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Face up to situations of crisis and of emergencies from the forecast to the restoration of the services.

El Colegio de Ingenieros Industriales de Cataluña y el Institut Cerdà han organizado, la jornada 'La resiliencia de las infraestructuras. Hacer frente a situaciones de crisis y emergencias desde la previsión a la restauración de los servicios'. La jornada tuvo lugar en la sede de los Ingenieros Industriales de Cataluña, se expuso y se debatio sobre cómo gestionar una crisis en las infraestructuras energéticas y de las TIC para reforzar la resiliencia y la capacidad de recuperación de estos sectores.

Cataluña es un país altamente urbanizado con una elevada densidad de población e infraestructuras que se enfrenta, como el resto de países desarrollados, a amenazas y riesgos que pueden ser producidos por fenómenos naturales, desastres causados en las infraestructuras y conflictos sociales que pueden desencadenar una huelga general, sabotajes o el terrorismo internacional.

Esta jornada responde al objetivo de dar a conocer cómo trabajan las empresas y las administraciones para conseguir reducir la vulnerabilidad y aumentar la resiliencia de nuestro país en ámbitos de notable trascendencia como la energía y las telecomunicaciones. El conocimiento y la experiencia de los ponentes contribuyó a una mejor comprensión de la capacidad de respuesta y de actuación ante estos riesgos o amenazas episódicas.

La Caixa Social has published the work done by the Institut Cerdà.

"...With this report, Obra Social "la Caixa" pretendecontribuir with objective data to the debate on the future presentey of Metropolitan environments. "From the strategic analysis of their sustainability, the study, will be possible to assess the planification with greater rigour needs social anfd environmental policies."

Jaime Lanaspa Gatnau
Director Executive of the Obra Social "la Caixa"
Director General of the Caixa Foundation

Barcelona may 2012

You can download the document in the section on environment of the web page of the Obra Socia La Caixa.

Lluís Inglada has spoken of the arrival of the AVE to Girona and Figueres, of the impact on the territory and of the profits and risks of this new infrastructure.

http://www.tv3.cat/3alacarta/#/videos/4409134

From the Service of Support to the Management of crisis is working in the organisation of days in different professional schools and in the participation of courses of training that give in different educational centres.

During the month of February we have participated in the Master of Management of Risks and Emergency that organises the School of Industrial Technical Engineers and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The session treated the basic introduction to the civil protection, and the basic guidelines for the preparation of PAU (Plan of Autoprotection).

Fruit of the international collaboration that the IC has with the SEBRAE (Brazilian Service of support to the company), the Institut has organised a course of training in tourism MICE (Meetings & Incentive)
to visit diverse institutions of Barcelona specialised in tourism MICE.
The Institut Cerdà has organised a course of training for directors and technicians of Tourism of the SEBRAE and of diverse cities of the State of Parana. Between the activities of the course there is the visit to diverse Catalan institutions, like the Big Teatre of the Liceu, the Futbol Club Barcelona, Active Barcelona, the Agència Catalan of Turisme i the Fira of Barcelona.

In the Palau Firal i de Congressos de Tarragona has held the I Congress Mediterranean's energy efficiency and Smart Green Cities, a platform for information, debate and business opportunities of business, professional sector and administrations with the aim of achieving both the Spanish State, and the Mediterranean basin.

http://openenergyinstitute.com/es/

• 'Smart Urbs 21' is born of the initiative of the Institut Cerdà and Barcelona Digital and has the participation of the city councils of Barcelona, Sant Cugat, and the companies Natural Gas Fenosa, Cespa-Ferrovial, Sap, BBVA, Districenter, and Moventia.

• The document analyses, the international level, more than 370 initiatives of 64 cities and poses the best intelligent opportunities focused to improve the public management and the technological application to the services directed to the citizen.

• The study aims that the technology is not the main barrier for the deployment of a solution smart and that the main challenges are cultural and of model of exploitation. Likewise, it puts of relief that the citizen earns an indisputable leadership in the intelligent city.

The study 'Smart Urbe 21' collects the international analysis of more than 370 initiatives of 64 cities, to find the best opportunities smart headed to the services for the citizen.

The study has realised an analysis of solutions and experiences in intelligent cities to international level, identifying the diverse available solutions in the actuality, his deployment (pilot, neighbourhood, city or metropolitan zone) in the cities analysed and the level of implantation by means of the analysis of the international experiences and the information obtained of the main actors of the sector.

