CIC microGUNE is a Cooperative Research Centre created with the aim of becoming a new model of scientific/technological alliance for carrying out excellent research, integrating the capacities of different agents in the Basque Science, Technology and Innovation Network in the strategic field of microtechnologies, to contribute to raising the competitiveness level of the Basque Country’s business sector while collaborating to achieve diversification towards emerging sectors through knowledge and technology transfer and generation.

microGUNE’s mission is to lead and coordinate microtechnology research in order to become an active promoter of the economic and social transformation of the Basque Country.

CIC microGUNE performs its research using the so-called “top down approach”, i.e. the small-scale reproduction of what has up to now been produced in actual size, developing regular structures of increasingly smaller sizes (miniaturisation) for this purpose ranging from micron scale to nanometric scale.

CIC microGUNE’s main general objectives are as follows:

• To strengthen the cooperation between the different agents in micro/nanotechnologies, optimising the scientific and technological capacity of the Basque Country
• To develop international-scale research focusing on the strategic area of micro/ nanotechnologies.
• Integration within the European Research Area (ERA).
• To promote technology transfer and convergence with other areas (biotechnology, ICTs, nanosciences) for the development of emerging industrial sectors on the basis of the convergence of these fields.