The CIEMAT director general, Yolanda Benito, and the director of Technology, José Manuel Pérez, today visited the works that the CIEMAT is building in Citai (Escúzar, Granada) and which will be made available to IFMIF-DONES in the coming months. The facilities under development include the Administration and Visitors, Access Control and Laboratories buildings, which exceed […]

To transmit the energy of fusion to new audiences. This is the goal of the collective ‘Women in DONES’ (WiD). And they have achieved it through music. Thanks to the collaboration of singer, rapper, and composer Sandra Quero Alba (sandra333sb), with the production of Bezea, the song ‘DONES’ was created. On the occasion of the […]

Coinciding with the ‘Day of Women and Girls in Science’, the animated short film ‘Estela’, promoted by the IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium and other public-private entities, was presented yesterday. The screening took place at an event held in Seville. The short film is now available through the on-demand digital content platform of the Andalusian regional broadcaster […]

The plenary session of the Board of Trustees of the Rodríguez-Acosta Andalusian Public Foundation has unanimously agreed to award the Institution’s Medal of Honor for the year 2024 to the IFMIF DONES España Consortium, ‘due to its outstanding and valuable scientific work, as well as the national and international projection of the activity it is […]

The Andalusian Film Academy has awarded the Carmen Award for Best Animated Short Film to ‘Estela’, produced by Rokyn Animation and Grupo ADM. Manuel Sicilia directed and wrote the script.During the award ceremony, Sicilia thanked IFMIF-DONES for supporting this exciting story of a curious and determined little girl who wants to travel into space. ‘Estela’ […]

On 13 January, the execution of the CDTI Innovation Pre-commercial Public Procurement contracts for developing systems and materials validators in fusion energy began with IFMIF-DONES. The purpose of this PPP contract is the development of Integrated Technology Validators for Accelerator systems (VATIAC) and Test Area Systems (VATIST), which will allow the Consortium to perform long-term […]

The IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, the University of Granada, the Astrophysics Institute of Andalusia-CSIC, the Granada Chamber of Commerce and INEUSTAR have signed the creation of an initiative in the form of an association to work to generate an industrial ecosystem linked to the large science sector in Granada. The science industry sector comprises the set […]

Juan Cantero (Granada, 1980) is a civil engineer. He is currently in charge of Construction at IFMIF-DONES. He has extensive professional experience in different countries. – QUESTION (Q): You belong to a generation of engineers compelled to internationalize their professional trajectory. With the benefit of hindsight, how do you evaluate that experience? – ANSWER (A): […]

The Demarcation of Andalusia, Ceuta and Melilla of the Association of Civil Engineers has awarded José Aguilar Medina, head of the Programme Management Office of the International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility – Demo Oriented Neutron Source (IFMIF-DONES), as Engineer of the Year 2024, at a ceremony in Seville in front of almost a hundred attendees. […]

The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Diana Morant, has stated that consolidating the ‘powerful bridge between science and politics is more important than ever, in the midst of a global ecological and digital transformation, and in the face of the reactionary wave of disinformation, hoaxes and scientific denialism, which is advancing in the world […]