CFI-Barcelona

CFI-Barcelona is the Centre for Funding & Innovation at La Salle Campus Barcelona, founding member of the Universitat Ramon Llull, serving as your gateway to global partnerships where research meets real-world impact. As a flagship initiative, CFI-Barcelona champions sustainability through collaborative research, enhancing capabilities and identifying funding opportunities for researchers, startups, and industry innovators. Rooted in La Salle-URL’s values of innovation, collaboration, and societal transformation, our mission is to bridge cutting-edge research with transformative solutions that address challenges and shape a resilient future. Acting as a catalyst for research, innovation, and internationalisation, CFI-Barcelona builds bridges among academia, industry, and government. Our approach integrates global funding insights, strategic foresight, and capacity-building initiatives that empower La Salle-URL’s diverse research community. Under the visionary leadership of Dr. Rafael Popper and Dr. Rosa Maria Alsina Pagès, we identify international funding opportunities, forge transdisciplinary networks, and craft high-impact proposals—empowering stakeholders to navigate the global innovation ecosystem through strategic partnerships and innovation training. La Salle-URL is part of the International Association of La Salle Universities (IALU), one of the world’s largest university networks. In this context, La Salle URL’s CFI-Barcelona leverages an international framework to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing. This alliance enhances our capacity to co-create solutions in areas such as smart cities, AI integration, resilient systems, and sustainability, ensuring that our work advances academic inquiry while delivering measurable benefits. Whether you are a researcher, entrepreneur, or policymaker, join us in building a future where transformative partnerships drive progress and create lasting value for communities worldwide.