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The October issue of the magazine El Temps lays out the four future challenges facing universities in Catalonia. Joan J. Guinovart, director of IRB Barcelona, was consulted about transfer and funding issues.
Among his opinions, Guinovart upholds that "if we want to reach the level of research of the US or England, we certainly have to ask for more public funding, but we also have to be aware that philanthropists, donors and private resources make all the difference "(....)"In the US, people feel that they have a moral duty to return the fruits of their success to society in the form of donations to their universities, to the hospitals in which they or their relatives have been treated, to research centres that investigate diseases that affect them....Here we have to work on this sentiment to turn it into something that can be considered normal".
Read the whole report here: Universitat: quatre reptes de futur (In Catalan)
About IRB Barcelona
The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) pursues a society free of disease. To this end, it conducts multidisciplinary research of excellence to cure cancer and other diseases linked to ageing. It establishes technology transfer agreements with the pharmaceutical industry and major hospitals to bring research results closer to society, and organises a range of science outreach activities to engage the public in an open dialogue. IRB Barcelona is an international centre that hosts 400 researchers and more than 30 nationalities. Recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence since 2011, IRB Barcelona is a CERCA centre and member of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST).
