International research bodies and infrastructures

Spain has a long tradition of participation in large international research facilities, which has been fundamental to promote the internationalization of research in Spain, which has promoted the mobility and training of our researchers and technologists in these bodies and facilitated the coordination of the guidelines and activities of the state research programs with those of the other partners. Within this framework, the States decide to jointly finance the costs of construction and operation of these large research infrastructures, making long-term commitments within the framework of international agreements.

Spain participates in numerous international research infrastructures, whose facilities are open to Spanish scientists and technologists.

e-Science is understood as the set of scientific activities developed through the use of distributed resources accessible and shared in the network. The need for e-science is based on the growing demand by scientists for more data processing and storage resources, as well as new forms of collaborative work. The development of e-science will allow new application models and the deployment of “middlewares” to efficiently exploit the resources of the scientific community.

The e-Science Network (REC) is created by Order CIN/658/2020, as an advisory body of the General Secretariat of Research in order to promote and coordinate activities related to e-science in Spain.

Spain actively participates in the Pan-European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) and in the Spanish-Portuguese IBERGRID.