Of all the fields smart, the study centres especially in Smart Environment (services of collected of waste, road cleaning, parks and gardens and environment), Smart Energy (services of smart grid, intelligent buildings and illumination of public spaces) and Smart Transportation&Mobility (services of management of the traffic, distribution of commodities, parkings, mobility no motorised and public transport).

Also they have detected 15 new solutions and opportunities smart cities: 60% oriented to the citizen, 25% orientes to the private and public alliance participation, 30% optimises the provision of urban services and 25% creates new opportunities of business.

Other significant conclusions of the study have been that the technology is not the main barrier for the deployment of a solution smart and that the main challenges are cultural and of model of exploitation. Likewise, it puts of relief that the citizen earns an indisputable leadership in the intelligent city and supposes a new sensor of the city that thinks, shares and interactúa with the same.

Of the 370 experiences and projects smart city analysed, only 7% has a transversal approach and takes advantage of the opportunities that offers the crossing of data between different sectors. Regarding the fields of performance, has found that 73% of the municipalities studied have implemented an intelligent solution of collected of waste and that the experiences of Transport and Mobility are those that better take advantage of the different sources of data that offers the city (citizen, traffic, sensors, public transport, etc.).

In the last meeting of the patronato has decided incorporate to Núria Marín, mayor of L'Hospitalet, to the patronato of the IC.

L'Hospitalet, 1963. With equivalent studies to the diplomatura in business sciences, from the 2008 she is mayor of L'Hospitalet. In the year 1985 she has work like civil servant and of the 1995 to the 1999 she did charge of the area of Inland revenue and of the Concejalía of Collblanc-The Torrassa. In the 1999 she was appointed first deputy mayor and she assumed the responsibility of the area of Economy and Inland revenue, in 2007, she has the first tinenta of mayor and manager of the area of Planning, Coordination and Economy.
She is deputy of the province to the Diputacion of Barcelona and vice-president of the Metropolitan area of Barcelona. She represents to the City council of l´Hospitalet in the Commission of New Technologies and Information Society of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) and she occupies a vicepresidencia of the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia (FMC). She is member of the Council Rector of the Integral Sanitary Consortium. From January of 2011 she is chairs of the Spanish Forum for the Prevention and the Security. Also she is member title of the Committee of the Regions, of the European Union. She is married.

The Mayor of L'Hospitalet, Nuria Marín, and the director of Area of land, infrastructure and transport of the Institut Cerdà, Juan Ortiz, have presented the study "The investment in the network of rail for the development of the metropolitan region of Barcelona." "Socio-economic impacts of the construction of a new rail tunnel in L'Hospitalet'.

The study has been prepared by the Institut Cerdà commissioned by the City Council of L'Hospitalet.

It is the title of the publication for the 2011 Workshop organized by Círculo de Infraestructuras with the collaboration of Abertis and the technical coordination of the Institut Cerdà.

The circle of infrastructure has published the summary of the day held the year 2011 at the castle of Castellet de Foix. Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero, Secretaria General de infraestructuras of the Ministerio de Fomento, Jordi Follia, Director General de Carreteras of the Generalitat of Cataluña, and Salvador Alemany, President of Abertis, with seam message: the need to assess economic and social profitability of the projects with more accuracy.

Institut Cerdà is the author of this work published by COTEC, analyses how innovation can improve the process of development planning and the results of his ordination. The work examines conceptual aspects of planning and innovation, showing possible procedures and good practices that can lead the way towards an innovative public planning.

The President of the Genralitat, Artur Mas, has received the members of the Board of the Institut Cerdà in the Palau de la Generalitat.

In the course of the meeting were presented the current lines of work and recent projects that works the IC, bearing in mind that the guidelines are the implementation in common of the private, public and the economic environment, social and territorial. Also featured a brief trajectory of the IC in his more than 25 years developing projects pioneering and unique.

In ESADE Creàpolis has been the meeting of the project.
The meeting was attended by the Mayor of Sant Cugat, Mercè Conesa, together with representatives of the City Council of Barcelona, CESPA, Districenter, Gas Natural Fenosa, Moventia, SABA and Barcelona Digital. Project Smart Urbs 21, works on smart opportunities to be included in the services, making an analysis of more than 370 64 cities initiatives. We also analyse whether the initiatives that are being implemented contributes to the improvement of benefits and delves into the possibilities of recruitment.

