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A new step towards the Diagonal-Besòs Campus

On Monday June 14, the 5th edition of the Tech Summer Sessions open with a series of debates and workshops that bring together leading experts in Barcelona, Spain, from the international stage of energy, water and mobility. Since their beginning five years ago, these sessions targeted primarily at professionals have generated knowledge and continued the formulation and construction of the future Diagonal-Besòs Campus.

Clara Cardona | 10 june 2010

The Diagonal-Besòs Campus aims to create a space of economic development where business and knowledge meet in three key areas: energy, water and mobility. The Tech Summer Sessions (TSS) are a physical meeting of researchers from these three subject areas along with teachers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, technicians, research staff, business developers and recent graduates looking to start a career, among many others. Once a year, TSS carries out the functions that will one day take place on the Campus on a daily basis. Additionally, these meetings give rise to new business opportunities and generate new economic activity.

The TSS this year will be held at the headquarters of Barcelona Activa and will begin on June 14&15 along with the MIT Conference. These two initial sessions will consist of a series of lectures, discussions and workshops designed to make available to the attendees the latest developments on energy, water and mobility delivered by experts from leading international technology centers like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Energy Week, the second block of the TSS consisting of specialized workshops on the relevant issues debated during the MIT Conference, will be held from June 28 to July 2.

The TSS are promoted by the b TEC Foundation, an organization that is leading the design, organization and management of the Campus. In this organization MIT, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona are also involved. This year, the TSS count on experts such as MIT Professor Daniel G. Nocera, named one of the most important researchers of 2009 by Time magazine, the Italian architect Carlo Ratti, Director of SENSEable City Lab and one of the leading voices in urban planning and technology, and the desalination expert John H. Lienhard, Director of the Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT.

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