International research organisations and infrastructures

Spain has a long history of participating in major international research facilities, which has been fundamental to developing Spanish research's internationalisation, thereby promoting the mobility and training of our researchers and technicians in these bodies and facilitating the coordination of the guidelines and activities of the State research programmes with those of the other partners. In this context, states decide to jointly fund the costs of building and operating major research infrastructure, signing long-term commitments as part of international agreements.

Spain participates in numerous international research infrastructure, the facilities of which are open to Spanish scientists and technicians.

E-Science is understood as the set of scientific activities developed through the use of distributed resources that are accessible and shared on a network. Spain actively participates in the Pan-European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) and in the Spanish-Portuguese IBERGRID.

The e-science network was created in 2020 as an advisory body to the General Secretary of Research with the aim of promoting and coordinating activities related to e-science in Spain.