Technology for Social Innovation 2026 concludes with final presentations
TeSI is one of the tech-driven innovation courses offered as part of the TECH2X EU project.
The 2026 edition of Technology for Social Innovation (TeSI) – one the tech-driven innovation courses offered as part of TECH2X – has concluded on 29th May with the project presentations of the multidisciplinary teams from Esade, UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and IED Barcelona (Istituto Europeo di Design). Students have worked over 15 weeks with the following technologies and researchers:
Hopfel (European XFEL): A mathematical “early-warning + control” approach to help free-electron lasers produce more a tipping point and guiding operators on how to tune it.
Scera (CSIC-UPC): A reusable nanostructured ceramic that captures and destroys pollutants in air or water, while also monitoring contamination in real time via embedded electrical sensing (with potential ML-based pattern detection).
Gekko FS (Barcelona Super Computing): A high-performance, volatile distributed file system that lets devices and distributed computing infrastructures store and access huge amounts of data much faster during a run, then cleanly removes the files afterwards.
The projects presented included:
- Early-warning monitoring of traffic flows to prevent “ghost” traffic jams
- High-speed, high resolution storage framework for meteorological forecasting and communicating in known climate-vulnerable areas.
- Space-debris monitoring and simulation modelling for low-earth orbit
- Water micro-plastic pollution solution
- Agile systems’ management for improved patient treatment programming.
