Promote translational research and health innovation, to create value and generate an impact on health for society:

• Fostering collaboration between clinical and basic research.
• Serving as a meeting point between the health system, industry and the ecosystem of scientific and technological knowledge.
• Guaranteeing the sustainability of healthcare research and innovation.

Vision

Differentiating itself as a translational research and healthcare innovation center that is a reference at the regional and state levels, leading international and high-impact projects, and becoming a center for attracting clinical, research and innovative talent.

Values

• Impact: the research and innovation of the IIS Biobizkaia will aspire to have a significant impact on improving the health of the population, as well as on the generation of economic and social wealth in its environment.
• Excellence and spirit of improvement: the professionals of the IIS Biobizkaia will seek to develop quality health research and innovation, working to continuously improve the Institute's activity and results.
• Creativity and open innovation: the IIS Biobizkaia will foster disruptive and innovative thinking among the professionals who make up the Institute.
• Leadership: the Institute's activity will be aimed at configuring the IIS Biobizkaia as a recognizable hallmark of research and innovative quality at a state and international level.
• Collaboration: the IIS Biobizkaia will promote the establishment of alliances and joint work with the national and international research and innovation ecosystem.
• Integration: the Institute's professionals will work in a cohesive manner with the aim of optimizing coordination between the different research, innovation and management profiles that make up the IIS Biobizkaia.
• Equality: the IIS Biobizkaia will guarantee equal access for professionals to the different opportunities for professional development and fundraising.
• Sustainability: the IIS Biobizkaia and its professionals will efficiently manage physical and economic resources, also minimizing the environmental impact of the Institute's activity.

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.