Award-winning UB centres receive the distinctions María de Maeztu and Severo Ochoa
Yesterday, the distinctions Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu, conferred by the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness, were given to the centres awarded on the last call. The award ceremony was chaired by Carmen Vela, secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation.
On behalf of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB), the director, Lluís Garrido, and the scientific director, Josep M. Paredes, collected the award. Moreover, Josep Samitier, professor of Electronics from the UB, received the distinction Severo Ochoa, as the director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Finally, on behalf of the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath), a centre affiliated with the UB, its director, Marc Noy, professor of Mathematics at the UPC, collected the award.
Yesterday, the distinctions Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu, conferred by the Spanish Ministry for Economy and Competitiveness, were given to the centres awarded on the last call. The award ceremony was chaired by Carmen Vela, secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation.
On behalf of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB), the director, Lluís Garrido, and the scientific director, Josep M. Paredes, collected the award. Moreover, Josep Samitier, professor of Electronics from the UB, received the distinction Severo Ochoa, as the director of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). Finally, on behalf of the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath), a centre affiliated with the UB, its director, Marc Noy, professor of Mathematics at the UPC, collected the award.
The ICCUB, a research institute of the UB, has received the distinction María de Maeztu given by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness to six centres. The award honours excellence at research centres located at universities. The BGSMath, a centre fostered by the Faculty of Mathematics of the UB by means of its Institute of Mathematics, has also received the award.
Moreover, the Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation has granted two new accreditations with the programme Centres of Excellence Severo Ochoa. One of these accreditations has been given to the IBEC, a centre located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB). The Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona (IBMB), a centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located at the PCB, has also received the distinction María de Maeztu.
Centres awarded with the distinction María de Maeztu will receive 500,000 euros per year during a four-year period. Centres do not have own legal status and their research staff is composed by members of the teaching and research staff of a university school, department or institute. Centre evaluation was performed by 115 prestigious international researchers.
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