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INDESCAT has participated in the 4th face-to-face meeting of the I3-INSHAPE project, held in the city of Lahti, Finland, on April 8 and 9 and organized by LADEC and LAB University of Applied Sciences. This meeting has focused on work packages 2 and 3, which try to find SMEs that enter the project to solve the needs of the Flagships (leading emerging companies that represent each region) among which is Onalabs Inno-Hub, the Catalan Flagship and partner of INDESCAT.

We interviewed Cristina Marín, co-founder and general manager of BIWPA, the Barcelona International Water Polo Academy, which promotes a unique training methodology focused on improving individual technique and tactics, as well as perfecting foundations and decision-making. Regarding the challenges of the entity, Marín highlights that "in the short term, August 2024, we will organise for the first time the Summer Academy in Los Angeles aimed at athletes from the area. In the long term, we are working to replicate our academy in California". The co-founder of BIWPA explains that being part of INDESCAT will allow them to "seek synergies with clubs or private entities in the sports tourism sector, and also with technology companies that will facilitate and streamline processes (registration, database management, etc.)".

INDESCAT offers a new service for tenders and bids. It is a new platform, integrated to our intranet, with access to 2M tenders, awards and minor contracts in Spain and Portugal.

The international cycling festival Sea Otter Europe Costa Brava Girona by Continental, which is held in Girona on September 20, 21 and 22, and INDESCAT, have renewed their strategic collaboration agreement by which they seek to combine synergies to enhance the cycling sector. sport.

The decarbonisation of sports facilities, water management, future solutions to the ban on the use of microplastics in artificial turf, digitalisation as a tool to help sports facilities become more energy efficient, and the use of geothermal energy in sports equipment. These were the topics discussed at EFISport 2024, this year's 11th edition of which included, as a novelty, the Open Innovation Challenge competition. The annual event, which was attended by more than 170 people, is organised by INDESCAT, with the collaboration of the Clúster de l'Energia Eficient de Catalunya (CEEC), the Clúster de la Bioenergia de Catalunya (CBC) and the Catalan Water Partnership. During the event, held on 13 March at the INEFC in Barcelona, participants were also able to visit the EFISport Marketplace, where solutions, products and services for the maintenance and implementation of energy efficiency measures were presented.

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Support through data, tailored to the specific needs of SMEs, is one of the cornerstones of the three-year (2023-2026) I3-INSHAPE project. INDESCAT, representing Catalonia, will contribute to this project by leading Work Package 3, which mission is to engage further SMEs to contribute to the flagship investment cases, already developed in a previous phase, via open calls and to launch a second stream of interregional innovation investment cases supported by the I3-INSHAPE ecosystem support services.