Azti-Tecnalia

Internacional Forums & Partnerships

The value of collaboration

The transfer of knowledge is the key to advances in scientific research. AZTI-Tecnalia actively participates in diverse national and international forums:

	ICES - CIEM (International Congress for the Exploration of Seas)		NAFO (North Atlantic Fishery Organization)
	ICCAT (International Congress for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna)		IOTC (Indian Ocean Tuna Commission)
	EUROCOAST (European Coastal Association For Science And Technology)		GLOBEC (Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics)
	JACUMAR (Marine Culture Advising Board)		WEFTA (West European Fish Technologists Association)
	Basque Contact Point - FOOD (Specialist Group and Trawling Managerial Groups)		Basque Culinary Center

AZTI-Tecnalia is member of:

	ADISUR (Association pour le Développement des Industries du Surimi)		Foro Marítimo Vasco
	Fundación Oceanográfica de Gipuzkoa		INAVE (Spanish Navigation Institute)
	ELIKA (Basque Foundation for Agro-food Safety)		SAFE (European Association for Food Safety)
	EUCHIS (European Chitin Society)		INNOBASQUE (Basque Innovation Agency)

Networks and other Entities

Food Research

AEC (Spanish Association for Quality)

AENOR (Spanish Association for Standardization and Certification)

ANETA (Red Tecnoambiental Agroalimentaria)

Food for Life - WG Food Safety (European Technology Platform)

EATP (European Aquaculture Technology Platform)

IBERNAM (Iberian Nanotechnology and Micro system Network)

RETSA (Thematic Network for Food Safety in the Pyrenees Area)

SICURA (Spanish Food Safety Network, coordinating the "Technological Innovation and Management group")

· Scientific Technical Committees coordinated by AZTI-Tecnalia’s Food Research Unit:

National coordinator of the Food Industry Research interface on the ERA-SME project on Functional Food (coordinated at a state level by CDTI)

· Technical Secretary for Associations:

AEAZN (Spanish Association for the self control of Juices and Nectars, held responsible by the Technical Secretary)

Marine Research

AQUA-TNET (Thematic Network in the field of Aquaculture, Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management - WG “Needs of Research”)

ACLIMA (Association of Environmental Industries Clusters of the Basque Country)

CICYT (Morpho-Hydrodynamic Marine Work Area from the CICYT, Interdepartmental Science and Technology Congress)

EIA (Spanish Environmental Impact Association)

COAST y ECOSTAT Work groups

HISPACOSTA (Spanish Multidisciplinary Network regarding coastal issues)

SEDNET

STECF (Standing Committee on Research and Statistics)

RACs Observers,(Regional Advisory Council):
· RAC foreign waters
· RAC NW waters
· RAC Deep sea
· RAC SW waters

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Personnel and Organization

A multidisciplinary specialist team

The people who make up AZTI-Tecnalia are its biggest asset to attain the goals we have set for ourselves. AZTI-Tecnalia believes in its people and in the growth of their personnel as a reflection of their strength: in 2002, AZTI-Tecnalia consisted of an average staff of 111 people; in 2010 they boast a total of more than 220 workers.

The AZTI-Tecnalia workforce is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of professionals and is organised into two research units: Marine Research and Food Research, assisted by the Conformity evaluation (Analysis and Tests) and the sampling Area.

The organization’s corporate section is comprised of: General Management, Administrative and Financial Management, Personal Development Management, Marketing Management, Communications and Commerce, and Quality Control.

The AZTI Foundation Patronage is formed by representatives of the fishing industry’s businesses and institutions, marine food and environmental representatives and the Basque Government.

AZTI-Tecnalia
ANABAC (Asociación Nacional de Armadores de Buques Atuneros Congeladores)
CAFINSA
CONSERVAS GARAVILLA
CÁRNICAS MIROTZ
EROSKI S.COOP.
FCC AMBITO S.A.
Federación Cofradías Pescadores Bizkaia
GOBIERNO VASCO
HIDRONOR S.A.
IPARLAT S.A.
SALICA S.A

Tecnalia

TECNALIA is a Technological Corporation formed by AZTI, European Software Institute (ESI), Inasmet, Labein, Robotiker, Neiker, Fatronik and Cidemco as an adhered centre, whose aim is to contribute to the social and economic development by means of the promotion of Technological Innovation through Research development.

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