The CRYSTAL project has recently passed its mid-term evaluation in Brussels.
Members from all partner organisations were present, making it a valuable opportunity to review progress, share results, and discuss the next steps for the project.
A big thank you to everyone involved for their continued collaboration and commitment.
Caser Residencial’s involvement in the European CRYSTAL project has been featured in local media, highlighting its commitment to innovation in the care sector. The coverage, led by Irunero and shared across digital platforms such as social media, showcases Caser’s role in advancing new technologies and improving quality standards in residential care. This visibility reinforces the…
During my secondment in the Basque Country, I worked closely with the Caser Betharram team in Hondarribia and the research team at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao. Together, we conducted several focus groups with both staff and residents of Caser residential homes in Bilbao and Irun. The goal of this exploratory work…
Link: https://siren.science/social-ai.html The themes of this Workshop are multidisciplinary in nature, and closely connected in their final aims to identifying features from realistic dynamics of signal exchanges. Such dynamics characterize, formal and informal social signals, communication modes, hearing and vision processes, and brain functionalities. Of particular interest are analyses of visual, written and auditory information…
At the Spanish national BRAINS project kick-off (19–20 Jan 2026), we presented CRYSTAL and our recent advances in:
Also, really valuable discussions with ML and robotics experts from Universidad de Zaragoza, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
During my secondment at AppTek GmbH in Aachen, I worked in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment shaped by close cooperation between three partners of the consortium: the University of the Basque Country (EHU), the University of Granada (UGR), and AppTek. I carried out the secondment together with Ksenia Kharitonova from UGR, and we worked in…
I arrived in Bilbao with a strong desire to challenge myself and to learn as much as this international doctoral experience could offer. At the same time, I carried rather modest expectations about the city itself. Very quickly, those expectations were overturned. Bilbao revealed a beauty that was both unexpected and deeply engaging, a place…
During our 3-month secondments working at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Teresa and I worked alongside a welcoming and supportive research team where we had the opportunity to collaborate on multiple ongoing projects within CRYSTAL. One of our main responsibilities throughout our secondments was to collaborate on the completion of a deliverable, thus…
From 11–14 November 2025, the Fall School of the CRYSTAL-RTTH project took place in Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain), gathering around 40 participants from academia and industry in an intensive four-day programme devoted to speech analytics and conversational systems. The programme featured a stellar lineup of keynote speakers and hands-on workshops: Jorge Andrés Gómez (CAR-CSIC) —…
On November 10th and 11th, the partners of the EU Project CRYSTAL gathered in Bilbao for a two-day face-to-face General Assembly, marking the completion of the project’s first year. During these two days, all partners worked closely together, addressing the open challenges, reviewing the progress made to date, and planning the next steps for the…