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IBEC currently has 17 research groups and 250 researchers and staff from 20 different countries (Foto IBEC).
 27.10.2016

IBEC has been designated one of five EU Centers of Excellence in Health in new EC report

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has been designated one of five European Centres of Excellence (CoE) in Health in a report by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research & Innovation on European Union international positioning. The other European organizations named as Health CoEs are: CEA Tech- Leti (Grenoble, France); the Trinity College Dublin (Germany); el King's College London (United Kingdom) and the Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam (Belgium, Netherlands).

 

In the report,  “Study on EU Positioning: An Analysis of the International Positioning of the EU Using Revealed Comparative Advantages and the Control of Key Technologies”, IBEC appears alongside 27 other CoEs in Europe in nine H2020 areas: Nanotechnology, Photonics, Advanced Manufacturing, ICT/Cyber Security, Health, Food/Agriculture/Forestry, Energy, Transport, and Climate/Resources. IBEC, which appears under Health, is the only institute in Spain to appear in the table.

This report has been prepared for the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation by Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe (Germany)and IDEA Consult, Brussels (Belgium). It provides an assessment of the international positioning of the EU with respect to research and innovation in each of the thematic areas funded in Horizon 2020, including identification of centres of excellence in those areas.The report, which was commissioned as a response to the challenges faced by the EU in maintaining its international postioning in terms of trade and influence with intense competition from the USA and China.

The Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) conducts excellent interdisciplinary research at the frontiers of engineering and life sciences in order to generate new knowledge by putting together fields like nanomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, tissue engineering and the applications of health information technology. IBEC was established in 2005 by the Ministries of Innovation, Universities and Enterprises and Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Autonomous Government of Catalonia), the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). 

The institute currently has 17 research groups and 250 researchers and staff from 20 different countries. The location of IBEC at the Barcelona Science Park offers a highly stimulating biomedical environment in which the institute can work closely with organisations from the public and private sector interested in the biomedical application of nanotechnology.