Establishment of
Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence
EU ageing population creates demand for more attention in healthcare and puts high burden on society in terms of costs and loss of quality of life.
Significant part of clinical cases is connected with musculoskeletal disabilities, where implants based on new technologies offer opportunities for lower costs, due to lower amount or revision operations, lower cost of implants and higher performance.
Scientifically, research into biomaterials is done through new techniques, development of new biocompatible materials, additive manufacturing, drug and biomolecule delivery, etc., where research excellence is spread between different organisations specialized in different steps of implant development, leading to lack of collaboration, coordination, fragmentation of funding, and duplication of research projects and infrastructure.
By June 2025, BBCE has published 138 scientific papers and secured €13.62 million in competitive research funding. Click here to find out our research directions!
Welcome to our Headquarters!
The new BBCE building is complete, offering state-of-the-art labs and infrastructure for advanced research — here’s a glimpse of the journey:
The opening of the BBCE headquarters:
Virtual tour of the facilities:
BBCE project´s main objective is to establish a joint Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence for advanced biomaterials development based on the long-term strategic cooperation between AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland (ARI) and Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (FAU) on the one hand and RTU RBIDC, LIOS, RSU and RSU IS on the other hand.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 857287