IDIAPJGol

What IDIAPJGol does

IDIAPJGol (Fundació Institut Universitari per a la recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina) is a non-profit research foundation established in 1996 by the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), affiliated with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) since 2010, and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. It functions as the reference institute for primary care research in Catalonia, serving family physicians, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, and other primary care professionals across the region through a network of seven territorial Research Support Units (USRs) spanning Girona, Lleida, Tarragona-Reus, Barcelona, Catalunya Central, and Metropolitana Nord.

The institute's core technology assets are research-infrastructure platforms rather than commercial products. The SIDIAP (Sistema d'Informació per al Desenvolupament de la Investigació en Atenció Primària) database holds anonymized primary care clinical records covering over 80% of Catalonia's population, recently transformed to the OMOP common data model for international interoperability. Supporting platforms include AGICAP for research project management, the UEM Clinical Trials Unit, the XEST biostatistics platform, the Real World Lab for observational research, and digital questionnaire platforms. The institute supports 43 active research groups and 501 ongoing projects, producing a consistent high volume of PubMed-indexed publications (56 in June 2026 alone).

The business model is overwhelmingly publicly funded. Revenue (not publicly disclosed) flows primarily from competitive public grants — ICS/IDIAP joint calls (~€14,000 per project), ISCIII national grants, EU structural funds (Next Generation EU, ERDF, ESF), the Departament de Salut, the Departament de Recerca i Universitats, and provincial councils such as the Diputació de Lleida. Grant instruments span the researcher career continuum (pre-doctorate through senior intensification, with grants up to €10,000 plus multi-year protected research time). A secondary, minor revenue stream comes from training courses and jornada registrations sold through an online payment gateway. The institute holds ISO 9001:2015 certification (ER-0821) and serves as the official CEIm (Research Ethics Committee) for primary care research in Catalonia.

Name

IDIAPJGol

Legal name

Fundació Institut Universitari per a la recerca a l'Atenció Primària de Salut Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol)

Website

https://idiapjgol.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

IDIAPJGol is a Barcelona-based non-profit research foundation that operates the reference primary care research infrastructure for Catalonia, including the SIDIAP database covering over 80% of the regional population. It funds, supports, and coordinates research for 1,944 affiliated primary care professionals across 43 research groups, funded primarily by public grants from Catalan, Spanish, and EU institutions.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Primary Care Research Services

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

akta.pro primary industry

Research Administration & Grants Management Support (Pre/Post-Award, Compliance) (EDAEALAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Clinical Trial Monitoring Support (On-site/Remote) (HLAGACAG), Survey, Panel & Fieldwork Services (BPAHALAJ)

Keywords

• Primary care research
• Clinical research services
• Real world data analytics
• Research grant funding
• Biostatistics consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Research Grants and Subsidies: IDIAPJGol operates primarily as a publicly funded research foundation. The majority of its funding comes from competitive public grants and subsidies, including calls from the Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), the Departament de Salut, the Departament de Recerca i Universitats of Catalonia, European funds (Next Generation EU, ERDF, ESF), ISCIII, and provincial councils such as the Diputació de Lleida. These grants fund specific research projects, doctoral programs, researcher intensification positions, and research stays.
2. Training and Conference Services: IDIAPJGol sells training courses and conference/jornada registrations through a payment gateway on its website. Course and event fees constitute a minor revenue stream. No physical products are shipped; services are rendered digitally.
3. Research Services to Healthcare System: The institute provides research services (statistical support, data access, clinical trial coordination, methodology support) to primary care professionals and institutions within the Catalan health system, primarily as part of its public mandate rather than as a commercial revenue stream.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

IDIAPJGol is a non-profit university research foundation that provides primary care research infrastructure across Catalonia, including the SIDIAP population-scale clinical database, the AGICAP research management platform, a Clinical Trials Unit (UEM), biostatistical and methodological support, real-world evidence services, and competitive research grants. It serves 1,944 affiliated researchers through seven territorial research support units (USRs) and operates the official ethics committee (CEIm) for primary care research in Catalonia.

Product overview

IDIAPJGol is a university research institute focused on primary healthcare research in Catalonia. The organization operates as a platform-based research infrastructure offering multiple interconnected services: the SIDIAP database for real-world health data research, AGICAP for research project management, and a Clinical Trials Unit (UEM) for interventional studies. Additional services include the Real World Lab for observational research, questionnaire platforms, and scientific tools supporting the entire research lifecycle from protocol development to publication.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SIDIAP Database An anonymized primary care clinical database (Sistema d'Informació per al Desenvolupament de la Investigació en Atenció Primària) used for epidemiological and health services research. It is available to affiliated IDIAPJGol researchers for observational studies, and has been transformed to the OMOP common data model for international research interoperability.
• AGICAP Research Management Platform AGICAP is a research management and administration platform used by IDIAPJGol researchers and project managers to coordinate research activities, documentation, and project tracking across the institute's portfolio of primary care studies.
• UEM — Clinical Trials Unit The UEM (Unitat d'Assajos Clínics) provides infrastructure and operational support for conducting clinical trials and interventional studies in primary care settings. It is available to researchers, sponsors, and institutions conducting primary care-based clinical research in Catalonia.
• Real World Lab The Real World Lab is an observational research service that leverages real-world health data from primary care settings to support real-world evidence studies. It is available to affiliated researchers conducting health services and epidemiological research.
• Questionnaire Platforms Questionnaire Platforms provide digital infrastructure for designing, deploying, and collecting survey and questionnaire data in support of qualitative and quantitative research studies. They are available to IDIAPJGol-affiliated researchers conducting primary care research.
• Research Grants and Funding Programs Financial support programs for primary care research, including project grants, researcher intensification grants (releasing up to 50-100% of working day for 2-4 years), doctoral scholarships (€9,015 or 25% intensification), the Barbara Starfield Grant (€10,000), and international research stay grants (1-24 months with transport and monthly allowance). Available to primary care professionals and researchers across Catalonia.
• Biostatistics and Methodology Consulting (XEST) Biostatistics and data analysis consulting services coordinated through IDIAPJGol's XEST platform, providing study design advice, statistical analysis, and data management to affiliated research groups. Available to primary care researchers through the territorial USRs.
• Training Courses and Jornades IDIAP Conferences A catalog of continuing education courses for primary care professionals and the annual Jornades IDIAP scientific conferences, sold via an online payment gateway on the institute's website. Course and event fees constitute a revenue stream supporting the institute's mission.
• CEIm Research Ethics Committee Services The CEIm (Comitè d'Ètica d'Investigació amb medicaments) is the official research ethics committee for primary care research in Catalonia, providing protocol review, documentation submission processes, and committee meeting scheduling for researchers and institutions submitting primary care studies.

