Activities

This area is thought to be the main instrument to promote Innovation and place the Agbar Group as a leader in its various business lines.

Internal promotion of R&D&i:

- Definition and coordination of the Group strategy
- Support of personnel training
- Promotion of the dissemination and exploitation of results

Promotion of the relationship with the technological environment:

- Universities and R&D&i Centres
- Management of experts and technological monitoring
- Technological networks

The objective of this area is to increase the quality of information, to improve processes and to increase communication, through the design and provision of added value services, that is to say, to increase the intellectual asset.

- Alert systems of normative, legislation and updated contents
- Query/Reply service with experts
- Information and queries about conferences, seminaries, congresses and specialized databases
- Documental digitalization with OCR technics
- Documental fund with more than 40,000 documents, 77% of them available on-line

This area coordinates the initiatives that promote sustainable development among the companies of the Agbar Group.

Internal promotion of sustainable development:

- Coordination of the Sustainable Development Committee of the Agbar Group
- Production of the Sustainability Report
- Encouragement of initiatives to improve the relationship with the stakeholders
- Dissemination both of environmental knowledge and of Group's activities in the field of sustainability

Coordination of the financing of sociocultural, training, research and dissemination projects.

The Museu de les Aigües, nowadays Agbar Museum, is a contemporary Museum that seeks to disseminate the values associated to the water culture through a living, recreational and educative experience.

- Industrial heritage: The museum is situated in a centennial enclosure. Its permanent exhibition is placed inside a building belonging to the industrial modernism. It holds the original machinery of a perfectly preserved hydraulic steam installation.

- Permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions: The permanent exhibition proposes the discovery of water as a substance, and a tour across the history of water supply in a big city. The museum wants to stand out, also, for the quality of its temporary exhibitions.

- Educative field: School activities, experimental workshops and dissemination of actions for all types of publics.

- Sociocultural activities: Music, theatre, storytellers, open-air cinema, thematic weeks, family activities, etc.