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Fitec will be the r & d space in three events in Fira de Barcelona

28/02/2005

on February 28, 2005

Fitec, space r & d in exhibition contests, organized by the Fundació Catalana per a the Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI), will be the framework specializing in technology transfer, University-industry in three rooms of Barcelona fair this year. The first will be BTA-Barcelona Tecnoalimentaria, international salon of the food technology (from 18 to 22 February 2005). He will then attend Ecomed-Pollutec, international salon of energy and the environment (from 8 to 11 March); and to Expoquimia, international chemical exhibition (from 14 to 18 November).

Fully consolidated as a platform for technology transfer between science and business in the main Spanish fairs, Fitec will celebrate its sixth edition in BTA-Barcelona Tecnoalimentaria, where expected to be submitted more than 20 scientific projects of interest to the food industry from universities and Spanish research centres. You will also have a 15 points of information with the scientific-technological these institutions offer addressed to companies in the food sector.

From 8 to 11 March, the seventh edition of Fitec will be the Ecomed - Pollutec technology space. It's the second time that Fitec come to this Hall of Fira de Barcelona after his participation in the 2003 Edition. In addition, it is the third time that this space opera in a competition on the environment, after the presence of Fitec as space technology of the Salon Proma'04 of Bilbao (fair international of the environment). A stand of 200 square meters for the submission of projects for universities and research centres in the environmental sector and the installation of points of information will be provided at the Barcelona event. Failing to close the deadline for the submission of applications, Fitec organization provides for the presence of other 20 institutions and to present some 30 scientific-technological projects in Ecomed-Pollutec.

With regard to Expoquimia, third room Barcelona fair which will attend Fitec in 2005 (from 14 to 18 November), expected broad participation that could be widely over the data reached during Expoquimia'02 (30 universities and centres of research exhibitors and 20 scientific projects), Edition in which Fitec already functioned as space technology of the fair.