21st April 2025: International Day of Creativity and Innovation

Published by ICSEB at 21 April, 2025

On this international day, we celebrate creativity as a human quality and innovation concerning the plans that allow its application.

At Institut Chiari & Syringomyelia & Scoliosis of Barcelona (ICSEB), we value these aspects so much that in 2013, Dr. M. B. Royo Salvador founded the Department of Research + Development + Innovation (R+D+i) (Fig. 1), which is precisely dedicated to finding discoveries and new solutions in the field of neurosurgery and medicine, always in the interest of our patients. Since the 2018-19 academic year, we have also collaborated with the University of Barcelona (UB) through an Educational Cooperation Agreement for External Academic Internships, with students from the Faculty of Biology, which brings the participation of several newly graduated researchers into our research lines and the daily activities of our scientific work (Fig. 2).

Thus, at ICSEB, the cooperation among medical professionals, biologists, biotechnologists and the IT team, helps us develop increasingly innovative tools for data collection, case management, analysis, and interpretation of our key areas of study. Our scientific perspective and expertise in everything related to Filum Disease and Neuro-cranio-vertebral Syndrome, form the foundation of our research and fuel all our innovation and study lines.  (Fig. 3).

On the other hand, this stay at our centre, from the perspective of extracurricular university internships, can later facilitate their integration into the job market, adding a unique and highly specialised experience to their CV.

Finally, it is always an honour for our team to work with inspired and inventive young people who can contribute original ideas to the projects and initiatives we constantly carry out.

For this reason, we thank them today for their valuable collaboration with our work on this particularly special day.

Fig. 1 ICSEB R+D+i Department in a work meeting, March 2025.

Fig. 2 The interns of ICSEB R+D+i Department, March 2025.

Fig.3 The researchers of ICSEB R+D+i Department, 2024-25. From right to left: Dr. M. Fiallos, A. Avellaneda, Dr. M. Royo, Y. Martín, Dr. H. Salca.