The IKUR 2030 Strategy is led by the Basque Government's Department of Science, Universities and I
- Research and training programmes of excellence
- Creating and managing cutting-edge infrastructures and equipment
- Structuring a scientific, technological and industrial community
- Providing specific resources (and targeting some of the existing ones to boost them)
The IKUR Strategy is based on this approach, using the European Commission's Flagship Initiatives as a reference point, suitably adapted to the reality of the Basque Country, and provides a number of characteristics of great added value:
- Focusing a significant amount of resources on specific scientific fields: major scientific initiatives
- Its long-term vision, but also featuring ambitious goals in the short and medium term
- Its ability to accelerate the impact of the research lines it conducts on society
To this end, IKUR provides resources and specific investments that make it possible to shorten development times and make a truly structural leap forward, beyond mere access to existing support instruments.
The IKUR Strategy is committed to positioning the Basque Country as an international science hub of excellence by taking part in cutting-edge projects and obtaining results with an economic and social impact.
Mission
To leverage structural change in the Basque Country with scientific, technological, business and social impact, based on driving flagship long-term research initiatives forward.
Vision
To position the Basque Country as a scientific hub of international renown with opportunities for industrial/business/institutional development in the scientific and technological areas selected.
The IKUR Strategy identifies 4 priority areas: Neurobiosciences, Quantum Technologies, Neutrionics and HPC&AA, areas aligned with the RIS3 priority areas of the Basque Country.
With a different starting reality in the Basque Country, these priority areas have two common features: they are strategic for the future of our society and we have outstanding scientific-technological capabilities in specific niches in each of them.
Neurobiosciences
- Development of advanced diagnostics and therapies to treat neurological diseases and other disorders
Quantum Technologies
- Development of cutting-edge scientific breakthroughs to foster the applicability of Quantm Technologies
Neutriónica
- Use of neutron science to characterize and study materials
- Neutrino research with high potential for scientific discoveries and technology transfer applications
High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC-AI)
- Use and extension of the performance of leading supercomputing infrastructures
- Intensive use of Artificial Intelligence as key tool for scientific breakthroughs
