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2. MANAGEMENT REPORT

▄▀ 2.1. General management
CIEN Foundation is a State wide public sector Foun- culated and made available to users outside the
dation supervised by the Carlos III Institute of Health Center.
under the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Com-
petitiveness. • Cerebral tissue sample request service
• Magnetic resonance Imaging
The CIEN Foundation is governed by its Statutes; by acquisition service
• Diagnostic consultation service
Law 50/2002, of December 26, on Foundations; by
Royal Decree 1337/2005, of November 11, which ap-
proves the Regulations of the Foundations of State ▄▀ 2.2. Management of financial and
competence; by the provisions of the National Bud- economic resources
get Law, in everything that refers to the Foundations
of the State Public Sector; by Royal Decree The CIEN Foundation is funded by specific subsidies
384/1996, of March 1, on the Registry of Foundations granted by the State and other local or institutional
of State Competence; by Law 49/2002, of Decem- public entities, as well as by income derived from Eu-
ber 23, on the Tax Status of Non-Profit Organizations ropean and national research projects, contracts for
and Tax Incentives to Patronage; and for the rest of the provision of services and patronage activities.
the legal provisions of an administrative, civil, mer-
cantile or labor nature that apply to it. The annual accounts are prepared from the ac-
counting records of the Entity, having applied the
The purpose of the CIEN Foundation is to promote legal provisions in force in accounting matters in
research in all fields of basic, clinical and epidemio- order to show the true image of the assets, the finan-
logical neurology, aspiring to become a Center of cial situation and the results of the CIEN Foundation.
national and international reference on research in
Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The Revenues
CIBERNED-CIEN Foundation consortium is the only
Spanish institution recognized as a Center of Exce- In 2018, the CIEN Foundation managed an income
llence in Neurodegeneration within the Centers of budget of over 2.3 million euros. The main source of
Excellence in Neurodegeneration Network (COEN), income comes from the nominative assignment of
a complementary initiative to the JPND to establish the Carlos III Institute of Health, which amounts to €
a common approach to research in neurodegene- 1.325,000 (representing 56% of total income), aimed
rative diseases, promoting collaborative research at achieving the specific goals and objectives that
between recognized national Centers of Excellence are materialized in the promotion of research in he-
in neurodegeneration in order to accelerate pro- alth sciences, and develop and offer scientific-tech-
gress in understanding the mechanisms of the dise- nical services of the highest quality, aimed at the
ase, as well as the identification of new therapeutic National Health System and the whole of society.
approaches.
The breakdown of the total income/revenue obtai-
Particular aims include fostering scientific advances ned in 2018 and 2017 is shown in the table on the fo-
to have an impact on the healthcare system and the llowing page.
well-being of patients. To this end, an offer of services
carried out by various Consultation Units and Rese- Revenues of the institution consist mainly of grants,
arch Groups of the CIEN Foundation has been arti- donations and operating legacies and capital re-

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