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HORIZONTAL PROGRAMMES

• Nanomedicine Platform Conference. March

• CDTI H200 course, in El Escorial, October

The process for becoming an ICTS (Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure) be-

came considerably dynamic. Contact with a complementary institution, the Jesús Usón

Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery (CCMIJU) was consolidated to create alliances
that allow more competitive candidates to strengthen the ICTS application, under a

single institution. Recognition of the programme as ICTS was requested by MINECO in

2013.

Information about the programme on the web has been updated permanently such
that more recent information about services and conditions are available for internal,

external and company research groups.

Collaborations initiated with companies were tracked. Some examples are the PHYTECH
project, in which two Spanish enterprises and one unit (Surface and Calorimetry Cha-

racterization) are involved in the framework of the INNPACTO Programme, and the Eu-

ropean project BERENICE (nanoformulation of benznidazol and triazol to fight Chagas
disease), involving 2 units (molecular biomaterial processing and nanostructuring unit

and the drug formulation unit), among others.

The new strategic action launched in 2011 to improve equipment platforms to develop
collaboration projects with enterprises and with the participation of one or more units

of the Programme continued in 2013.

In an attempt to promote collaborations with companies, making our services more

appealing, the line for supporting certification according to the ISO 9001 standard of
the units that are interested continued. The certification process for two units (Protein

Production Platform and In vivo Experiments Unit) continued in 2013.

Participation in some European initiatives was maintained. Some examples are:

• ETP Nanofutures. http://www.nanofutures.eu

• European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR).

http://www.eibir.org

• Council of European Bioregions (CEBR). http://www.cebr.net

• Project SM BIOPOWER. http://www.smbiopower.eu/

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