The Universitat Jaume I, together with the VIA University College in Denmark (“VIA-UJI équipe”), have started the second phase of the Solar Decathlon 2014 competition with the official presentation of the project éBRICKhouse in Paris. The project developed by VIA-UJI team is an urban proposal aimed at creating sustainable locations with a marked European identity. [...]
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The UJI presents its project for the European Solar Decathlon competition in Paris
May 20th, 2013
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International Certification of Biótica’s MP4-Hunter system for its quick detection test of Legionella, Legipid
May 20th, 2013
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The AOAC international certification has validated Biótica’s MP4-Hunter. The system developed by the company settled at the Science Park in the Universitat Jaume I enables to perform up to 40 Legionella tests per analyst in an hour. The Legipid® Legionella Fast Detection Test achieves this speed thanks to an analysis technique based on capture and [...]
The Trident submarine robot project is successfully tested at sea
April 19th, 2013
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In its final assessment, Trident European project has submerged its I-AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle for intervention) in the Port of Sóller (Mallorca). The vehicle has been able to find and retrieve independently an object in an unknown seabed facing the adverse conditions presented by the open ocean. More information. UCC+i UJI. April 2013
The UJI publishes a guide on the ornamental flora on Riu Sec Campus
April 8th, 2013
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The university press Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I has added to its catalogue the work of the renowned biologist Ricard Pitarch García entitled Guia de la flora ornamental de la Universitat Jaume I. Un campus per a la biodiversitat, in which the author catalogues and describes the ornamental flora on campus. The book contains [...]
The scientific news agency SINC has just turned five
March 12th, 2013
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The Scientific Information and News Service (SINC), part of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), is the first Spanish public agency specialized in information science, technology and innovation in Spanish. The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC + i) from the Universitat Jaume I cooperates with this agency spreading through its digital platform [...]
Paints with greater anti-corrosive protection
February 19th, 2013
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Researchers from the UJI are working in a new coating that provides metals with a greater protection against corrosion thanks to its better adhesion to the metal surface and its anti-corrosive properties. More information. UCC+i UJI. February 2013
Biodegradable coating for dental implants
February 4th, 2013
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The elderly, people with osteoporosis, smokers, diabetics or people who have suffered from cancer sometimes cannot choose to get a dental implant since their bones have lost the ability to integrate adequately the new prosthesis that replaces the root. The coating of these implants, using a new biodegradable material developed by researchers from the Universitat [...]
January 27th, 2013
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The widespread belief that dopamine regulates pleasure may pass into history with the latest scientific advances about the function of this neurotransmitter, which demonstrate that, in fact, it regulates motivation, leading individuals to get going and persevere in order to achieve something, either positive or negative. The journal of neuroscience ‘Neuron’ publishes an article written [...]
The UJI opens the Centre for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation, Espaitec II
November 29th, 2012
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Espaitec, the Science, Technology and Business Park at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló, has opened the Centre for Knowledge Exchange and Innovation, Espaitec II, the second building of this park aimed at housing technology-based companies on their growth and consolidation phase. Five technology-based companies are already carrying out their activity in the new installations [...]
2012, Year of Neuroscience at the UJI
November 21st, 2012
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The Universitat Jaume I joins to the celebration of 2012 as the Year of Neuroscience in Spain. This video provides a tour around the various campus laboratories from different perspectives, which address science from different perspectives, a science that tells us about the foundation of our feelings, thoughts and emotions, our social behaviour, our creativity [...]