From the Observatory of logistics (driven by the Department of territory and sustainability of the Generalitat of Catalonia and Cimalsa, and carried out by the Institut Cerdà), is held annually the document of the competitiveness indicators of the Catalan logistics system, which this year reaches its seventh edition. The main objective of competitiveness indicators is to monitor its evolution the most relevant data of the logistics system, and analitzar. The preparation of the document looks, on the basis of statistical data from the main sources of reference for the sector, give a practical and real vision of which are read main trends of the market of logistics and transport in Catalunya. The actual edition makes a special emphasis on the introduction of new indicators that bring in more measured document to the demand.

IVEA to promote the viability and business opportunity of electric and hybrid vehicles.

The project was attended by the Catalan Institute of Energy of the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Barcelona Metropolitan Area, the City of Barcelona, ​​Barcelona Provincial Council, the Community of Madrid, the Energy Efficiency Cluster in Catalonia The Foundation Francisco Corell and Gas Natural.

Barcelona, June 2012, at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees on June 5 have been appointed members of the Board of Trustees to Mercè Conesa and Jordi Miarnau.

Mercè Conesa Pagès1968.

Graduate in law (UAB) and master's degree in law and public management (UPF) and in leadership and innovation in public policy (ESADE). He is Mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès and Vice-President of the Diputació de Barcelona. Between 1994 and 1999 he served as Professor of administrative law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and, between 1994 and 1996, he was responsible for the legal service of the Catalan Association of municipalities. Year 1996 - and until 1999 was responsible for coordination of the Directorate General of Local administration of the Generalitat of Catalonia. He was Deputy Mayor of equality and social policies of the Ayunamiento de Sant Cugat between 1999 and 2003 and, subsequently, has been Deputy Mayor of territory (2003-2010).


Jordi Miarnau Montserrat

Barcelona 1961. Engineer of roads, canals and ports; Schedule of Directorate General (PDG) of IESE. Master in management of construction companies by the Augustine Foundation of Betancourt (Madrid). Until 2004, took charge of the GRUPO COMSA international rail business, leading a process of internationalization to place the company among the first railway builders groups in the world. In 2003, he assumed the presidence of GRUPO COMSA, and after the integration, in 2009, of GRUPO COMSA EMTE, became President of COMSA EMTE. He is President honorary of the European Federation of Railway Trackworks Contractors (EFRTC); Counsellor of the Asepeyo mutual; Patron of the Foundation Prince of Girona and the Foundation for Science, Health and Education (SHE); and member of the Board of the circle of entrepreneurs of Madrid, among others.

The Institut Cerdà has participated and joined the Repsol Foundation throughout the process of this first call and would like to congratulate 7 candidatures that have been selected for their projects.The areas of action of the winning candidates ranging from power generation to distribution and end use of yhe energy. Each project will receive technological, business and legal advice and financial support between 6,000 and 12,000 € per month.

The Institut Cerdà has developed, by the City Council of the Ametlla de Mar, an analysis of the socio-economic impacts of the project ZEFIR Test Station, driven by the Research Institute on energy of Catalonia (IREC). The ZEPHYR project is the creation of a plant of international research for marine wind turbines in deep water testing which will be located off the coast. The objective of the project is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge of wind energy to progressively reduce the costs of construction and development of marine wind farms. The project aims to create new business opportunities for companies in the sectors of energy and implement a center of international reference with ability to attract new investments in the industrial sector.

The scientific and technological park of the UdG celebrates the III Jornadas I+D+I in ICT and health and the Institut Cerdà has been participated by presenting the IC AGE Lab. It is a meeting for some research groups, companies and technology centres beetwin France amd Cataluña, an initiative and organized by the Science Park and technology of the University of Girona and the TicSalut Foundation, with the collaboration of UBIFrance and the camera of French trade in Barcelona. The Institut Cerdà has submitted the IC AGE Lab, it is an initiative to promote the factor people Mayor as vector of innovation of economic sectors and of public policies.

Under the title "Ports, key element in the development of the interior territories" is celebbró a day in which participated the Institut Cerdà. Enric Ticó, President of railways of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Lluís Inglada, Director of the area of consultancy Institut Cerdà, and García Santiago Milà, Assistant Director-General, strategy and commercial of the port of Barcelona participated in the day.

The President of l'IC Gabriel Ferraté, present the IC to the President of the Catalan CECOT patron of Terrassa, Antoni Abad, one gathered that held tenir will la seu of Terrassa. During the meeting were presented the current lines of work of the Institute in the field of infrastructure, territory, crisis, energy, and commerce, and innovation management.

