AccessCat Network

The Accessibility Innovation Network of Catalonia is a knowledge transfer network. We want to offer solutions to a diverse society where everyone should have access to information and communication

Come visit us at Smart City from November 4 to 6

The AccessCat Network returns to the Smart City Expo World Congress 2025 with seven research groups: TransMedia Catalonia, CLiC, TraDiLex, TRACTE, TALN, Nodes, and MiA. Come learn about their research on communicative accessibility in smart cities.

A wide, overhead view of a Smart City exhibition hall, with brightly colored booth areas in yellow, orange, green, and blue, and many attendees walking between technology company stands.

Research, innovation, networking and accessibility: come to the 2nd AccessCat Innovation Day

The AccessCat Network serves as a bridge between the world of research and the social and business fabric. That’s why we want to meet with all of you at the 2nd AccessCat Innovation Day.

It will take place on November 25 at Hub Social BCN. A day bringing together research groups, partner organizations, companies, and institutions interested in the field of communicative accessibility to share ideas, innovation, technology, research, and problem-solving. A morning of research, innovation, and networking in accessibility. Will you join us? Reserve your spot.

Poster for the 2nd AccessCat Innovation Day, November 25

These are the 20 research groups in the AccessCat Network

The main goal of the research carried out by the research groups of the AccessCat Network is to provide accessibility solutions for a diverse society that must be inclusive and universal.

Who are they? What do they do? What technologies, services, and educational resources do they offer? Learn more about AFIN Barcelona, CLiC, DiCode, DIDPATRI, Digital Care, GIAP, GRIHO, GTI, LMI, LSC Lab, MiA, Neolcyt, Nodes, QURBIS, ReLaTe, STS-b, TALN, TRACTE, TraDiLex, and TransMedia Catalonia.

Cardboard cubes with the logos of the research groups of the Network decorate the CCCB at the AccessCat Innovation Day.

Meet the affiliated entities that support the AccessCat Network

AccessCat serves as a bridge between research and industry. That is what motivated dozens of entities to become affiliated: to be part of a community that connects researchers, institutions, experts, companies, and entities linked to the accessibility sector.

Would you like to know more about the 76 affiliated entities that, through their work, manage to sow seeds in favour of accessibility in society? Check our index.

Join the AccessCat Network

Are you an entity, company, or institution that shares the mission, values, and objectives of the network? Do you work in the field of communication and information accessibility, or is your mission to make your products, services, and activities more accessible? Join AccessCat. All entities, companies, or institutions particularly interested in the Network’s mission and its derived results are welcome to join AccessCat without any financial commitment. We look forward to hearing from you.

Free online training capsules available from the AccessCat Network

The AccessCat Training Capsules (The 15x15 of 2023, The 6x15 of 2024, and The 6x15 of 2025), organised by AccessCat and led by researchers from the Network’s research groups, aim to raise awareness and teach basic accessibility concepts across various fields such as culture or tech. Also, the AccessCat Demos, demonstrations of the accessibility technologies developed by AccessCat researchers, are now available online.