IK4 Alliance

We are a private and independent technological Alliance, a benchmark in the Basque System of Innovation as well as in the European technological context, made up of the following technology centres AZTERLAN, CEIT, CIDETEC, GAIKER, IDEKO, IKERLAN, LORTEK, TEKNIKER and VICOMTech.

Since our creation in 2005, we have become an Alliance of superlative technical centres, brought together with the objective of bringing value to society and of reaching a critical mass in tune with research which is applied to and aimed at the industrial framework, in the interests of contributing towards providing that framework with the tools which will allow it to increase its competitiveness.

Our Alliance seeks the generation, uptake and transfer of know-how concerning technology, in those technological disciplines which are most in demand in business and in society.

Our eight technological andscientific units bring together the entire R+D+i resources of the members: biotechnology, micro- and nano- technologies, environmental technology and recycling, energy, industrial management and production, mechatronics, materials and processes, and information and communications technologies.