Barcelona

We value and seek to build on the existing vocation for research in the area. We’re renewing the park by improving greenery and infrastructures and the way the surroundings fit together. We’re renovating various buildings in the park and adapting them for scientific dissemination. We’re also adding more spaces to foster new science and culture projects on top of existing ones. We are creating a first level ecosystem by expanding existing facilities and creating new ones:

• We are providing the UPF campus with 3 new buildings under construction at the Antic Mercat del Peix (Old Fish Market): BIST (Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology), IBE-CSIC (Institute of Evolutionary Biology-Spanish National Research Council) and UPF (Pompeu Fabra University).
• We are creating a new CSIC bioscience hub in the old Parc Mòbil building.
• We are creating the Central Library of Barcelona next to Estació de França.
• We are consolidating a heritage and science hub with facilities of high heritage and scientific value comprised of the Centre Martorell d'Exposicions (new MCNB), the Castle of the Three Dragons, the Hivernacle and the Umbracle.
• We are promoting and strengthening scientific activity at the Zoo, in the fields of biodiversity conservation, wildlife management and animal welfare.

We are promoting scientific knowledge and research in areas such as precision medicine, biodiversity and evolutionary biology, planetary welfare, molecular biology, biomedicine, the diversity and evolution of the natural world, animal welfare and indigenous wildlife management.

Some projects are already underway, others will start soon. All have the consensus to move forward with the forecast that in 8-10 years the whole of the Ciutadella del Coneixement will be a reality of international dimensions that will bring together some 1600 researchers.

La Ciutadella Knowledge Hub is a project led by Barcelona City Council in collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Ministries of Science and Universities, the Pompeu Fabra University, The Autonomous University of Barcelona, The University of Barcelona, the Spanish National Research Council, the Pasqual Maragall Foundation and the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology.