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Around fifty representatives of companies from Navarra have attended a conference organised by Navarra’s Regional Government and ENERCLUSTER.

A researcher from Rioja has been awarded a grant to pursue her post-doctoral studies at Navarrabiomed-IdiSNA.

This talented young researcher is receiving funding as part of the Junior Leader post-doctoral grants programme, which allocated a total of 45 grants in 2021 to outstanding researchers.

The programme pursues two objectives: to support talented individuals from Spain and Portugal, allowing them to remain in their home country and carry out their projects in the best conditions; and to internationalise the research system of Spain and Portugal, attracting promising international researchers.

The public company owned by Navarra’s Regional Government will introduce its services to Cordoba’s Municipal Water Company (EMACSA), “which currently serves some 325,000 people”, starting on 1st February. With this agreement, Tracasa will be working with twelve entities managing the whole water cycle in the national territory.

The goal of the two-year Zero Plastics project, funded by Navarra’s Regional Government, is to develop new packaging solutions that do not contain plastics. The partners of the initiative are the Naitec technology centre and the companies Solidus Solutions, Global Local Solutions, Goikoa, Florette, Palacios, Exkal, and Viscofan.

The firm from Navarra won an international public tender competition, launched by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Government of Honduras through the electricity firm Empresa Nacional de Energía Eléctrica. It will develop two hybrid micro-networks totalling 1 MWp of photovoltaic energy, 2.19 MWh of storage, and 1.950 kVA in backup generators. The facilities, representing an investment of around $8 million (€6.9 million), will benefit more than 10,000 people.

This year, Puente la Reina, a company that produces organic virgin olive oil and snacks, condiments, and olive by-products, will start selling its products in the south of France. And, in 2023, the company will alsolaunch in the United States and Canada, as Manuel Román, a partner of the company, told Navarra Capital. In addition, it plans to increase the number of hectares of olive groves it has in Tierra Estella almost sevenfold and is spearheading the Up4Health project, with ten European partners and a budget of 4 million. The aim: “to recover grape, olive, and nut waste as natural and healthy by-products”.

Palobiofarma has been selected as one of the 99 most innovative companies in the European Innovation Council Accelerator. As a result, this company based in Navarra, with the support of Sodena, has received approval for the European project that finances phase II of the PBF-680 product in EPOC and granted financial support amounting to EUR 2.5 million. In addition, it has been offered the possibility of partial funding for phase III of this product through a capital investment of an additional EUR 15 million in the form of a capital increase.

He has announced the incorporation of environmental sustainability as a new focus for action in the presentation of Navarra’s S4 Smart Specialisation Strategy