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programme lasting between 1 and 3 months and maximum of 3000 EUR/group and year . However, after analysing the level of use of funding in the 2011-2014 period, with a mean funding level per year of about 20,000 EUR, it is advisable to update said limits and to allow groups to justifiably request funding for internships exceeding the conditions indicated above .
In addition, the availability of funding would allow providing for other items in the CIBEROBN strategic Training Programme . In this context, and considering budgetary availability and the strategic interest in maintaining funding for the mobility programme, an objective that is considered for implemention next year is the development of the CIBEROBN higher training activity programme . Development of this programme has already begun through at least one annual international scientific meeting, which was held in El Escorial 20 and 22 November 2014, with the participation of national speakers (belonging to CIBEROBN, other CIBER areas and areas not linked to the CIBER) and international speakers (top level) . Along the same line, funding, after a justified request, is considered being given to conduct post-graduate training activities in areas that are relevant to biomedical research (training to work with experimental animals, training to handle non-encapsulated radioactive sources, etc .) .
In addition, it should be pointed out that in relation to training, the annual training courses were maintained in 2014 (held at the beginning of December in the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Universidad de Barcelona) for researchers, nurses and dieticians participating in the PrediMed/PrediMed Plus studies, with a limit consistent with the mean number of attendees at the same course held in previous years (between 175 and 200 people each year) .
Likewise, and as a training element of the utmost importance, a total of 62 PhD Dissertations (3 of which were international) were defended in 2014 . This is a very significant increase with respect to previous years, doubling the number of dissertations defended in 2011 .
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