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Jordi Berenguer, new Vice-rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the UPC, highlights in a recent interview with The New Barcelona Post the importance of promoting a university model that guarantees that research has a real impact on society, especially through collaboration with business and the creation of jobs. He highlights the Fractus experience as a paradigmatic case of innovation successfully transferred from the university to the market, and claims the key role of spin-offs as a driver of the country's economic and technological transformation.

The digital publication 'Emprendedores' highlights in this news four calls that help develop projects or business ideas, among which is the Next Frontier Founders program. Promoted within the framework of the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub, it is aimed at university 'spin offs' or 'start-apps', which arose on the initiative of the UPC community and which is open until July 15.

This article from El Periódico, published on May 30, explains how industrial engineering, telecommunications, computer science and mathematics students prepare for the Formula Student competition, where they test the vehicle they have worked on all year on different European circuits. This summer, the BCN eMotorsport team, made up of students from ETSEIB and ETSETB, two teaching centers of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), will do so with the CAT17x, which incorporates technology from Fractus, one of the sponsors of this vehicle, to improve the telemetry system of this electric and autonomous vehicle.

Strengthening UPC start-ups and spin-offs and helping them attract funding is the aim of Next Frontier Founders, a programme designed to prepare and connect entrepreneurs with investors to grow their tech-based businesses. UPC entrepreneurs who have launched a company—or are in the process of doing so—can apply to take part in this programme between 2 June and 15 July.

Summary of the news published in the digital version of the newspaper El Periódico, on April 16, dedicated to Fractus, born as a spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and which exemplifies the transformative potential when academic excellence is combined with entrepreneurial vision. The company’s revolutionary development of the miniature multiband antenna — enabling internal integration into mobile phones at the dawn of their mass adoption — demonstrates the vital role universities play in fostering technological breakthroughs that reshape entire industries.

The video ‘Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub. Towards the most disruptive technology’ showcases the Hub’s efforts to promote and support innovation, student talent and entrepreneurship within the UPC community across the most disruptive fields. This partnership focuses on projects with high potential for social impact, in fields such as healthcare and telecommunications.

A new call for applications is open for the UPC Research Valorisation Award, organised by the UPC’s Board of Trustees in collaboration with Fractus. The award aims to recognise the work of UPC research groups in several valorisation categories. Applications can be submitted electronically until 10 April.

As part of the actions of the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub, Fractus supports the BCN eMotorsport team, made up of students from the Barcelona Technical School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) and the Barcelona Technical School of Telecommunication Engineering (ETSETB) of the UPC and which will compete, next summer, in the Formula Student, the biggest university motoring event. It is a competition in which engineering students from all over the world participate by designing and building a Formula 1 style car to pass various tests.

Once again, the UPC and the company Fractus have been very present in the technological event that takes place in Barcelona in the environment of deep tech and that, this year, coincided with the call for the Smart City Expo World Congress. Fractus participated in the sessions titled "Matching corporations with start-ups", which took place on November 5 at the Conectio Event.  In turn, the University presented its entrepreneurial ecosystem

The dissemination of deep tech is also one of the relevant objectives of the Fractus UPC Deep Tech Hub. For this reason, the UPC, in collaboration with the Hub, has just released an episode of the “Algorrritmes” podcast series, which explains what deep tech is and some keys to the creation of the Fractus company. The program featured Carles Puente, co-founder of Fractus and professor at ETSETB, and Eneko Ibarlucea, a young Fractus professional and alumni of UPC,