In the framework of the activities of the Crisis management supporting service has coordinated and promoted the signing of the Convention of colavoración between the RESCAT Res Genralidad of Catalonia, and companies Endesa and Gas Natural.

Isidre Gavin, general director of CIMALSA, Damià Calvet, Secretary of territory and mobility of the Department of territory and sustainability of the Generalitat, and Lluís Inglada director of land, infrastructure and mobility of the Institut Cerdà, presented the report.
The Observatory of logistics is an evaluation tool continuously of the needs of the economic sectors in relation to logistics system, being a meeting point between companies and actors policy-makers to integrate the needs of the business planning and management of infrastructure and services.The logistics Observatory aims to define the logistics needs of businesses and providing information key on these needs, planning and management of logistics system and be able to the economic and business sector.

You can consult the results of the reports on the website of CIMALSA.

http://www.cimalsa.cat/observatori/observatori.htm

The Institut Cerdà and the ICIL (Catalan Institute for logistics research) have signed a collaboration agreement to develop its activities in training, studies and promotion of logistics.

Gabriel Ferraté, President, Carlos Cabrera, general director, and Elisabet Viladomiu, Director of support to crisis management service, filed with Núria Gispert, President of the Parliament of Catalonia, the studies and activities that are being developed from the Institut Cerdà.

Representatives of the Institut Cerdà presented the Crisis management supporting service to the Executive Chairman of ENAGÁS.

Current has finished the period for submission of projects and the assessment phase has been initiated. More than 400 nominations.

Its aim is to bring out the talent and support entrepreneurs to develop business projects in the field of energy efficiency.

• President of Fundación Repsol, Antonio Brufau, said "this is the first private equity fund aimed at facilitating the promotion of entrepreneurial initiatives in savings and responsible use of energy and its transformation in business projects that generate economic activity."

• Fundación Repsol go Entrepreneurs Fund represent 1.5 million per year.

Silvio Barros, Maringà Mayor, city of the State of Paranà in Brazil has visited the Institut Cerdà.
This visit is the result of the relationship between the Institut Cerdà and SEBRAE (Brazilian service of support for micro and small enterprises) in February signed an agreement of collaboration between the two entities.

The presentation was attended by the Conseller Mr. Felip Puig and other representatives of the Department of the Interior affairs, Abertis, Endesa, Gas NaturalFenosa, Mercadona, the FGC and the Metropolitan Tram. The support service crisis management was born a year and aims to promote continuous improvement in relations, processes and actions of the companies with the set of agents and society in crisis , aix'i how to acquire knowledge and best practices in periods between crises.

Gabriel Ferraté, Carlos Cabrera and Josep Mª Oliveras meet with the Mayor of Barcelona to present the latest projects of the IC.

A team of Institut Cerdà has traveled to Brazil, invited by SEBRAE, the Brazilian service of support for micro and small enterprises.

The Institut Cerdà participates in the plenary meeting of the "Conselho deliberative do SEBRAE Paraná". The meeting was held in Curitiba, capital of Paranà. In the course of the meeting, Josep Mª Oliveras, director of institutional relations presented the Institut Cerdà.

In the course of the trip was also signed a technical cooperation agreement between the city of Curitiba-PR-Brazil, Sebrae, Fecomércio and Institut Cerdà. The IC will provide technical support, with all his experience in urban solutions.

Conference organized by the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos de Catalunya.

The main reason for visit was the presentation of lines of work and recent projects, and to continue the collaboration between both entities.

At the Institut Cerdà met S.E.M. Gaousou, Ambassador of Mali to Cissé Sékou said Spain, Mª José Crespo Consul Mali to Barcelona, Joaquim Llimona, director of international relations and cooperation of the Ajuntament de Barcelona, with Gabriel Ferraté, Carlos Cabrera, Luis, Juan Ortiz, Inglada and Josep Mª Oliveras. The meeting had aimed to present the Institut Cerdà to the Ambassador and to establish possible partnerships, in the areas of work of the Institute with the country of Mali.

The IC advisory council met in the headquarters of Agbar Group.

The meeting was aimed at follow the study, being conducted by the Institut Cerdà, the need for Barcelona and Catalonia on strategic infrastructure and services beyond 2030.

Conference in the Barcelona Meeting Point

The conference analyzed the situation and the prospects and the future of the housing sector as a tool utilitzando the results of the Barometer of confidence in the housing sector, with the participation of key players in the sector. Aimed at: Staff of the local, regional and state real estate professionals, architects and technical architects, and developers.

