BarcelonaTech will select technological companies for the Barcelona Smart City Campus in Hong Kong

From http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/la-upc-escollira-les-start-ups-catalanes-del-barcelona-smart-city-campus-a-hong-kong (in Catalan)

As a result of the summer 2012 business mission to China and Hong Kong by Barcelona‘s Mayor, Xavier Trias, the Barcelona City Council and the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Parks Corporation (香 港 科 技 園) have created the Barcelona Smart City Campus to promote the landing of the most innovative Catalan companies in the Chinese market.

The signature of the agreement for the creation of the Barcelona Smart City Campus by the Third Deputy Mayor of the Barcelona City Council, Antoni Vives, and the President of the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Parks Corporation, Nicholas Brooke, took place in the Barcelona City Hall on March 8th, 2013, in the presence of the Vice-Rector for International Policy of the Catalonia Politechnical University (UPC), Prof. Pedro Díez.

The Barcelona City Council and the Catalonia Politechnical University will elaborate a business development program to attract the most innovative Catalan proposals to the Barcelona Smart City Campus, located in Hong Kong. The task of the Catalonia Politechnical University, through its Innovation and Research Park, will consist in selecting the Catalan start-up companies created less than two years ago that will be allowed to establish themselves in the Hong Kong Scientific and Technological Park, where they will take part in the business incubation programs Incu-Tech, Incu-Bio and Incu-Apps.

Apart from the creation of this program, the agreement is also aimed at creating new business opportunities in both regions, at stimulating the exchange of innovative business initiatives and at promoting entrepreneurship, knowledge transfer and economic growth.

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420"] Signature of the Barcelona Smart City Campus (from the UPC website)[/caption]

Sinalunya mentioned in Catalan weekly magazine Presència

On Sunday, March 17th 2011, our blog was highlighted for the second time on the internet pages of the Catalan weekly magazine Presència, thanks to the recent interview by the Catalan News Agency. We would like to thank them for including Sinalunya again in their section.

[caption id="attachment_2055" align="alignleft" width="174"] Cover of Presència 17 March 2013[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2054" align="alignleft" width="174"] Sinalunya - Presència 17 March 2013[/caption]

[caption id="attachment_2056" align="alignleft" width="300"] Detail of the Sinalunya piece - Presència 17 March 2013[/caption]

 

Spanish translation of "Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China" presented in Barcelona

From http://www.casaasia.eu/actividad/detalle?id=210011 (in English)

Casa Àsia in Barcelona will be presenting the Spanish translation of the 1989 book by Angus Charles Graham entitled "Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China". Awarded with a Ruy de Clavijo Scholarship by Casa Àsia, the translation into Spanish has been carried out by Daniel Stern under the title "El Dao en disputa: la argumentación filosófica en la China antigua". The event will be presented by Rafael Bueno, Director of Politics and Society of Casa Àsia and the lecture will be delivered by Albert Galvany, teacher and Marie Curie resesarcher in the Department of Humanities of the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, and Daniel Stern, as translator of the book. The presentation will be carried out on March 19th, 2013, at 7 pm at the Casa Àsia headquarters, Diagonal Avenue 373, Barcelona.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="560"] Cover of "El Dao en disputa" from Casa Àsia website[/caption]

Sinalunya featured in some Catalan media

Links:

• http://www.acn.cat/acn/704605/Noticia/text/Noticia.html


• http://www.vilaweb.cat/noticia/4090748/20130303/sinalunya-projecte-multidisciplinari-potenciar-relacions-xina-taiwan-singapur-catalunya.html


• http://www.lavanguardia.com/encatala/20130303/54367958384/sinalunya-un-projecte-multidisciplinari-per-potenciar-les-relacions-entre-xina-taiwan-singapur-i.html

Recently our project has been featured in some Catalan media, thanks to the journalist of the Catalan News Agency, Nerea Guisasola, who interviewed us a couple of weeks ago. The news has written text and a picture, but also a piece of audio was featured on the radio. We would like to thank her for helping us to spread the word of what we would like to do and also for writing about our project in such an enthusiastic way.

[caption id="attachment_2034" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Sinalunya team: Chia-Chi Liao and Lluís Sala[/caption]

 

First Chinese Friendly Cities World Conference organized in Sevilla

From http://www.chinesefriendlycities.com/en (in English, also available in Spanish and Chinese)

The city of Seville, located in the South West of Spain, is organizing a unique conference: the first meeting of the Chinese Friendly Cities (友好中国城市). This initiative aims at increasing the number of Chinese tourists visiting Spain, a potential market of 100 million people. The event will take place on March 14 and 15th, 2013, and the program includes renowned speakers such as Kurt Grötsch, CEO of Chinese Friendly International and Dean of Cátedra China; Professor Frank M. Go, Professor of Tourism Marketing, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; Esther Wu, Expert of Chinese Outbound Tourism, Beijing; and Antonio Liu Yang, CEO of Mediterrasian Consulting (地中亚咨询公司), among others. For further information, please contact cities@chinesefriendly.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NXDe_GXB1I

Girona Chamber of Commerce organizes workshop on how to sell food products in China

 

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240"] Girona Chamber of Commerce[/caption]

Girona Chamber of Commerce is organizing a workshop addressed to inform local companies on how to sell food products in China. The meeting will take place on March 13, 2013 at their headquarters on 46, Avenue Jaume I, in Girona. It will start at 9 am and is planned to last until lunch time, after a networking session among attendants. The speakers will be Mr. Jordi Baqué, Director of the Internationalization Area of the Girona Chamber of Commerce, a representative of the EU SME Centre in Beijing, and Ms. Maria Trias, Export Manager of Trias Galetes-Biscuits, S.A.

The goals of this workshop are: a) to explain the opportunities offered by the Chinese market to the companies from the food sector and the trends in the the distribution and consumption; b) to explain the regulations for importing food in China; and c) to inform of the support tools that the companies can use in their exporting activities to China.

Program
08.55 Reception and delivery of information by the EU SME Centre in Beijing
09.00 Presentation and welcome address by Mr. Joaquim M. Caula, vicepresident of the Girona Chamber of Commerce
09.05 Agrofood China Meeting Point: a project from the Girona Chamber of Commerce to provide support tools for the local companies willing to export to China
09.20 The Chinese food market: Trends. Steps for exporting food products.
10.40 Experience of an exporting SME
11.00 Open discussion
11.30 Coffee break and networking
12.00 Possibility of individual interviews with the expert from the EU SME Centre in Beijing (reserved for the International Club Chamber members -CIC-).

For further information, please contact by email at comercexterior@cambragirona.org

 

 

Catalan meat processing industry Càrniques Juià aims at Chinese market

From http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/4-economia/18-economia/619600-carniques-juia-construeix-un-nou-magatzem-frigorific.html (in Catalan)

Càrniques Juià is a 27-year old company processing pork meat based in the town of Juià (Girona province), located some 50km from the French border and some 100km from important maritime shipping docks. Their total sales reached 500 million € in 2012 and they export 80% of the 11,000 pigs they annually process. Despite already selling their meat products to Eastern Asian markets such as Southern Korea and Japan, Càrniques Juià has invested 16.5 million € to enlarge their facilities and increase their exports to China, Australia and New Zealand.