Institutional networks and alliances

	Organization	Relationship
	Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya	IBEC trustee
	Departament de Salut, Generalitat de Catalunya	IBEC trustee
	UB and UPC	IBEC’s trustees, with several research groups seconded to the institute
	Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA)	Five of IBEC’s group leaders are also ICREA research professors: Pau Gorostiza, Silvia Muro, Sámuel Sánchez, Xavier Trepat and Paul Verschure
	Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB)	Nanomalaria group (IBEC/CRESIB joint unit)
	Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN)
	Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED)
	Fundació Privada CELLEX

	Organization	Relationship
	Spanish Nanomedicine Platform (NanoMed Spain)	Managed by IBEC

	Organization	Relationship
	EIT Health e.V.	A consortium of more than 50 core partners and 90 associate partners from leading businesses, research centres and universities from across 14 EU countries. EIT Health was designated as an EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) by the EIT Governing Board on 9th December 2014. IBEC is a member of the EIT Health e.V. and its Supervisory Board, represented by IBEC’s Director Josep Samitier.
	EIT Health Spain	EIT Health Spain is an Association that has partners from three regions (Catalonia, Madrid and Valencia) involving universities, research institutes and companies in the three areas of the innovation triangle: research, education and business creation. IBEC is a member of the Association and its Governing Board, represented by IBEC’s Director Josep Samitier.
	Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (CERCA)	The Government of Catalonia’s means of supervising, supporting and facilitating the activities of Catalan research centres. Member
	BIOCAT	BIOCAT coordinates, develops and promotes the biotechnology, biomedicine and medical technology sectors in Catalonia, to make the region an international reference in terms of high quality research, competitive networks and an increasingly dynamic knowledge transfer system. One of BIOCAT’s strategic initiatives is B·Debate, which aims to drive top-notch international scientific events to foster debate, collaboration and open exchange of knowledge among experts of renowned national and international prestige in order to tackle complex challenges of high interest in the life sciences. Member
	BioNanoMed Catalunya	Founder (with BIOCAT)
	Associació Bioinformatics Barcelona (BIB)	Member
	Clúster de Tecnologies de la Salut	Member
	Barcelona Global	Member
	European Technological Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN) (https://vimeo.com/110448295)	Member
	Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute	Member
	Associació Catalana d’Entitats de Recerca (ACER)	IBEC Director Josep Samitier is the president. Established in 2003 by the Catalan government’s department of Universities, Investigation and Information Society, ACER is an independent association of more than 40 institutions in Catalonia which conduct research as their principal mission. The association’s goal is to help establish the region as an international benchmark in scientific and technological research by representing its associated centres, encouraging collaboration and the coordinated exchange of information, promoting synergies with similar agencies related to local, national or international research, and contributing to the improvement of scientific understanding in society.
	ITEMAS	Member
	ADVANCECAT	Member. Part of the RIS3CAT community

IBEC pursues opportunities to collaborate on a long-term basis with other world-class national or international research institutes, organisation or other bodies with a collaborative agreement or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

These formalise the participation of IBEC and the partner institute in cooperative scientific projects, promote the exchange of researchers, aid dissemination of information, the sharing of resources and the organization of joint events and activities.

IBEC has MoUs in place with the following organisations:

	Organization	Relationship
	Fundació Clínic/Hospital Clínic, Barcelona	Memorandum of Understanding
	Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona	Memorandum of Understanding
	National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan	Memorandum of Understanding
	Institute of Tissue Regeneration Engineering (ITREN), Dankook University, Korea	Memorandum of Understanding
	University of Warwick’s Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, UK	Memorandum of Understanding
	Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Barcelona	Memorandum of Understanding
	Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Badalona	Memorandum of Understanding
	Interstaatliche Hochschule für Technick Buchs (NTB), Switzerland	Memorandum of Understanding
	Barcelona Macula Foundation	Memorandum of Understanding
	Fundació Joan Costa Roma (JCRF), Terrassa	Memorandum of Understanding
	Open University of Catalonia (UOC)	Memorandum of Understanding
	Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN)	IBEC’s Nanotechnology Platform is considered an integrated service platform within CIBER-BBN
	Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy	Memorandum of Understanding