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 less than five group leaders with their own support from one of the most prestigious sources, ICREA.

	Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)
	Centro de Investigación Nacional en Red en Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN)
	CIBERNED
	CIBERES
	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
	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
	University of Warwick, UK

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
	NANOfutures
	Connect-EU
	BioNanoMed Catalunya
	Key Enabling Technologies

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)
	Catalan Researcher Mobility Node
	Interbio
	Biocat
	Biopol'H
	Nanoaracat
	European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN)
	European Federation of Biotechnology (EFB)
	Health Universitat de Barcelona Campus (HUBc)