2024/03/18

CIC bioGUNE and CIC biomaGUNE organize a round table on “Science and Innovation” with political parties with representation in the Basque Parliament

The event, to be chaired by Jose María Mato, General Director of CIC bioGUNE and CIC biomaGUNE, will be held on Wednesday, March 20th, in the auditorium of the Zamudio/Derio Campus Headquarters Building of the Basque Country Technology Park.

Representatives of EAJ-PNV, EH Bildu, PSE-EE, Elkarrekin Podemos and Partido Popular will present their proposals on this issue included in their electoral programs for the forthcoming Basque Parliament elections, to be held on 21 April.

CIC bioGUNE and CIC biomaGUNE, research centers and members of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), are organizing a round table on "Science and Innovation" on Wednesday, March 20th, with political parties with representation in the Basque Parliament this last political term 2020-2024. The aim of the panel discussion is to find out what each party's program proposes in this area in the run-up to the elections to the Basque Parliament, to be held on Sunday, April 21st.

Estibaliz Hernáez, Vice-Minister of Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation, representing EAJ-PNV; Lore Martínez Axpe, Member of Parliament and Secretary for Digitalisation of EH Bildu; Denis Itxaso, head of the list of candidates of the PSE-EE for Gipuzkoa; Víctor Lasa, spokesperson for Elkarrekin Podemos in the City Council of Donostia-San Sebastián; and Muriel Larrea, Member of the Basque Parliament and President of the Partido Popular in Gipuzkoa, have all confirmed their attendance. Vox, for its part, has declined the invitation to participate in the round table.

The event will take place this Wednesday, from 10:30, in the auditorium of the Zamudio/Derio Campus Headquarters Building of the Basque Country Technology Park (Ibaizabal Bidea, 101. Zamudio). All those involved in research activity at the 17 research centers (Azterlan, AZTI, Ceit, CIC bioGUNE, CIC biomaGUNE, CIC energiGUNE, CIC nanoGUNE, Cidetec, Gaiker, Ideko, Ikerlan, Leartiker, Lortek, Neiker, Tecnalia, Tekniker and Vicomtech) that make up the BRTA, as well as those who wish to learn more about the plans of the political parties on science and innovation in the run-up to the forthcoming elections, are invited to attend.

The round table will be chaired by José M Mato, General Director of CIC bioGUNE and CIC biomaGUNE. Each party representative will have two turns to speak: the first, for 5 minutes, and the second, for 3 minutes, at the end of which the chair will ask the panelists a series of questions previously written and submitted by the members of the audience. The questions will be the same for the representatives of all five political parties. This initiative, with the enforced break in 2020 due to the pandemic, is now in its third year since it was first launched in 2012.

About CIC bioGUNE

The Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE), a member of the Basque Research & Technology Alliance (BRTA), located in the Science and Technology Park of Bizkaia, is a biomedical research organization conducting cutting-edge research at the interface of chemical, structural, molecular, and cellular biology. It focuses particularly on generating knowledge about the molecular bases of diseases for use in the development of new diagnostic and prognostic methods and advanced therapies.

About CIC biomaGUNE

The Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), member of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), conducts cutting-edge research at the interface between Chemistry, Biology and Physics, and particularly on the properties of molecular level biological nanostructures and their biomedical applications.
CIC biomaGUNE was accredited in 2018 as a “María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence, after assessment of its compliance with a series of excellence requirements characterized by a high impact and level of competitiveness in its field of activity and in the scientific arena worldwide.

About BRTA

BRTA is an alliance formed by four collaborative research centers (CIC bioGUNE, CIC nanoGUNE, CIC biomaGUNE, and CIC energiGUNE) and 12 technological centers (Azterlan, Azti, Ceit, Cidetec, Gaiker, Ideko, Ikerlan, Lortek, Neiker, Tecnalia, Tekniker, and Vicomtech). Its objective is to develop advanced technological solutions for the Basque business fabric.
With the support of the Basque Government, the SPRI Group, and the Provincial Councils of the three territories, the alliance aims to promote collaboration among its member centers, strengthen conditions for generating and transferring knowledge to companies to enhance their competitiveness, and project the scientific and technological capacity of the Basque Country internationally.

BRTA has a staff of 3,500 professionals, executes 22% of the R&D investment in Euskadi, records an annual turnover exceeding 300 million euros, and generates 100 European and international patents each year.

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