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Sports & Landscape, Suiff, Poliwin & Smartfootball, winners of the VI Business and Sports Awards

INDESCAT awarded yesterday the Business and Sports Awards on its sixth edition, to Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Internationalization and Partnership, with the aim of recognizing the four most important sports projects in the world in these areas. The act, conducted by the extreme sportsman, communicator and youtuber Valentí Sanjuan, was held in ESADECREAPOLIS and was attended by nearly 200 people from the institutional, business and sports field.

The event was attended by the cluster's president, Anna Pruna; the counselor of the Presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Elsa Artadi; the mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès, Carmela Fortuny; the General Secretary of the Sport Department of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Gerard Figueras; the Managing Director of ACCIÓ, Joan Romero; the deputy delegate of Sports of the Diputació de Barcelona, Maite Fandos; the president of the UFEC, Gerard Esteva; and the president of the Fundació Catalana per a l'Esport, Pere Sust, among other authorities and representatives of the sports industry.

The Business and Sports Award for Innovation, which valued projects or products that stand out for the novelty they bring and the acceptance they are having in their market, was awarded to Sports & Landscape. It is a technology by the company that has the same name for the recycling and reuse of materials of artificial grass football fields. Ignasi Senabre, of the company based in Sant Cugat, was proud to receive a prize in the city and stated that "it is necessary to innovate, but taking into account waste management and that this also implies a concern for environment ".

Suiff received the Business and Sports Award for Entrepreneurship, which recognizes the start-up created from July 2015 on with the most potential during 2018. Suiff has created the first system to measure strength training, with dynamic and static exercises, it shows both the metrics of the activity carried out and tutored training plans adapted to the needs of each user.

For Montserrat Subirana, "we worked to create a system that could measure different parameters in the muscle area, as there were none." For Subirana, "the goal is to first reach personal trainers and sportsmen once the launch has been made - early in 2019 - to jump as quickly as possible to the international market.

The Business and Sports Awards for Partnership, which evaluates the best collaborative project that takes advantage of the knowledge of the members, was delivered to the Smartfootball project. It is a project by four companies for the promotion of Salou as a destination for sports tourism: Smartfootball; the Complex Esportiu Futbol Salou, that provides the facilities; Tecnifutbol, the sports academy and Mare Nostrum Cup, for the event organization. For the promoters of the project "we have contributed to changing the image of Salou so that it is a destination of sports tourism and we have done it by providing the best of each one of the collaborators."

Finally, the Business and Sports Award for Internationalization, which highlights the largest international projection, was this year to Poliwin, a company that offers a wide range of services, products and solutions for the management of the facilities.  It started its international expansion by 2015 in a trade mission to Mexico organized by INDESCAT, and now has activity in 8 countries. For Marta
Cabanas, "we must make efforts because now we are in different countries that require adjustments, from schedules to the characteristics of each one". "At present, we have a great deal of implementation in Mexico and other Latin American countries, and as we consolidate we will continue to expand."

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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.

Els fundadors som 3 germans molt implicats en el món esportiu. La nostra família venia del món tèxtil i vàrem pensar que seria una molt bona oportunitat poder seguir.

Oferim tot tipus de peça esportiva per clubs o col.lectius esportius, des d’una samarreta a un xandall esportiu o bé fins i tot merxandatge promocional. La nostra tècnica principal és la sublimació. també és molt important el temps de producció, i com a fabricants a dia d'avui tenim la capacitat de baixar els temps d'entrega de la competència.

Treballem amb teixits reciclats i orgànics des dels nostres inicis. La gran majoria de teixit que utilitzem és fabricat a Catalunya i totes les tintes que fem servir són amb base aigua.

utilitzem una tècnica nova actual anomenada DTF que ajuda a fer estampacions específiques en la personalització com noms, números, escuts...etc (substitueix el vinil i aconseguim un millor resultat i una gran durabilitat)

 a llarg termini volem aconseguir que la nostra marca agafi notorietat i que sigui reconeguda. Creiem que treballar amb algun club d'elit seria un gran pas que ens ajudaria situar la marca .

Esperem que (INDESCAT) ens porti a conèixer les tendències del sector de l'esport i estar al corrent de tot el que comporta el món de l'esport. (A INDESCAT) podem trobar oportunitats on a dia d'avui no en tenim i que en un futur ens podrien anar bé.


INDESCAT has started the ESMIS project (Enhance Sustainable Measures In Sports Facilities), promoted by Erasmus +, and has participated on 4 and 5 March in the Kick-off held in Eindhoven. The project aims to facilitate the exchange of good practices and innovative solutions to reduce the environmental footprint of sports facilities.

Abora SolarOrpheus and Zenit are the finalists for the EFISport 2024 Open Innovation Challenge! They will have the opportunity to present their proposal at the EFISport event on 13 March. The company that presents the winning solution of the challenge, which will be chosen by the public attending the event, will get a year's free membership to INDESCAT and the Barcelona Sports Hub.

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