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In reference to rankings relating to innovation and technological impact, the citation of scientific publications of the centre in patent databases or directly in patents, it can be pointed out that CIBERES has improved its position in the Innovative Knowledge Rank from position 516 in 2011 to position 273 in 2014 and from position 619 to 289 in the Technological Impact Rank in the same period4 .
In summary and according to the Performance report on Spanish institutions in the Scimago Institutions Ranking (SIR) 2013, according to its excellence ratio CIBERES was Spanish scientific institution number 28 at the beginning of 2014 .
The research activity of the 37 CIBERES member groups was very significant in 2014 . It must be pointed out that all the groups participated in Corporate Research Programmes and participate in one or two of the (9) CIBERES strategic projects, so a significant portion of their activity is collaborative .
In addition to the 9 massive strategic projects, the groups have kept 260 research projects funded by both public and private entities active . In turn, the groups have participated in 105 clinical trials in 2014 .
Finally, a key result in scientific production and internationalisation of CIBERES in 2014 has been the conclusion of participation of the Centre in two European projects . As the coordinator, CIBERES has developed the European project Initial Training Network Pulmonary Imaging Network (P-NET), Ref: 264864, of FPVII-PEO-PLE-2010-ITN, funded by the European Union . Furthermore, as a partner CIBERES has participated in the project Commhere: Communication of European Health Research, Health 2011.4.1-1 .
Understanding the importance of increasing participation as a Centre in Horizon Programme 2020 projects, CIBERES together with two other CIBER subject areas (CIBERER and CIBERBBN) participated in and achieved 2014 funding for developing a project to promote the participation of its groups in international projects within the European Networks and Managers call for proposals . Therefore, and for three years (2015- 2017) a specific manager whose objective will be to promote research topics from the three subject areas involved, to seek partners and calls for proposals suitable for developing projects and starting up training activities intended for promoting internationalisation will be hired .
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