Research has become something transversal, no longer exclusive to research centers. Public-private collaboration and, more specifically, the so-called triple helix - government, business and research centers - is allowing new developments to move forward in a more agile and society-focused way.
The cross-border PPI4MED project is a flagship of this premise. In it, the research centers present their technological offer for implementation through innovative public procurement by the public authorities. This is done in the living labs that have been organized in the participating countries (Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Jordan) and which have brought together all the public and private innovation agents.
Within this framework, CSIC, leader of the project, has presented more than 30 technological offers aimed at solving problems in the fields of energy, water, biodiversity, circular economy or infrastructures and historical heritage.
The CSIC's technological offer can be used to boost energy efficiency, identify heavy materials in water and improve their quality, halt the deterioration of emblematic buildings and recover plastic waste.
This technological offer is only a representation of all the solutions and proposals that CSIC has and that endorse it as the reference entity in Spain in all fields of basic research.