Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol
Budget
€31,559,492
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
3
0.75 FTE
EU Grants
€242,886
Mission & Goals
The Institute for Health Science Research Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) is a public research centre in the Autonomous region of Catalonia in Northern Spain dedicated to increasing scientific knowledge and transferring it to improve the care and lives of patients. The institute is attached to one of the large teaching hospitals in the Barcelona area; the Germans Trias University Hospital (HUGTP), and is located on the biomedical campus that surrounds it, Campus Can Ruti. It is a CERCA centre; a member of the biocluster supported and supervised by the Autonomous Catalonian Government. It is also accredited as a Centre of Excellence by the Instituto Carlos III (Spanish Government) and in this capacity acts as an umbrella organization for scientific research on the campus, where it works closely with the other centres located there.
EU Legislative Interests
REGULATION (EU) No 536/2014 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 April 2014 on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use, and repealing Directive; Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law; RGPD 2016/679 (Data Protection) and Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021 on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance); European Convention on Human Rights, the Charter of the United Nations and, once it entered into force, the Council of Europe Convention on Bioethics; DECLARATION OF HELSINKI ETHICAL PRINCIPLES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH INVOLVING HUMAN SUBJECTS; ICH (International Conference of Harmonization Guideline); Directives 2010/84/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 2010 on pharmacovigilance and 2011/62/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011 (transposed by Spanish laws).
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
The Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) (https://www.germanstrias.org/en/about-us/) is a public research centre located in Badalona. Its main objective is to increase scientific knowledge in order to transform it into solutions to improve the health and medical care of patients and the community. The Institute is associated with one of the major university hospitals in the Barcelona area, the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital (https://www.hospitalgermanstrias.cat/web/guest), and is part of the Can Ruti biomedical Campus. IGTP is a CERCA Centre (https://cerca.cat/en/cerca-centers/) and is accredited as a centre of excellence (https://www.germanstrias.org/en/about-us/accredited-institute/) by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). As such, it is in charge of coordinating the management and scientific strategy of the Campus, working in close collaboration with the other centres. IGTP is also an active member of several national, European, and international organisations, including Red de Entidades Gestoras de Investigación Clínica (REGIC) (https://regic.org/), European Association of Research Managers and Administrators (EARMA) (https://earma.org/), the Catalan Association of Research Centres (ACER) (https://www.acer-catalunya.org/en/) and EATRIS – European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (https://eatris.eu/).
Organisation Members
The Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) (https://www.germanstrias.org/en/) is accredited as an Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (IIS) (https://www.germanstrias.org/en/about-us/accredited-institute/) – Health Research Institute – by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) since 2009. This recognition implies being responsible for coordinating research management and scientific strategy, working in close collaboration with the other centres that make up the IIS. In the case of the IIS coordinated by IGTP, the core institutions are Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital (https://www.hospitalgermanstrias.cat/web/guest) and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (https://www.uab.cat/web/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona-1345467954774.html), together with other entities from the Can Ruti Campus and its surroundings: IrsiCaixa (https://www.irsicaixa.es/en), Institut Català d'Oncologia (https://ico.gencat.cat/ca/inici), Banc de Sang i Teixits (https://www.bancsang.net/en/), Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute (https://www.carrerasresearch.org/en/), Institut Guttmann (https://www.guttmann.com/en), Fundació Institut Universitari per a la Recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (https://www.idiapjgol.org/index.php/en/), and Consorci Sanitari del Maresme (https://www.csdm.cat/ca/).
Additional Information
We do not receive direct subsidies from the EU to finance structural annual expenses, however, the Institute retains an overhead from EU subsidies to cover indirect costs. Other funds below the 10% of the total: Donations ( 1.339.479€), European Commission project funds (1.627.878€), Regional/Local Funding (1.087.738€), Other funding (789.294€)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.