Research Agencies
The Spanish National Research Council [external link]
Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism [external link]
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [external link]
Centro Desarrollo Tecnologico e Industrial [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Digital Agenda for Spain [external link]
National Research and Development Plan [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€500 – €700 million.
Best Estimate: €550 million
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Organisations
Red.es [external link]
ENISA [external link]
INETSIS [external link]
Telecommunications and Information Society [external link]
Polytechnic University of Madrid [external link]
University of Murcia [external link]
Public University of Navarra [external link]
Polytechnic University of Catalonia [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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Catalunya Connecta
Catalunya Connecta is a project of the government of Catalonia. The project aims to execute a deployment plan for the development of the government’s electronic communication services.
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COMONSENS
COMMONSENS is a Spanish research consortium whose goal is to formulate solutions to new and existing problems and to enable fundamental insights into the performance bounds and limitations of large-scale networks within the domain of mobile and wireless communications.
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CONSEQUENCE
The CONSEQUENCE project aims to research solutions to problems arising in the domain of network connectivity support in transportation systems. There are four main areas of research: continuity of service, quality of service, security and identity and privacy.
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CRAAX
The CRAAX lab actively participate in research into the area of advanced network architectures, nationally and internationally, in close collaboration with industry partners
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es.INTERNET
es.internet is a national technological platform which aims to develop a Spanish Future Internet (FI) ecosystem which will push Spain to the leading edge of FI research and development.
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GEN6
Gen6 is the Spanish IPv6 platform tasked with promoting the adaption of the IPv6 protocol.
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GeNeura
The GeNeura research group seeks to utilise bioinspired algorithms based on complex neural networks, ant colony and evolutionary algorithms to design new solutions in the field of network design.
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MAPS
The MAPS (Management, Pricing and Services in Next Generation Networks) group conducts research into network management, planning, architecture and service engineering
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Signal Processing and Communications Group
The Signal Processing and Communications Group performs research and teaching activities at the Signal Theory and Communications Department (TSC) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).
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SuMA
This project aims to provide solutions to emerging security threats in the area of MANET systems through developing a new cross-layer detection mechanism which can deal with deal with multi-layer information
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WiComTec
The WiComTech group conducts coordinated research in the area of radio-communication systems, with emphasis in wireless systems and technologies.
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