several communication products related to the project. RRI is the acronym for Responsible Research and Innovation, an EU strategy...
Before the Pokemon Go fever, augmented reality (AR) was already a useful and promising technology, since it allows us to enrich the physical reality around us with digital information easily accessible through a smartphone or tablet. In this video we made for the Open University of...
This year we had the pleasure to collaborate again with the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), which keeps on doing successful and high level science. As we did last year, our project consisted on structuring, designing and developing a practical and clear website to...
On 16th March, the website and results of the TRAM-S project (TRAnsfer of results of Medical research to decision-making in the Sanitary field) were presented. The project main outcomes consisted on building an online tool to assess clinical practice guidelines (CPG) quality and, at the...
In molecular biology, the PI3K family of enzymes is known for its role in controlling processes such as protein synthesis, cell growth and survival, and migration. However, its use as a potential therapeutic target is still in its early stages and more research is needed;...
The Ateneus de Fabricació is a network of public FabLabs promoted by the Barcelona City Council aimed at transforming neighborhoods and promoting social innovation through the talent and the activity of its citizens. One of the most important challenges about the Ateneus initiative is to...
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are utterly inundating every aspect of our daily lives. Actually, their potential was already expected and, in fact, even the former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said that they could improve the lives of everyone on the planet. In...
At Ubik we find important to help universities transferring their knowledge for the sake of all society. In this sense, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) has gained some experience in the application of Augmented Reality (AR), mainly in education but not only. Basically, AR...
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) of Barcelona is one of the main research centres devoted to health and human diseases in Spain, and one of the best in Europe. In fact, last year –and according to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2013– nearly...
Last March a new edition of the Open Thoughts blog started, and in this case is asking to all contributors Are Big Data & Analytics shaping a smarter society? Its aim is to reflect about the huge amount of data being generated every day, which...
