BAIE, its members and the Catalan aerospace sector in general have frequent appearances in the Spanish, Catalan and International media. In the links below you can have access to the PDF files of the appearances month by month in the press (please take into account that most files are in Spanish or in Catalan).

This section complements the News section, where the main BAIE Highlights are posted.

2010

June

• FICOSA allies with the Japanese firm ICHIKOH and creates the leader in rearview mirrors
• A group of Catalan companies seeks support in China to launch its project of a lunar module
• COMSA EMTE enters into the USA and explores other markets
• A cable designed in Catalonia sets the world record in transmitted power (UAB)
• BAIE appears again in Mundo Empresarial Europeo
• VUELING increases its passenger traffic in more than 100%

May

• STARLAB appears in ESA's website (see also the BAIE Highlights section)
• The BAIE member RUCKER-LYPSA appears highlighted in AVUI
• The FREENOX engine developed by FIPSA is highlighted in La Vanguardia as "immune" to volcanic ashes
• INDRA will provide geospatial information to 38 European countries
• Cristòfol Jordà is interviewed by Global Talent
• Scientists prepare to explore the darkest universe (UB/ ICE)
• The consolidation of the commercial aviation sector leaves an imprint in the Airport of Barcelona
• The megacomputer of Barcelona will predict the Sahara dust storms (UPC/ BSC)
• The “Deu anys decisius” conference of the Mayor of Barcelona is now available on line
• IBERIA Mantenimiento will do the maintenance of the engines of British Airways’ aircrafts, after the merger
• The industry helps the Catalan economy leave the recession behind
• TELSTAR LIFE SCIENCES buys the French company Usifroid
• How science brings the universe closer to the brain (interview to STARLAB)
• The information and communication technology allowed Spanish companies to save 11,4% in costs in 2009 (ATOS ORIGIN)
• Applus+ gains strength in the United States
• The elections to the Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona leave out the entrepreneurs Enric Reyna and Joan Canals
• ABERTIS TELECOM enters the Executive Board of GALILEO Services
• "In times of crisis it’s important to have a Plan B" (Interview to Antoni Sanz of T-SYSTEMS)
• The new road to become an industrial engineer: 10 doubts and considerations
• "The UPC is in the midst of changes that will be transcendental" (Interview to Antoni Giró, Rector of the UPC)
• STARLAB, from space to the brain
• Space Engineering and Biomedicine (NTE-SENER)
• A system is found to calculate the age of stars (UPC)
• SMOS begins scientific operations
• The other renewable: ANORTEC builds a submarine that stores the energy of sea waves
• Eleven Spanish universities develop the future airport scanners (UPC)
• CIMNE opens a subsidiary in Singapore
• RYANAIR threatens to break prices in El Prat with their fares
• The President of ULTRAMÀGIC, Josep Mª Lladó, participates in "Els Matins de TV3"
• A new promotion of chartered engineers visits ARITEX

April

• The Chamber of Commerce of Barcelona, BCD and FAD sign an agreement to promote the protection of intellectual property
• Centenary of Aviation in Catalonia: Historical Aircraft Fleet from FPAC fly over Barcelona
• Catalonia in the air
• The Catalan Government allocates 5308 million euros to the R+D+i Plan
• Catalonia approves a Research Plan that stimulates innovation in companies
• Barcelona will have in 2013 the most powerful computer in Europe
• Antoni Giró reelected as UPC Rector
• SONY will launch in the fall a controller with movement sensors
• Is Catalonia an intelligent territory?
• The (Catalan) universities want to increase their ranking
• The MARES chair, developed by NTE-SENER, flies to the ISS

March

• The Aerospace Engineering School of UPC in Terrassa appears in Valor Afegit (TV3)
• The Generalitat de Catalunya creates TALÈNCIA, which merges IFCR, AGAUR and ICREA in a unique agency
• UPC is leading the European project TRAMS on advanced performance processors
• The demand of slots in El Prat Airport increases an 11%
• Investment of 11 million euros in the works to improve the cross runway in El Prat
• British Airways increases its flights from El Prat
• INDRA has net earnings of 196 million euros in 2009
• The Alba Syncrotron is inaugurated in Bellaterra
• “Implica’t” presents 10 candidates to the Board of la Cambra de Comerç
• "Credits and redits of the R+D+i" (by Eugenio Oñate)
• Sony will receive an injection of 15 million euros
• Applus+ buys two American companies
• Barcelona wants to gain momentum in the Shanghai Expo
• UPC students design a robot to send it to the moon
• FP gains strength among the youth
• Excessive offer of technological parks (in Catalonia)

February

• Press conference of Minister José Blanco on the new model for the Barcelona–El Prat Airport
• Miquel Valls presents himself as candidate to the Presidency of Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona
• Avançsa injects 1 million euros in Mapro and takes control of 25% of the company
• Avançsa and Applus+ become part of the Administration Board of Ficosa
• Two candidates for the UPC Rectorate elections
• Last news on the Lleida-Alguaire Airport
• Generalitat de Catalunya to support Vueling and Spanair in El Prat
• El Prat will have its big (maintenance) hangar in November
• The Barcelona City Hall is looking for its engine
• ACC1Ó is considering establishing a Catalan technological pole in India
• Interview to Carles Martí: “AENA must reinvent itself if it wants to survive”
• “On top of bright blue”
• BAIE appears in the Aeronauticos magazine (Issue 220, February 2010)

January

• Inauguration of the new Lleida-Alguaire Airport
• “Double concession”, article by Joaquim Coello on the management of the Barcelona-El Prat Airport
• GTD celebrates a Workshop in Barcelona on the VBR 8x8
• Invited by UPC, Michael Griffin, former NASA Administrator, was in Barcelona in mid-December
• Article by the former UAB Rector on Excelent Universities
• The Rector of UB names two new vicerectors and considers the crisis in the institution ended
• UPC and ESADE participate in the biggest network of innovation in sustainable energy, a European project valued at 450 M€
• The weight of the investment in R&D increases an 8,8% in Catalonia, even with the economic crisis
• The Catalan Autonomous Government rearranges the innovation map in Catalonia
• “Second inauguration” of the new Lleida-Alguaire Airport on the 31st of January
• The Barcelona-El Prat Airport prepares reforms in T2
• The Mayor of Barcelona talks about the city, its challenges and the 2022 Winter Olymplic Games
• The Barcelona Chamber of Commerce presents its International Action Plan for 2010
• The BAIE member Telstar and Avançsa participate in Hexascreen
• A UPC researcher creates a new material from paper residues
• A Catalan firm creates electronic boards to manage high performance devices