Spain

At national level, the State Plan of Scientific and Technical Research 2021-2023 includes strategies to promote open science, open access and strengthen research infrastructures and the inclusion of the Open Science paradigm in the funding, evaluation and communication of the scientific production.  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.

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 Network for Supercomputing and the IBERGRID federation contribute with network, computing and storage resources.

The engagement of Spanish institutions in EOSC is high, including 15 Members and 15 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 Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) as Service Providers.