BioBasque and its members participate in a variety of international and Spanish networks, apart from the already mentioned IASP, EBN, CONNECT, etc. Some examples:

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• EuropaBio: the European Association for Bioindustries (http://www.europabio.org) promotes an innovative and dynamic biotechnology-based industry in Europe. BioBasque is one of the 6 bioregions associated.

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• CEBR: the Council of European BioRegions (http://www.cebr.net) is a network of organisations that support their local biocommunity through direct services including networking, incubation, partnering and cluster promotion.

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• EuroTransBio (http://www.eurotransbio.net): One of the ERANET programmes, an initiative born from the will of some European member states and regions to work together in order to support trans-national R&D private/private and private/public co-operations between companies, especially SMEs, and academic labs by coordinating their national or regional public funding programmes. The Basque Country is one of the founders of this network.

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• HUPO: the Human Proteome Organisation (http://www.hupo.org/) is an international consortium that promotes the development of proteomics research, facilitates collaborations, and has the ultimate goal of identifying all proteins involved in a particular biological process and the interactions between them. BioBasque participates through a consortium led by CIC bioGUNE, which is also the Spanish representative in HUPO. The main asset is the existence of experienced researchers and a state-of-the-art, comprehensive Proteomics platform.

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• CIBERs - Networked Biomedical Research Centres: Fostered by the Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumer Care, several groups join with the mission of conducting monographic research into a well-defined specific pathology or health problem (important for their prevalence or social repercussions) through multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional translational Research Centres, that bring together basic, clinical and population-based research. Basque research groups take part in several CIBERs:

• RETICs - Co-operative health research networks: Also fostered by the Spanish Ministry of Health, these are Networks of groups with common lines and aims of research. The Basque groups participate in 25 RETICs... Read more >>