Anton Costas (Vigo, 1972). Industrial Engineer and Ph.D. in Economics. He is Professor of Economic Policy and Director of the UB Master in Economics and Public Services Regulation Economic. His academic interest and publications focus on studying the role played by ideas, interests and institutions in public policy. In particular the processes of economic reforms, liberalization and regulation of private-public services. He has published a books and numerous articles and essays. He has chaired and been part of numerous committees of experts to advise governments and corporations on economic and public policy. He is Chairman of ENDESA in Catalonia and vice president of the Economic Circle.

Pere Macias (Olot, 1956). Civil Engineer's. He is member of Spanish parliament and president of the Foundation Circle of Infrastructure since September 2006. He has been professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Professor of Law at the School of Civil Engineers. He has worked in the Direction General of Urbanism of the Generalitat of Catalonia. Furthermore has also been mayor of Olot, president of the Diputación de Girona, president of the Catalan Association of Municipalities and County Councils, Member of the Catalan Parliament, Minister for the Environment and Director of Policy Planning and Public Works of the Generalitat of Catalonia.

Meeting with Minister of Planning and Sustainability, Luis Recoder and CEO of Mobility, Richard Fountain, to present the study.

The study was conducted by the Institut Cerdà and coordinated by the University of Vic, highlights the socio-economic arguments that explain the interest of promoting the rail-Vic Barcelona-Toulouse Puigcerdà.
The meeting was attended by the mayors of the municipalities that have participated in the study: Puigcerdà, Alp, Coughs, Fontanals of Cerdanya, Planoles, Ribes, Campdevànol, Ripoll, Sant Quirze Besora, Sant Vicenç de Torello, Torello, Manlleu and Vic, and the Presidents of the Consells Comarcals of Cerdanya, and Osona Ripollès.

The Junta de Andalucía and Gas Natural organize on March 23rd in Malaga a seminar that will present the results of the study "Redes energéticas y ordenación del territorio" carried out by the Institut Cerdà.

The Institut Cerdà has carried out the study “Redes energéticas y ordenación del territorio”, ordered by the Fundació Gas Natural, which shows the European and spanish experience about energy networks and territorial planning. Now the Fundació Gas Natural organizes this seminar with the collaboration of the Consejerías de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa and the Consejería de Vivienda y Ordenación del Territorio of Junta de Andalucía.

In the seminar the author will present the study.

The Director General of ESADE visit the IC, and she meets with President Gabriel Ferraté, Director General, Carles Cabrera and with Josep Mª Oliveras, Director of Institutional Relations and Communication.

Carlos Cabrera Managing Director, presented the IC to the students of CFIS (Interdisciplinary Centre for Higher Education UPC).
Presentation took place under the 2011 Spring FORUM organized by the CFIS.

The Interdiscilinariy Center for Higher Education (CFIS) is a center of excellence for the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) created to select and tutoring students with sufficient ability and motivation to pursue interdisciplinary studies in a range of innovative training that includes one or more graduate courses that make up the offer of the UPC.

Study Ramon Folch and Institut Cerdà in their willingness to address one of the main challenges that companies have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly develop projects in the field of climate change.
The purpose of signing the agreement is the formalization of professional collaboration to expand common views with the aim of providing consultancy in the field of climate change. In fact, the culmination of previous collaborations and wants to strengthen the complementary capabilities of both entities, in a stable, and convinced that this cooperation will benefit the quality of projects and studies always oriented decision-making companies.

As part of this agreement will develop joint studies and projects as:
• Action Plans
• analysis of impacts and vulnerability of natural resources and socio-economic sectors
• adaptation strategies
• calculation of inventories and carbon footprints.

Kermes noted that both FRA and IC have long experience working for public and private sectors in areas related to sustainability, climate change, sustainable building, planning and land management, biodiversity, environment , energy, etc.

The signing of the agreement between Mr. Ramon Folch FRA Director General and Director General Mr. Carlos Cabrera IC, was attended by Dr. Gabriel Ferraté, President of the Institut Cerdà.

A took place at IESE a workshop on Industrial Competitiveness in Catalonia, presented and moderated by Professor Frederic Sabrià of CELSA Chair - IESE
and Carlos Cabrera, Director General of the Institut Cerdà.

