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The impulse you need to create value from your biomedical innovations
The "la Caixa" Foundation, one of the most important funders of health research in southern Europe, launched CaixaImpulse in 2015 to propel the transfer of research to society. CaixaImpulse has been receiving the support of EIT Health since 2017.
Discover our programmes

CAIXAIMPULSE VALIDATE

Test and validate your innovation

CaixaImpulse Validate is an acceleration programme that provides support to early stage biomedical research projects to help them validate their asset and define their valorisation plan.

TRL 1-4
Protected or protectable asset
Valorisation plan
Commercialisation feasibility

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APPLICATION PERIOD

NEXT CALL OPENS IN 2021

CAIXAIMPULSE CONSOLIDATE

Bring your innovation to the market

CaixaImpulse Consolidate supports highly innovative solutions to achieve investment readiness and move closer to commercialisation stages.

TRL 4+
Protected assets
Business/Implementation Plan
Investor attraction and market access

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APPLICATION PERIOD

DATES FOR THE NEXT CALL WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Driving the transformation of scientific knowledge into value for society

CaixaImpulse Support Scheme

Check the stage of your project and identify the programme that best suits your asset

Discover CaixaImpulse projects

AntiBioCoat

Validate- 18

''For us, CaixaImpulse was really key to enter a new ecosystem that helps us transfer science and technology to the market.''

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FuGe Therapeutics

Validate- 18

''CaixaImpulse has helped us to take a step further, to make the jump from the lab to the clinical possibility of this treatment.''

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Solid tumor therapy

Validate- 18

''CaixaImpulse provides specific training in the transfer of technology that is very useful for people like me who come from an academic and research background.''

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NATED

Validate- 18

''What I’d like to highlight the most about CaixaImpulse would be the support the project receives so that it can be transferred to society.''

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News and events

Programme Highlights

05 June 2020

New technologies for safer transplants

In honour of World Transplant Day, we spoke to the innovators behind two CaixaImpulse projects that will enable safer transplants.

Programme Highlights

19 May 2020

CaixaImpulse COVID-19 Express Call to bring six projects closer to society

Six projects have been selected to receive a total of €1.8 million in the CaixaImpulse COVID-19 Express Call to fast-track their progress towards the market and society.

Other News

17 April 2020

EIT Health fosters a community response to the pandemic

EIT Health, which supports CaixaImpulse, offers a number of online tools to bring its network together to respond to the pandemic.

Programme Highlights

18 March 2020

Meet the first cohort of CaixaImpulse Consolidate projects

These projects, which offer solutions to unmet biomedical needs, will each receive up to €300,000 to bring their asset to an investment-ready stage.