The system consists of an innovative new wheelchair created by the Centro de Investigaciones Mecánicas (CIM, the Mechanical Research Centre) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), with the support of abertis, and which was launched this morning in Barcelona. This new prototype is the result of three years of research by the CIM and its innovation consists in the incorporation of a mechanical gear change system which can be used without affecting required user safety levels...

Joan Clos, Chairman of the Forum 2004 and Mayor of Barcelona, and abertis Chairman Isidre Fainé, together with Forum 2004 Director-General Jordi Oliveras and abertis Managing Director Salvador Alemany, this morning signed the sponsorship agreement making abertis, one of Europe’s leading infrastructure operators, a sponsor of the Universal Forum of the Cultures Barcelona 2004...

How can the exodus of young inhabitants from mountain areas be stopped? Can local development be compatible with a local economic framework? What is the best formula for balancing the environmental impact of the large-scale building of second homes? These are the questions which this research project sets out to answer. Entitled El Món Rural del Segle XXI (the Rural World in the 21st Century), its goal is to provide new arguments for sustainable development in the Pyrenean region...

Today saw the signing of a sponsorship agreement between acesa and abertis and Teià Municipal Council to a value of €45,000 for the first stages of the archaeological work on the remains at Vallmora (Teià), which consist in the re-excavation and delimitation of structures (readied) the provisional enclosure of the site (under way) and the covering of the remains (awaiting execution). This financial contribution, made effective today, will allow for the definitive covering of the ancient wine estate’s remains, compatible with the partial architectural restoration of the 1st-century AD pressing rooms....

Midday today saw the inauguration of the new Montserrat Choir School stairway-museum, which has been subsidised by the infrastructure corporation abertis. The event was attended by the Abbot of Montserrat, Josep M. Soler, who was accompanied by the abertis Managing Director Salvador Alemany, the corporation’s Company Secretary Joan Artur Margenat, the Director of Institutional Relations and Quality Ricard Maxenchs and the Manager of the Fundació Castellet del Foix, Sagrario Huelin, in addition to Josep Sinca, the Director-General of the Fundació Abadia de Montserrat 2025, the Foundation which traditionally receives the subsidies from the corporation. ...

Abertis Infraestructuras, the infrastructures management corporation resulting from the merger of Acesa and Aurea, will be included for the first time in the selective Dow Jones Stoxx Sustainability index, made up of 178 companies from 13 European countries. The changes in the index will be effective from 22 September. The selection is made from those companies included in the Dow Jones Stoxx 600, one of the stock indexes of reference internationally...