Governance

The IKUR Strategy was designed as a programme with a work time frame up to 2030. In this sense, it is a 10-year programme whose continuity and consolidation depends on periodically evaluating its results.

The following governance is in place:

  • The Department of Science, Universities and Innovation of the Basque Government as the driving force and leader of the Strategy in terms of managing and developing it
  • A scientific coordinator appointed by the Basque Government in each of the priority areas:
    • Iban Ubarretxena Belandia (Biofisika) in the field of Neurobiosciences
    • Daniel Sánchez Portal (MPC) in the field of Neutrionics
    • Ricardo Díez Muiño (DIPC) in the fields of Quantum Technologies and, High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC-IA)
  • Ikerbasque as the entity responsible for managing and distributing resources
  • Euskampus Fundazioa as Technical Secretariat

Investment mobilised and to be mobilised

The IKUR Strategy has its own funding provided by the Basque Government's Department of Science, Universities and Innovation. This contribution of resources is intended to be seed capital which, together with additional funding from other sources, should allow the research centres and groups taking part in IKUR to strengthen their positioning and facilitate their access to international calls and projects of note.

In this sense, the IKUR Strategy's operating model is a risk-sharing venture between the Government and the participating research groups and actors, insofar as the resources granted must be topped up with their own resources or access to other sources of funding to which these excellent research groups and actors are accustomed to successfully accessing on a regular basis.