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he validity of the Strategic Plan governing the scientific activity of CIBERESP since

its creation ended in 2010. The amendment to the Bylaws together with the new
challenges identified throughout the 2007-2010 period underlined the need to

adapt the Multiannual Action Plan of the Consortium for the 2011-2014 period to the
new detected needs.

In 2013, efforts in planning the scientific activity of the Consortium focused on the

consolidation of a new Strategic Plan for the four-year 2011-2014 period.

The result of this process was reflected in a document characterized by the definition of

seven scientific research and collaborative programmes in the area of epidemiology and
public health and a training plan. Each of said programmes is led by a coordinator, who

is a member of the Consortium Steering Committee, with strategic objectives defined

for the period and main lines of research aimed at fulfilling all these objectives. The
activity of each research group is comprised in one of the seven research programmes

within which one or more strategic subprogrammes are in turn defined. The definition
of these strategic subprogrammes involved the act of specifying the activities to be

promoted in the next four years. These activities are important collaborative research

initiatives that bring together many CIBERESP groups and institutions and receive
an institutional framework and complementary funding from the consortium assuring

their stability and reinforcing their scientific quality, collaboration and coordination.

CIBERESP operating as a networking centre is fully committed to intramural collabo-

ration, both intra-programme and inter-programmes, having stable bridges of collabo-
ration among the groups forming it. At the same time, reinforcing collaborations with

other national and international research centres has been proposed, thus allowing
large-scale research projects that would be difficult to conduct alone.

Similarly, in its new Strategic Plan CIBERESP expresses the need to reinforce its par-

ticipation on an international level, both at the research project level and by means of

participation in European policy decision-making forums, including an individualized
internationalization plan for each programme.

CIBERESP also does not look overlook the need to disseminate and communicate the

research results obtained, a basic activity for transferring the generated knowledge
and for assessing R+D+I activity, reserving within each programme a section aimed

particularly at communication and dissemination of these results.

The Consortium as a public centre also undertakes to promote scientific culture by

using the technical resources at its disposal and particularly its web portal, and by
participating in initiatives aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge and activity to

society as a whole, such as Science Week.

The initiatives and results obtained throughout 2013 with particular attention to the

most outstanding strategic subprogrammes in progress throughout this year are des-
cribed below.
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