Former director of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, Ángel Ibarra, returned to Granada after his retirement to receive the 8th Time Traveller Award granted by the Gravite Festival. A large delegation from the IFMIF-DONES team, led by Interim Director Moisés Weber and Head of the Executive Office José Aguilar, accompanied Ibarra during the ceremony held at […]

New educational and professional groups have continued to visit our facilities in Escúzar. In recent weeks, we have welcomed representatives from Almuñécar International School, the Official Association of Technical Architects and Building Engineers of Granada, the Master’s Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Granada, Novaschool, CEIGE, IES Alhamar, IES Padre Suárez, and IES […]

The 4th DONES Users Workshop will take place in person in Madrid, Spain, from 13 to 15 October 2026, at CIEMAT headquarters. The event is jointly organized by esDONES and CIEMAT. The main objective of this edition is to propose key experiments that can benefit from the already envisaged extensions of the DONES baseline facility, […]

Esther López (Granada, 1985) is a civil engineer. She holds a Master’s Degree in International Leadership from UPM, the Rafael del Pino Foundation and Ferrovial, as well as an MBA from IE Business School. After a solid international professional career, she is currently a Senior Project Manager at IFMIF-DONES. – QUESTION (Q): You have worked […]

The fourth edition of the international DONES Xcitech School will take place in Granada from 8 to 12 June. Organised by the University of Granada and the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, this initiative aims to serve as a meeting point between academia and industry, as well as a hub for highly qualified talent in key technologies […]

Granada has hosted the information day “Funding instruments and services for international technological cooperation”, an event organised by CDTI, Andalucía TRADE and the Granada Chamber of Commerce with the aim of bringing funding and collaboration opportunities in R&D&I closer to companies. The event, held at the Digital Business Hub of the Granada Chamber of Commerce, […]

On 19 and 20 March, DONES held the third meeting of its Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), bringing together leading international experts to guide the progress of the project and discuss its future development. The STAC is made up of Joaquín Sánchez, Rosaria Villari, Takeo Muroga, José Miguel Jiménez, Pierluigi Campana, Sehila González, Marek Lewitowicz […]

IFMIF-DONES participated in the Swedish Big Science Forum 2026, held on 11–12 March 2026 in Lund (Sweden). The forum is one of the main meeting points for the Swedish ecosystem of large-scale scientific infrastructures, Big Science industry, and fusion energy. The project was represented by José Aguilar Medina, Head of the Executive Office at IFMIF-DONES, […]

Representatives from 70 companies worldwide took part in the meeting “Fusion Europe & DONES” on 10 March, held at the Granada Chamber of Commerce. The event was organised by Fusion Europe in collaboration with Fusion Energy, Ineustar, the Industry Office, and IFMIF-DONES. During the session, speakers included Moisés Weber, Interim Director of IFMIF-DONES; Philippe Cara, […]

On 5 March 2026, the Quinta Alegre Palace in Granada hosted the Kick-off Meeting (KoM) of the Framework Agreement for the Design and Construction Services (AMDO) of the IFMIF-DONES scientific-technological infrastructure. This milestone marks the official start of a new and decisive phase in the development of the project, paving the way for the materialisation […]