A working session attended, Pere CELSA Otero, Julian Imaz of CONDIPUNT, Juan Manuel Lecue Soler i Palau, Joan Molins de Ciments Molins, Juan Ramón Rodriguex SEAT Fradera Carles de La Caixa, Jordi Miquel y Costas Merchant Xavier Auguets of Caixa Catalunya, Joan Esteve Laboratoris Naval and Adriana Casademont of Casademont.

The session had as objective to discuss the best internal practices to industry organizations to improve their competitiveness.

The partnership is part of showing the interest of both institutions to disclose those projects, studies or activities that are of interest to society.

This framework agreement is intended to lay the groundwork for cooperation between the two entities in those projects deemed of mutual interest and in fulfilling their respective goals. The agreement provides that the IC and the Circle of Infrastructure jointly organize meetings, discussions, and publications, as well as to participants: the dissemination of those projects and studies that are considered appropriate.

Under this heading the president of the IC, Gabriel Ferraté gave a lecture at the University of Barcelona.

El Periodico de Catalunya, which publishes Ecopolis, special series on EcoUrbanism organized a round table on quality of life in large cities, attended by Frederic Ximeno, general director for Environmental Policy and Sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunña, Pep Tarifa technical director of the Environmental Forum Foundation, Agustí Filomeno, market research director of the Institut Cerdà and Rosa Solà, Barcelona president of Slow Food.

Roundtable for the monograph on the quality of life in big cities organizes the Perriódico de Catalunya, which was held at the headquarters of the IC.

Ecopolis The Journal publishes a periodical series of special pages that rpetende EcoUrbanism think about the new world reality characterized by the existence of scenarios of high population density and make debate strategies generated in the sustainability of cities and replant existing patterns of living, consumption and use of resources. The monograph is a document of release to public service that aims to be a showcase of indicators, trends and good practice as well as a useful communication platform for institutions and professionals of social and environmental serctor.

As part of Barcelona Meeting Point presented the results in the presence of Minister of Environment and Housing of the Generalitat, Francesc Baltasar. Among the results is that the barometer of confidence in the housing sector sketches for the first time, the market recovery.

A general level, confidence in the sector growth increases and most of the agents observed a recovery. For the first time, boxes and banks improve the perception of clients' financial capacity.

Xavier Corominas, general manager of ECA Bureau Veritas Foundation, and Carlos Cabrera, director general of the Institut Cerdà have signed a collaboration agreement, in which both entities commit to buy services and support offered to develop their respective projects.

At the meeting of the board, on June 15 2010, was appointed Antonio Brufau Niubó member of the Board.

The partnership is aimed at realitzación a report on the sustainability of their metropolitan areas of Spain.
The two parties want to collaborate in conducting and publishing a report on the sustainability of the metropolitan areas of Spain, to produce original and give special emphasis on those aspects of sustainability least exploited, so that your inquiry is useful in policy stance publicly and privately.

The study will examine the status and progress of the various factors and delivery of sustainability in aggregate for all metropolitan areas, depending on their location, urban type, its social characteristics, and level of economic development among others.

The Conseller of Environment and Housing of the Catalan Government, Francesc Baltasar, with the General Secretary of the Environment and Housing Department, Eduard Pallejà; the Secretary for Housing, Carme Trilla; and the General Director of Environmental and Sustainability Policies of the department, Frederic Ximeno; had an extraordinary meeting in the IC.

The objective of the meeting is to share the projects carried out together and present the new collaboration proposals.

With the presence of the Mayor Iolanda Pineda, Gabriel Ferraté president Estanis l'IC and Puig Mayor de l'Escala.
Were presented at a press conference the main results of the E3 Project.

The study was prepared by the Institut Cerdà by the Forum Interalimentario. The study was presented by Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Action, Joaquim Llena in a ceremony held at the Palau Robert in Barcelona and attended by the president of the Forum Interalimentario, Ramon Calbet, José Ignacio Arranz, CEO and Agustí Filomeno, market research director of the Institut Cerdà.

In the coming days the Institut Cerdà Project present the results of E3 (valuing the potential of older people as a social resource in municipal life). The presentations will be the 27th of April in Reus, the 28th in Sitges and on 3 May in Gerona.

The Institut Cerdà, along with the British Embassy, ​​organized a breakfast discussion this title.

The event was presented by Ms. Stephanie Pfeifer, Executive Director of Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change.

Have assisted, Andrew Gwatkin, Consul General in Barcelona and representatives of financial institutions, the Government and major private sector companies

To mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the IC, Montilla President met with members of the board of the Institut Cerdà. The Chairman thanked IC revitalizing its work status in society.