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Overview
Lobbying Costs
75,000€
Financial year: Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5 Fte (20)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
0
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Fundación AZTI - AZTI Fundazioa (AZTI)
EU Transparency Register
774349738259-47 First registered on 22 May 2020
Goals / Remit
AZTI (www.azti.es) is a non-profit private foundation committed to generate wealth and value for current and future society. Is member of Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), an alliance formed by 4 collaborative research centers and 12 technology centers with the aim of developing advanced technological solutions for the Basque companies.
We work to contribute to the great challenges facing humanity. Our objectives and fields of application are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) adopted by the UN: climate action (SDG 13), life bellow water (SDG 14), good health and well-being (SDG 3), responsible consumption and production (SDG 12) and zero hunger (SDG 2).
Our research activity is focused on two main areas: marine rersearch and food reserach.
AZTI has opted for avant-garde scientific and technological infrastructures that give an effective response to market needs. We have three headquarters, located in the north of Spain in Bizkaia (Sukarrieta and Derio) and Gipuzkoa (Pasaia).
AZTI' s staff is the main resource to reach the proposed achievements: 249 professionals among whom 57% are women and 58% doctors.
With more than 30 years of experience, the organisation has developed an important network of collaborating centers both at national and international level, promoting more than 4.000 projects with industries and public institutions, including 312 projects running at present, reaching a turnover in 2019 of 20 M€.
As research and innovation center AZTI’s main activity is focused on its Applied Research projects, New products and services, Scientific advice and Business revitalization and addressed to private companies, scientific organizations, professional associations as well as local, national and international administrations.Main EU files targeted
AZTI is active and follows all these initiatives, strategies and policies that are related to our areas of interest. As such, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Common Agricultura Policy, the 2030 European Food Strategy, the European Circular Bioeconomy, the European Green Deal, the Blue/Green Economy, the European Climate Strategy etc are within our areas of interest.
Address
Head Office
Txatxarramendi ugartea, z/g
Sukarrieta 48395
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People
Total lobbyists declared
20
Employment time Lobbyists 25% 20 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
More than 20 scientists participate im different scientific research committees and groups as indicated above, but they devolte less than the 25% of their time.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
IV - Think tanks, research and academic institutions
Subcategory
Think tanks and research institutions
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Networking
Affiliation
None declared
Member organisations
Bittor Oroz Izagirre. Gobierno Vasco
Iñaki Latxaga Bengoetxea. SALICA, S.A.
Peli Manterola Arteta. Gobierno Vasco
Mikel Larrea Azpeitia. EROSKI, S. COOP.
Alberto José Fernandez Gonzalez, Gobierno Vasco
José Angel Hormaetxea Kapanaga. Trabajadores AZTI
Simone Legnani. Conservas GARAVILLA
Aurelio Bilbao Barandica. Federación de Cofradías de Pescadores de Bizkaia
Leandro Azkue Múgica. Gobierno Vasco
Ignacio Díaz de Olarte Barea. FCC Ambito, S.A.
José Joaquín Aldalur Aizpuru. SERBITZU ELKARTEA, S.L.
José Luis Orbaiz. IPARLAT, S.A.
Mª Luz Ruiz Melendo. Gobierno Vasco
Kepa Echevarria Elizondo ANABAC
Ignacio José Muñoz Clavo, Angulas Aguinaga, S.A.U.
Alfonso Saenz de Cámara Barrón, UDAPA S.COOP
José Alberto Padró Llarch, Café Fortaleza
José Vicotrino Sodupe Zurbano, CARNICAS MIROTZ SL -
Financial Data
Closed financial year
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
75,000€
EU grant income for closed financial year
3,258,783 € (Source: European Public Programmes)
Other financial info
None declared
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
none
Groups (European Parliament)
None
Communication activities
AZTI participates in European projects belonging to different Programmes such as The European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020, EIT Food, PRIMA, LIFE Environment Programme, Interreg Cooperation Programme, different calls for proposals and projects from the DG Mare, DG Environment or EASME, the European Agency for Small and Medium Entreprises.
Other activities
3 scientists from AZTI are members of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF) of the European Commission.
AZTI scientific personnel participate or lead different scientific committees, the participation in the Scientific Committee of the European Environmental Agency, in the board of directors of the scientific association of economists in the field of natural resource economics and Environmental (AERNA), in the European Society of Sensory Sciences and in the European Association for Food Safety, in addition to occupying relevant positions in the Scientific Committees from Regional Environmental and Fisheries Management Bodies, especially in those that deal with the most important fisheries for Basque fleets (IATTC (1), ICCAT (5), ICES (64), IOTC (3), WCPFC (1)). An AZTI researcher is the president of the Economic Committee for Fisheries (AER) of the European Commission. In addition, research staff of AZTI acts in the European scientific coordination on behalf of the EU before ICCAT, IOTC, IATTC and WCPFC.
Meetings
Meetings
None declared