IBEC

Partnerships

While most of IBEC’s funds come from the Generalitat de Catalunya, the University of Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia, an increasing proportion comes from national and international competitive research funding, ranging from large instruments such as the EU’s Framework Programmes to independent or national foundations. Both projects and people are funded, with IBEC proud to be able to claim no fewer than 4 group leaders with their own support from one of Catalonia's most prestigious sources, ICREA, and 2 with highly sought-after ERC Starting Grants.

	Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
	Centro de Investigación Nacional en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN)
	CIBERNED
	CIBERES
	Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB)
	Obra Social "La Caixa"
	Fundación Botín

Research agreements
 and MoUs

IBEC constantly pursues opportunities to combine with other research institutes with an agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which promotes exchange of researchers to execute projects, the dissemination of information, sharing of resources and organization of joint activities, and the implementation of cooperative research between them.

	Universitat de Barcelona
	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
	Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Barcelona
	Hospital Clinic de Barcelona
	Bellvitge Institute of Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona
	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
	Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technik Buchs (NTB), Switzerland
	Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering (ITREN), Korea
	Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona
	University of Warwick, UK
	Barcelona Macula Foundation

Institutional initiatives 
and projects

In its role as the country’s leading research institute in bioengineering and nanomedicine, IBEC manages or is a partner of several national and international inititatives with a range of goals including bringing together entities to network and share resources, providing advice and support, organising events, or acting as a representative, collective voice or expert consultant for stakeholders or funders. 

	Plataforma Española de Nanomedicina
	Connect-EU

Strategic alliances

Several organisations exist at a local or national level to consolidate research efforts in particular fields, coordinate and encourage greater visibility for the activities of research centres, or bring together similar entities with a common goal from different regions. IBEC is a member or partner of the following organisations and initiatives.

	Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER)
	BioNanoMed Catalunya
	CERCA
	Biocat
	Biopol'H
	Nanoaracat
	European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN)
	Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute for Integrative Biomedical Research (Representative: Jérôme Noailly)
	Health Universitat de Barcelona Campus (HUBc)