Presentation given by Pere Oliver-Reus from the Spanish National Oceanographic Institute in the framework of the Emergence Forum Barcelona Biocat organized the Barcelona Emergence Forum (April 10-11th, 2014, Congress Palace, Montjuïc) supported by the TRANSBIO SUDOE, a translational cooperation project dedicated to innovation in life sciences in South-West Europe. The Barcelona Emergence Forum contributed to bringing together Academics, Companies, Investment Entities, Technology Platforms and Technology Transfer Offices from Spain, France and Portugal to set up collaborative projects on Human Health & Agro-food Innovation. More information at: http://www.b2match.eu/emergenceforum2014

1. http://www.ieo.es/
Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO)
Marine research and transference of
knowledge
Pere Oliver
Senior Scientist
R+D Advisor
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2. Key figures
 Annual budget close to 80 million euros
 720 workers, 250 Scientist, 40 research groups
 150 research projects, 100 reports of scientific advice
and up to 65 surveys (around 1500 days at sea) a year
 150 meetings of international organizations a year
 200 scientific articles a year (WoS) with 619 institutions
of 60 other countries and 154 Spanish institutions.
 50% of them ranked in the first quartile of journals
 8 Research vessels, 3 of 1000 GRT, 5 of 30-200 GRT,
other small vessels, from 5 to 10 m in length and a
Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) able to dive
to depths down to 2000 meters
IEO was created in 1914 and has the headquarters in Madrid,
8 Oceanographic Centers, 4 marine culture plants, and
13 tide-recording stations distributed along the Spanish coastline.
Barcelona Emergence Forum
Agrofood Innovation – 10 April, 2014

3. Marine R+D
Spanish law 14/2011 Science, technology and Innovation
Horizon 2020 JPI Oceans healthy and productive seas and oceans
Transference of knowledge Marine sustainability
Costal management
Sustainable fisheries
Law 3/2001 marine fisheries; Law 6/2001 environment impacts
Law 23/1984 mariculture; RD 2182/2004 CEPRECO
EC Directive 2008/56/EC European Parliament and Council
establishing a framework in the field of marine environmental
policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive)
Transposed in Spain as Law 41/2010 ”protección del medio marino”
Scientific assessment for policy makers
Services
Data Bases
Council Regulation (EC) ; Commission Regulation 1543/2000
and EC 1639/2001 on Programmers for the collection of data in the
fisheries sector
Marine technology
Fisheries
management
Operational
oceanography
Acquaculture Fisheries
technologies
Marine
technologies Barcelona Emergence Forum
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Ecosystem Functioning and Processes, Climate Change, The Deep-Sea Frontier, Marine
Marine Bio-Resources: Fisheries, and Aquaculture, Management Tools Renewable Energy,

4. Barcelona Emergence Forum
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SUMARIZING
 The IEO through its research work contributes to
knowledge of the oceans and their resources working in
collaboration with public or private partner organizations.
 IEO also transfers knowledge through its expert advice
to Decision Makers with special attention to questions
related with human and climate change impact
on marine ecosystems.
 IEO represents the Spanish Government before
international oceanographic organizations and
commissions.
 IEO operates tools for observation, experimentation and
monitoring, manage oceanographic databases and their
research fleet and other facilities. These facilities are
available to the scientific communities, as well as within
private or public research partnerships.

5. Barcelona Emergence Forum
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Thanks for your attention
IEO works in network, mainly on large international programmes, with the
scientific community, but also with private partners and is working to
increase these collaborative activities.