Spain

The EECTI is structured into two state plans: the State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research 2021-2023 followed PEICTI 2024-2027. The plans include the state aid for R&D&I implemented by the State Administration. Additionally, the Spanish Roadmap for the European Research Area Development Strategy 2020-2024 in its objective 2.1 states the need of accelerating the deployment of the European open science cloud to boost the innovation on AI and supports the contribution of national research infrastructures to EOSC. At national level, the first National Strategy for Open Science (ENCA) 2023-2027 was approved, including strategies to 1) guarantee digital infrastructures for open science integrated in the EOSC, 2) manage research data following the FAIR principles 3) implement free and open access to scientific publications, and 4) establish new research evaluation mechanisms such as incentives, recognition and training.

Spain does not have a national EOSC initiative yet. The Spanish Network for e-Science (REeC), funded by the ministerial act CIN/658/2020, of July the 13th, 2020 is in progress to set up the interaction among the stakeholders. The coordinator of the REeC (Ignacio Blanquer) is also a member of the board of directors of the EOSC-A.

The major stakeholders involved in its construction are represented, on one hand by Research Performing Organizations (RPO) with the main participation of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), along with a large number of universities, the Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology and several centres participating in ESFRIs (such as Instruct, ELIXIR, EMSO, SKA and LIFEWATCH-ERIC). On the other hand, Service Providers, such as the Spanish NREN, the centres of the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) and the IBERGRID federation contribute with network, computing and storage resources.

The engagement of Spanish institutions in EOSC is high, including 12 Members and 16 Observers of the EOSC-A.  The REeC includes the Mandated Organisation, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) representing Research Performing Organisations as well as several Members that are part of the RES as Service Providers.