Quantifiable outcome

• 56 scientific articles published in June 2026 alone (PubMed-indexed); 37 in March 2025; 31 in April 2025 — demonstrating consistent, high-volume research output
• +4 more outcomes

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Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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AI capability5 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• CareCityLab (Mataró)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 28 May 2024IDIAPJGol signed a collaboration agreement on May 28, 2024, to integrate into CareCityLab — a center for care and research in fragility and dependence in Mataró. The institute joined the entity's governing board alongside other health, innovation, and knowledge institutions.
• Institut Català de la Salut (ICS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerICS is the primary public health provider in Catalonia and the founding institutional partner of IDIAPJGol. The institute was created by ICS in 1996 to promote and manage research in primary care. ICS and IDIAPJGol co-publish annual research grant calls (Ajuts ICS/IDIAP) and share staff and infrastructure within the Catalan primary care system.
• Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de CatalunyacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Catalan Department of Health is the governing health authority and co-signed the 2006 agreement that formalized the institute's role in Catalonia's primary care research ecosystem. It provides institutional legitimacy and co-funding for research activities.
• Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2010, IDIAPJGol has been affiliated with UAB as a University Research Institute in Primary Care (Institut Universitari de Recerca en Atenció Primària), lending academic credibility and enabling joint supervision of doctoral theses and research collaborations.
• Purina ( Nestlé Purina)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIDIAPJGol partnered with Purina to jointly promote research in Animal-Assisted Interventions in primary care, reflecting an interdisciplinary collaboration to explore novel therapeutic approaches within the primary care setting.
• FLASH Consortium (EU)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerIDIAPJGol's USR Catalunya Central participates as a clinical partner in the FLASH European consortium, which aims to prepare health systems to face sanitary threats and secure their financing. The consortium held its annual meeting in Catania.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• IDIVAL (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Valdecilla): IDIVAL is a Spanish regional health research institute in Cantabria, structurally similar to IDIAPJGol as an accredited health research institute linked to a public health system. Both operate under Spain's ISCIII framework with comparable research support and grant administration functions.
• Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD): CPRD is the UK MHRA-governed primary care research database covering millions of patients, directly comparable to SIDIAP in function and use cases. Both serve as core real-world data infrastructure for epidemiological and clinical research.
• Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research): Nivel is the leading primary care research institute in the Netherlands, operating a national primary care database (Nivel-PCD) comparable to SIDIAP. Both organizations serve as backbone research infrastructure for national primary care systems with similar data assets.
• IIS La Fe (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria La Fe): IIS La Fe is a Spanish regional health research institute with parallel structure to IDIAPJGol - linked to a public hospital system, conducting translational research, and receiving ISCIII accreditation. Both operate research platforms and grant programs.
• FISABIO (Fundación para el Fomento de la Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica): FISABIO is a Valencia-region health research foundation comparable in scope and mission to IDIAPJGol. Both manage public research grants, operate population health databases, and provide methodological support to regional health systems.
• VHIR (Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca): VHIR is a leading Catalan biomedical research institute affiliated with the public hospital Vall d'Hebron. While focused on hospital-based rather than primary care research, it shares the same Catalan public health system ecosystem and competes for similar researchers and grants.
• QResearch: QResearch is a UK primary care research database derived from anonymized EMIS health records, directly comparable to SIDIAP in function. Both support large-scale epidemiological studies and are widely used in international real-world evidence research.

Regional players

• Norwegian Institute of Public Health (FHI): FHI is Norway's national public health research institute, comparable in primary care and population health research scope. While operating in a different country, it provides benchmarking on how similar Nordic public health research institutes operate at scale.

Emerging players

• ISGlobal (Barcelona Institute for Global Health): ISGlobal is a Barcelona-based research institute focused on global health, overlapping with IDIAPJGol in infectious disease and population health research. While broader in scope, both compete for Catalan and EU health research funding and operate within the same regional ecosystem.

Others

• AQuAS (Agency for Health Quality and Assessment of Catalonia): AQuAS is the Catalan government agency for health quality assessment, operating as a complementary research and evaluation body within the same Catalan public health ecosystem. Both collaborate on health services research and population health analysis.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/IDIAP
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Profiles11 records

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