Yesterday the BIO-Europe Spring conference closed, which for three days has converted Barcelona in the European capital of biotechnological partnership. It has enjoyed the participation of 1,061 companies and 1,800 attendees from 43 countries. The organizers, EBD Group, say that this has been the most successful in its history, with an increase, despite the crisis, of 15% over last year's congress in Milan. BIO-Europe Spring has facilitated 9,000 'one-to-one’ meetings to establish partnership relations between actors of the biotechnology sector.