UPF and UB sign an agreement to collaborate in the BIST’s “Ciutadella del Coneixement” project

by Virginia Greco

The two universities will collaborate for concrete actions, among which is the participation in the boards of trustees of three of the BIST centres that will be located in the new BIST building. Director of programmes Dr Núria Bayó represented BIST at the ceremony.

The Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the University of Barcelona (UB) are joining forces to support the project for the establishment of a Ciutadella del Coneixement (Citadel of Knowledge) at the Mercat del Peix in Barcelona. On March 3, the rectors of the two institutes, Prof. Oriol Amat (UPF) and Prof. Joan Guàrdia (UB), signed a four-year collaboration agreement to carry out four specific actions: participation in the boards of trustees of the three centres that, together with the ICN2, will be located in the BIST Precision Medicine building–the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)—, development of the Zoo Research project (with the Barcelona Zoo Foundation), cooperation between the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF) and the Institute for Research on Biodiversity (IRBio, UB), and collaboration in UPF’s Planetary Wellbeing project.