Biocat celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Auditori de Barcelona with the collaboration of Catalonia.health. The foundation’s managing director, Robert Fabregat, highlighted the association’s role as an engine of the BioRegion over these two decades.

The first session of Catalonia.health’s new series brought a group of health-sector companies to Eurecat’s headquarters in Cerdanyola del Vallès, to get a close look at the technological infrastructure already within their reach.

The Parliament of Catalonia has approved, with no votes against, a motion urging the Government to allocate €7 million in 2027 to support Catalan industrial clusters. The clusters are asking for the funding to be made available during the first half of 2027, so that the resources can be deployed swiftly.

On 22 October, an institutional delegation from Gyeongsangbuk-do, one of the leading regions in biotechnology and biomedicine in South Korea, visited Catalonia.health to learn about the Catalan health ecosystem and explore avenues for collaboration in research and technological cooperation.

On 21 October, the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) celebrated its 20th anniversary with an institutional event at the Auditorium of the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. The managing director of Catalonia.health, Laura Iglesias, attended the celebration.

On 21 October, Catalonia.health took part in the 5th session of the Community of R&D&I Knowledge Transfer Networks, an institutional event organised by the Department of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia. Our managing director, Laura Iglesias, and our project coordinator, Roser Alba, attended alongside the other clusters accredited by ACCIÓ and the R&D&I networks.

Maastricht / Heerlen, October 2026. A Catalonia.health delegation has taken part in the fourth study visit of the European project RISEMED4EU, held in Maastricht and Heerlen, in the Province of Limburg (Netherlands).

Sysmex Spain, a leading company specialising in healthcare technology and in vitro diagnostics, announces the move of its Spanish headquarters to a new space at SID Barcelona, the private science and innovation ecosystem in the city’s metropolitan area. SID Barcelona is a Catalonia.health member. Until now, Sysmex was based in the Barcelona-area town of Sant Just Desvern.

Catalonia.health took part on 2 October in the conference “European Health Data Space in Catalonia”, represented by Roser Alba, project coordinator, and Jordi Barretina, board member. The event presented the Health Data Access Body for Secondary Use (ODAS), which AQuAS will manage following its designation by the Government.

Bilbao hosted the 13th edition of BioSpain this week, Spain's leading biotech gathering and a key European reference in life sciences.