Management Areas

The mission of the IMIBIC R+D+I Management Area is to offer a comprehensive service to research personnel, both from research groups and from Clinical Management and Primary Care Units, through a one-stop shop: the Project Manager. Its main objective is to provide the necessary support to the professional so that there is an adequate management and development of their scientific projects, agreements, service provision contracts and donations, as well as their corresponding justification and closure before the funding bodies.

Services we provide:

• Advice for attracting both public and private funding.
• Operational management of grants.
• Advice and management of international projects.
• Management of clinical trials.
• Methodological support, statistical analysis and advice for scientific dissemination.
• Legal assistance for the correct formalization of collaboration and service agreements, among others.
• Management of personnel recruitment for projects, contracts, agreements, donations and clinical trials.

The team, led by a manager, is made up of managers who have the different research groups and clinical and primary management units distributed by clients. In addition, the area also has management staff specialized in international projects and technical staff with expertise in project execution/justification for administrative support to the team:

The Innovation Management Area has the following objectives:

• Identify the intangible assets resulting from the research carried out within its competencies.
• To provide comprehensive advice on the correct protection and transfer of research results.
• To develop permanent and strategic contact with the business sector, in order to seek agreements and synergies both in attracting resources for the development of projects and for the exploitation of the knowledge generated.
• Offer legal assistance for the correct formalization of collaboration and exploitation agreements, among others.
• Support and encourage the creation of spin-offs.

For more information, please consult the following link Innovation

The team is composed of an area manager and an innovation management technician:

The area is made up of:

Equipo de control de gestión y reporting

The objective of the management control and reporting team is to obtain and analyze the information that serves as a basis for the Scientific Direction and Management of the Institute for decision making. Likewise, being a transversal area, it provides support to the different management areas and research groups that make up the IMIBIC.

Our activity consists in favoring the fulfillment of the following functions:

• Monitoring and analysis of the indicators included in the Strategic Plan (Balanced Scorecard and other indicators that make up the sub-plans).
• Calculation and monitoring of the indicators included in the ISCIII Accreditation Guide for subsequent reporting to the ISCIII.
• Support tasks for the achievement of institutional accreditations.
• Evaluation of the research groups verifying compliance with the applicable criteria, as well as the review of the annual objectives of the personnel hired by the Foundation.
• Carrying out controls and verifying the correct entry and registration of information in control software, implementing the data quality and auditing system.
• Preparation of the annual scientific report of the Institute.
• Support to the R&D Management and Innovation and Transfer Areas in updating the data of the reports to be presented in the different calls for proposals.
• Drafting of minutes, certificates, and various documents and review of institutional documents (Internal Operating Regulations, Professional Itinerary, Affiliation Policy, SOPs, ...).
• Updating the website in relation to institutional information and scientific production of the groups.

In addition, this area carries out the functions of Technical Secretary: management of any event to be held at IMIBIC facilities, whether considered internal or external, with the consequent reservation of rooms, budget tracking, travel arrangements, necessary technical means, attention and reception of visitors in the events organized by IMIBIC..., to ensure the success of the same.

The area is made up of:

Communication and protocol team

The communication and protocol area has the task of positioning and promoting the image of IMIBIC as a national reference center in excellent science, giving visibility to the different research lines of the groups that make up the Institute and to the results of the same. This area is also the main link between the IMIBIC scientific community and the different social groups.

The communication and protocol team offers services to the research groups, management areas and the Institute's management team in their needs for external communication, scientific communication and dissemination, media management, event organization, internal communication, coordination of the RRI strategy, fundraising support, graphic design and audiovisual communication.

The RRI strategy, promoted within the framework of the European Orion project (Open Responsible Research and Innovation to further Outstanding knowledge) of the Institute, aims to encourage the active participation of society in science and innovation from the earliest stages of research projects in order to ensure that future results are as closely aligned as possible with social needs. In this sense, from the area of communication and protocol, actions are developed in the six lines of this strategy: ethics, governance, gender equality, open access, public commitment and health education.

The area is made up of:

Equipo de calidad y formación

The objective of the quality area is to ensure that the processes comply with the quality criteria imposed by the corresponding regulations, as well as to advise and support the research staff with the needs they may have in this regard. On the other hand, the training area promotes and develops training programs aimed at the professionals working at IMIBIC and the rest of the interest groups, in order to guarantee a permanent system of knowledge transmission of excellence, updated and adapted to each of the different groups of professionals that compose it.

For more information, please consult the following links: Quality - Training

The area is made up of:

Equipo Legal

The Legal Team is committed to providing legal advice to the Foundation itself and to IMIBIC's research groups to ensure that all activities are carried out in accordance with the applicable regulations. In particular, its work is focused on three main areas which are:

• Clinical Research: negotiation and review of contracts for the performance of clinical studies, coordinating communication with the Pharmaceutical Industry for all those aspects that affect the processing of agreements.
• Public Procurement: drafting of administrative specifications, as well as monitoring of the administrative procedure from the publication of the bidding announcements to the signing of the corresponding contracts, supporting the Economic Management Area.
• Legal Advice: drafting, reviewing and monitoring contracts with third parties covering a wide range of activities, such as sponsorships, training activities, donations, etc.

The area is made up of: