The BIST Forum has held a new edition at CosmoCaixa with the aim of consolidating knowledge transfer and the creation of new industry based on scientific research. The conference has had outstanding institutional support from the Minister of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia, Núria Montserrat, the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu, and the Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Maria Eugènia Gay.
As a keynote speaker, the President of the European Investment Bank, Nadia Calviño, analysed the strategic role of frontier research as a driver to shape the industry of the future.
The annual meeting of the BIST scientific community, made up of seven major research centres of the CERCA system (CRG, ICFO, ICIQ, ICN2, IFAE, and IRB Barcelona) has served to discuss which organisational, legal and funding elements are necessary to capitalise on the scientific discoveries made in Europe and in our country, in order to generate a new scalable industry that allows us to maintain our social model.
BIST Ignite Award
The BIST Forum also hosted the BIST Ignite Awards, designed to foster new partnerships between BIST centres, fostering interdisciplinary approaches to address complex scientific challenges. And in this 8th edition, two projects with representation from the ICIQ have been selected in the following calls.
BIST Ignite Seed, call for new proposals:
· RADIANT Project
Raman-Accelerated Deep-learning Imaging and Nanoscale Thermometry (RADIANT), presented by Dr. Timm Swoboda, postdoc at ICN2 and Dr. Hind Benzidi, postdoc at ICIQ.
This project will receive 20,000 euros of initial funding to support its development, subsidized by the participating centers.
BIST Ignite Award call:
· Breath-CO2 Project
Breaking Boundaries with the New Generation of Chiral Hybrids for CO2-Electrolysers through Atomic-Scale Visualization, presented by Dra. Alba Garzón Manjón, Associate Researcher at ICN2, Dr. Felipe Andrés Garcés Pineda, Ramon y Cajal Researcher at ICIQ, and Dra. Viktoria Golovanova, postdoc at ICFO.
This project received initial recognition from the BIST Ignite Seed in 2025. And in this edition, it has been consolidated with the BIST Ignite, in its second phase and will receive €50,000 in funding for its execution.
La entrada Double BIST Ignite Award for ICIQ Research se publicó primero en ICIQ.