News of interest

Neurobiosciences: New ERC Advanced Grant to study coherence between brain rhythms and speech
(2024/4/11) - Manuel Carreiras, Research Professor and Scientific Director of the BCBL research center, is one of the 11 researchers who have received an ERC Advanced Grant...
Hyperion: the new supercomputer from the Basque Country
(2024/2/19) - Hyperion triples the power of its predecessor with more than 14,000 cores and 150 TB of RAM, serving the entire research community in the Basque Country.
Quantum Technologies: Presentation of the Basque Quantum project
(3/24/2023) - Euskadi will host the IBM Quantum System One computer, the world's sixth quantum supercomputer
New research building
(2023/1/19) - The new building is promoted by Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science, and it will house scientific groups from the Basque Country that work in key areas of research identified in the IKUR Strategy of the Basque Government.
Neutrionics: A DIPC researcher obtains a European grant of 1.5 million euros
(2022/1/11) - Francesc Monrabal, Ikerbasque researcher at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), has obtained the prestigious ERC Starting Grant.
Neurobiosciences: The Basque Country boasts the most advanced electronic cryo-microscope in the world
(2021/12/15) - The ThermoFisher Titan Kios G4 cryo-microscope is the first major infrastructure acquired by the Basque Government under the IKUR 2030 Strategy, launched by the Department of Education in the field of excellence research.
IKUR 2030: focus on strategic research areas
(2021/3/27) - The Department of Education will invest 100 million euros -additional to the budget-, over the next 10 years.

IKUR Updates

IKUR-Neutrionics: Progress of supported projects
(06/07/2024) - Last Friday, June 7th, the progress of the collaborative and co-tutelaged projects supported by IKUR during the 2022-2024 period was shared with the IKUR-Neutronics community.
IKUR-Neurobiosciences: Progress of supported projects
(05/08/2024) - Last Wednesday, May 8th, the progress of the collaborative projects supported by IKUR during the 2023-2024 period was shared with the IKUR-Neurobiociencias community.
Strategy IKUR: Presentations of the strategic areas
(01/06/2024) - The scientific coordinators of the IKUR areas, Iban Ubarretxena, Ricardo Díez and Daniel Sanchez, present the challenges and priorities of each area, as well as the activities supported so far.