Misión, visión y valores
Mission
To promote translational research and healthcare innovation to create value and impact health and quality of life for society:
- With an integrative approach at all levels of the Institute in Bizkaia and with the capacity to translate this into healthcare.
- Serving as a meeting point for all stakeholders in the sector to develop high-quality, cutting-edge R&D&I with a multidisciplinary approach.
- Guaranteeing the sustainability of healthcare research and innovation.
Vision
To consolidate itself as the prestigious center of reference for translational research and healthcare innovation at the national and international levels. Internationally, leading high-quality, high-impact projects and establishing itself as a hub for attracting clinical, research, and innovative talent.
Values
- Integration and collaboration: The Institute's professionals will work cohesively with the aim of optimizing coordination between the different research, innovation, and management profiles that make up the IIS Biobizkaia. It will promote the establishment of alliances and joint work with the national and international research and innovation ecosystem.
- Leadership: The Institute's activities will be directed toward establishing the IIS Biobizkaia as a recognizable symbol of research and innovation quality at the national and international levels.
- Impact: The research and innovation of the IIS Biobizkaia will aim to have a significant impact on improving the health of the population, as well as on generating economic and social wealth in its surrounding area.
- Excellence and a spirit of improvement: The professionals at the IIS Biobizkaia will strive to develop quality healthcare research and innovation, working to continuously improve the Institute's activities and results.
- Creativity and open innovation: The IIS Biobizkaia will foster disruptive and innovative thinking among the professionals who make up the Institute.
- Equality: The IIS Biobizkaia will guarantee equal access for professionals to various opportunities for professional development and fundraising.
- Sustainability: The IIS Biobizkaia and its professionals will efficiently manage physical and financial resources, while minimizing the environmental impact of the Institute's activities.
Biobizkaia strategic objectives
Strategic Plan 2023-2027 | IIS Biobizkaia (PDF)
Research and innovation
- Strengthen research areas, fostering synergies between research groups.
- Promote excellent translational research and innovation, supporting consolidated and emerging research groups.
- Promote the development of platforms as a key element to support research and innovation.
Talent
- Promote the recognition of health research and innovation in the public health system.
- Promote the research career at the Institute and in the public health system to guarantee generational change.
- Strengthen the systems for generating, attracting and retaining state and international research and innovative talent.
Alliances and internationalization
- Promote collaboration with the research and innovation ecosystem and the business fabric of the Basque Country.
- Consolidate the participation and leadership of the IIS Biobizkaia in collaborative projects, national and European R&D&i forums and networks.
Management and integration
- Adapt the processes, procedures and management instruments to the needs of the research and innovative activity of the IIS Biobizkaia.
- Promote the integration of researchers of all profiles and all the entities that make up the Institute.
- Incorporate good practices linked to RRI (Responsible Research and Innovation) into the IIS Biobizkaia.
Declaration of transparency
The Biobizkaia Health Research Institute is a non-profit Association, one of its values being transparency. That is why the Institute's Management Area makes this value its own, materializing in the achievement of Research objectives with transparency and effectiveness in the functions it performs.
Regarding funding, the Association receives both public and private funding from:
- Public bodies: MINECO, ISCIII, FEDER, Basque Government Department of Health, etc.
- Private entities: Pharmaceutical laboratories, private companies, foundations, associations, etc.
Principal researchers may receive donations for their research projects from Entities or individuals that are managed by the Institute for this purpose.
