Galicia, Spain

FUNDACION CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION EN TECNOLOXIAS DA INFORMACION E AS COMUNICACIONS DE GALICIA

Applied research in information and communications technologies, transferred to the companies and administrations that use it.

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  • Applied ICT research
  • Technology transfer
  • Public-interest foundation

What the centre works on

Contract research on a stated problem

Research lines in data engineering, communication networks, signal processing and machine learning, scoped to a problem a company or an administration already has, with results documented so they can be reused.

Technology transfer

Taking a validated prototype out of the laboratory: licensing or joint exploitation, handover of code and documentation, and technical support while an engineering team moves it into production.

Collaborative R&D consortia

Participation as a research partner in regional, national and European calls alongside industry and university groups, including work package definition, technical coordination and reporting.

Software, platforms and digital tools

Building the instrument the research needs: data pipelines, simulation environments, instrumentation software and evaluation platforms, delivered with tests and deployment notes.

Independent technical assessment

Evaluation of architectures, models and protocols against reproducible test plans, so that a procurement or design decision rests on measurements rather than on vendor claims.

Publication, conferences and training

Scientific publication of results, participation in conferences, and specialised training for the technical staff who will maintain what was built.

Ways to work with the centre

The formats partners ask for by name. Scope and terms are written down before any work starts.

Most requested

Contract research project

A defined research question answered by the centre for a single partner, with the results handed over to that partner.

  • Scoping with your technical team
  • Research plan with milestones
  • Prototype and technical report
  • Exploitation rights agreed in writing
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Collaborative R&D consortium

The centre joins your consortium as research partner for a regional, national or European call.

  • Work package and budget definition
  • Technical coordination
  • Experimental validation
  • Deliverables and reporting
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Technology transfer and licensing

Moving an existing result of the centre into industrial use under a licence or joint exploitation agreement.

  • Maturity assessment of the technology
  • Licence or joint exploitation agreement
  • Code, data and documentation handover
  • Support during first deployment
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Platform and tool development

Engineering of the software a research or public service process needs in order to run at all.

  • Requirements and architecture
  • Implementation with a test suite
  • Deployment and operations notes
  • Handover to your maintenance team
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Specialised training and seminars

Technical sessions for engineering and administration staff, built around the stack they actually operate.

  • Programme designed with your team
  • Hands-on laboratory material
  • On site or at the centre
  • Material left with the participants
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Duration, deliverables, confidentiality and intellectual property terms are agreed per project in writing.

How a collaboration starts

  1. Enquiry

    You describe the problem, the constraint or the call you are preparing for. A rough description is enough at this stage.

  2. Technical scoping

    A conversation with the researchers in the relevant line, under confidentiality if you need it, to establish what is a research question and what is already solved.

  3. Proposal and agreement

    Written scope, milestones, deliverables and the terms covering confidentiality and exploitation of results, before any work begins.

  4. Execution and handover

    The work runs against the agreed milestones and ends with something your team holds: a prototype, a platform, a dataset, a report you can act on.

From partners we have worked with

★★★★★
They started by narrowing what we were asking. Half of it turned out to be engineering we could do ourselves; the research part came back as a working prototype with a report our own engineers could read.
Marta, innovation manager at a manufacturing firm
★★★★★
The evaluation was done against a test plan we agreed in advance, so the conclusions were defensible internally. That mattered more to us than the recommendation itself.
Xoán, head of digital services at a public body
★★★★☆
Solid partner inside a consortium. Work packages were defined clearly and the deliverables arrived in the form the call required, which is rarer than it should be.
Beatriz, university research group coordinator

Send an enquiry

Tell us what you are trying to solve, or which call you are preparing for, and we will arrange a scoping conversation.

  • Your message reaches the technology transfer team, not a sales queue.
  • We usually reply with technical questions before we reply with a proposal.
  • The first conversation commits you to nothing, and can be held under confidentiality.

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