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ITACA Forward showcases its health research capabilities at BIOSPAIN 2026

The event brought together more than 1,900 attendees from around 900 organisations across 32 countries.

Mercedes Poveda represented ITACA-Forward at BIOSPAIN 2026, held in Bilbao under the theme ‘Bioinnovation that clicks’. The event brought together more than 1,900 attendees from around 900 organisations across 32 countries.

During the event, Poveda presented the technological developments, innovative solutions and collaboration opportunities offered by ITACA’s research groups working in health.

Meetings with companies, research centres and other stakeholders in the biotechnology and health ecosystem provided opportunities to establish new connections and explore how ITACA’s expertise and technologies could address their needs.

The «ITACA FORWARD» project is part of the Program for Valorization and Transfer of Research Results to Companies, specifically Line 2, Strengthening of Scientific Units for the Development of Technologies and Dissemination of Knowledge to Companies, and has a total eligible budget of €393,688.00, of which €354,319.20 are financed by IVACE+i Innovation and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) Program Comunitat Valenciana 2021-2027 (Project Reference: INNVA2/2025/17)

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