The internet is all around us: in the sensors that measure our speed, distance, and heart rate as we run, that monitor the temperature in the environment or in boilers, in cameras that analyze street or store traffic, or in devices that monitor and identify anomalies

This strand involves anything related to knowledge creation, capture, and distribution and projects designed to make knowledge accessible for people to learn new skills, techniques and methods for all kinds of activities. Today more than ever, education is an area with great potential to create tools, knowledge and distribution mechanisms suitable for post-COVID-19 life

Urban mobility has undergone enormous transformation with the appearance of electric car, scooters, autonomous vehicles, and drones for delivery and surveillance. New opportunities are opening up to create mass transport with a high level of sanitary protection, and pollution control, designed to move people and products.

Biotechnology is an area of exponential development for both health and food production. This area includes the development of new vaccines and medicines, as well as the study of human reaction to new treatments. The combination of Biotechnology with other areas ranging from social issues, data management, production processes is important to guarantee human survival, allowing us to live longer and altering the way we must take care of ourselves to stay healthy.

The transition from a society highly supported by internal combustion engines to a new generation of propulsion methods based on electrical energy has driven the switch from oil to new technologies. These can be related to solar cells, wind or marine energy or other ways of storing and transmitting energy. The invitation is to discover new materials allowing the change from fossil fuel-based energy generation to clean and sustainable energy generation.

By spending more time at home, people need more elements of distraction ranging from literary, film and theater production to leisure activities that fuel people's interest, lower stress levels and increase level of optimism and happiness through a combination of humanism, psychology and cultural entertainment.

The appearance of COVID-19 has had a great impact on Information and Communication Technologies, accelerating digital transformation to levels never seen before, forcing the population to use technology on a daily basis, and inviting new ways of collaboration, communication, security and interaction. We have entered a new stage of using existing technologies and developing new ones to maintain the standard of living and efficiency that we are used to.