[1] Its first scientific director was Mª Carmen Gallastegui, a professor of economics at the University of the Basque Country.

All those researchers are expected to develop their work assigned to centers in the Basque science and technology network.

Ikerbasque collaborates with diverse scientific institutions of the Basque Country (universities, BERCs, CICs, Technological Centers, Biosanitary Research Institutes) with initiatives that seek a global improvement of Basque science.

This includes a battery of socio-economic and bibliometric indicators, both at the regional and state or international levels, which allows a characterization of the Basque scientific community and its quantitative and qualitative comparison with those of other countries.

The Service Centre of the Euraxess network in the Basque Country is managed by Ikerbasque and it offers personalized assistance to the highly qualified professionals (researcher, technologist, etc.)