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19.11.2018

The CCiTUB included as nodes in two ICTS

On November 6, the Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy Council (CPCTI), in a session chaired by Minister Pedro Duque, approved the new update of the Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructures (ICTS) map, in force until 2020, integrated by 29 entities, all of them of public ownership, singular and of competitive open access, with a total of 62 infrastructures all of them operative. The number of ICTS is maintained in relation to the previous map, but the number of infrastructures is increased by the incorporation of new nodes to existing ICTS distributed.

In the new map, part of the infrastructures of the CCiTUB appear integrated in two ICTS, passing the University of Barcelona to be one of the three Universities recognized with two nodes at the state level and the only one in Catalonia.

Network of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Laboratories of Biolysmolecules (R-LRB)

The NMRI facilities of the CCiTUB, located in the Cluster building of the Parc Científic de Barcelona, have been qualified as ICTS since 2000 and this qualification has been renewed now becoming part of the Network of MRI Laboratories of Biomolecules, to the which have joined two new nodes: Manuel Rico NMR Laboratory of the State Agency for Higher Council of Scientific Research - CSIC and the NMR Laboratory of Euskadi of the Association Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences - CIC bioGUNE. This network is included in the field of Health Sciences and Biotechnology.

The MRI laboratory of the CCiTUB, has as main objective the realization of very high field NMR experiments for the study of the structure and dynamics of complex molecules of biological interest and to give advice to all companies and researchers on the applications of the MRI in this field. Their teams contribute to research in various areas, such as chemistry, molecular biology, cell and genetics, food science and technology, pharmacy and biotechnology, among others.

Integrated Infrastructure of Electron Microscopy of Materials (ELECMI)

On the other hand, the installations of the Unit of Transmission Electron Microscopy of the CCiTUB, together with infrastructures of other related techniques, will constitute from now on the UMEAP (Unit of Electron Microscopy applied to Materials) that has been recognized as a node within the ICSI ELECMI (Integrated Infrastructure of Electron Microscopy of Materials) of which the Laboratory of Advanced Microscopy (LMA) of the University of Zaragoza, the National Center of Electron Microscopy (CNME) of the Complutense University of Madrid and the Division are also part of Electron Microscopy of the University of Cádiz (DME-UCA).

ELECMI is included in the ICTS map within the area of Materials, an area in which CCiTUBs have a large selection of characterization techniques that complement the electronic microscopes themselves, such as microprobes, X-ray diffractometers , Raman microscopy, etc. These techniques make available to researchers the possibility of developing new methodologies without the limitations presented by disciplinary boundaries.

ICTS As explained by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the term Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) refers to facilities, resources or services needed to develop state-of-the-art, high-quality research, as well as for the transmission , exchange and preservation of knowledge, the transfer of technology and the promotion of innovation. The ultimate goal is the provision of the national and international scientific, technological and industrial community of state-of-the-art scientific-technical infrastructures, indispensable for the development of competitive and quality scientific and technological research, understood as those technical means that are unique or exceptional in their kind, with a very high investment and / or maintenance cost and operation and whose importance and strategic nature justifies its availability for the entire R&D collective. The ICTS have three fundamental characteristics, they are publicly owned infrastructures, they are unique and they are open to competitive open access'.

The ICTS are distributed throughout the state territory and are collected in what is called the "Map of Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures (ICTS).

The first ICTS Map dates from January 11, 2007, and is updated every four years, with the Scientific, Technological and Innovation Policy Council (CPCTI) being the competent body for approval. The first update was agreed at the CPCTI meeting on October 7, 2014 and has remained in effect until November 6, 2018, the date on which the CPCTI has approved this new update for the period 2017-2020.