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CIMNE NEWSLETTER issue 13 # september 2023

NEWS

Five CIMNE projects awarded in the Generation of Knowledge 2022 call

Five of the proposals submitted by CIMNE to the "Generation of Knowledge 2022" received funding of 732,500 euros, representing a success rate of 45%. This call is cofunded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, through the State Research Agency, and the European Union.

These grants are addressed to fund Generation Knowledge Projects and training actions for the predoctoral research staff linked to these projects, in the framework of the State Programme to promote scientific-technical research and its transfer, of the State Plan for Scientific, Technical and Innovation Research 2021-2023.

NEWCOMERS

Interview to Xavier Tort Farrés, a new member of the SECCO2 project team

We interviewed Xavier Tort Farrés, a newcomer researcher at CIMNE. This summer, he joined the team working on the SECCO2 project. He is a civil engineer from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), where he is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering.

DISSEMINATION

CIMNE scientists received the Bathe Award 2023 for a paper about fluid structure interaction

The article "A fully Lagrangian formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface flows and fracturing solids" coauthored by CIMNE scientists Alejandro Cornejo, Alessandro Franci, Francisco Zárate and Eugenio Oñate has been awarded the Bathe Award 2023 by the Computers & Structures journal as the best article for the period 2021-2022.

TRAINING

Postgraduate micro-credential in smart road transport. Digitalization of the freight transport sector

Special training for those who want to learn how digitalization will impact logistics on the new Microcredential program offered by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and CENIT in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, Mobility, and Urban Agenda.

DISSEMINATION

Have you check the lastest issue of the Beegroup Newsletter? Do not miss out! Available in English, Spanish and Catalan.

WELCOMING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST!

SEEKING FOR NEW OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE YOUR RESEARCH CAREER?

CIMNE is looking for candidates who want to apply to different upcoming calls which fund researchers and R+D centres during different stages of their research career. We present some of them and we invitate us to follow-up our website section for Career opportunities.

DO NOT MISS OUT

We encourage you to check out the Twitter account @curro_lucas. Its creator is Francisco José Lucas Ochoa, the Head of Sustainable Aviation and Technical Assistance at Repsol. The account offers genuinely intriguing content related to engineering and its various applications.

This account is dedicated to publishing and curating educational content. You will find numerous posts featuring informative 3D graphics, all aimed at helping you comprehend how everything, from everyday objects to a nuclear power plant, functions.