Map of Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructures

The term Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS) refers to facilities, resources or services necessary to develop cutting-edge and high-quality research, as well as for the transmission, exchange and preservation of knowledge, the transfer of technology and the promotion of innovation. They are unique or exceptional in their kind, with a very high cost of investment, maintenance and operation, and whose importance and strategic nature justifies their availability for the entire R+D+I collective.

ICTS have three fundamental characteristics: they are publicly owned infrastructures, they are unique and they are open to competitive access.

The ICTS are located throughout the national territory and are collected in what is called the Map of Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructures.ICTS can be located in a single location (Infrastructures with single location), can be part of an Infrastructure Network (RI) or be constituted as a Distributed Infrastructure (ID), depending on the level of integration and coordination of its capabilities. In addition, the ICTS Map is dynamic and open, in the sense that the infrastructures included in the current map must continue to meet the requirements required to maintain their ICTS status and, on the other hand, it is open to the incorporation of other infrastructures, provided that they are operational and demonstrate compliance with those requirements.