On 19th and 20th October, the Granada Science Park will host the ‘Second DONES Users Workshop’, attended by a hundred scientists and technicians from 17 countries. The main objective of the scientific meeting of the “DONES Users”, which aims to be repeated on an annual basis, is to ensure that the IFMIF-DONES scientific infrastructure can […]
Last week, CERN hosted the presentation of the IFMIF-DONES facility and its diagnostic systems during the Hadron Beams Workshop. This biennial symposium brought together experts from the world’s foremost particle accelerators and high-power targets: CERN, Fermilab, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, FRIB, Los Alamos, KEK, J-PARC, ESS, RAL, PSI, CSNS and LIPAc, among others. Claudio Torregrosa, […]
The acting Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has highlighted the opportunity for Spain and Andalusia that Granada will host the IFMIF-DONES particle accelerator, due to the social and economic impact that this facility, unique at international level and key to the development of clean energy, will have. The construction of IFMIF-DONES is one of […]
The DONES Baseline Review, which consisted of a detailed analysis of the design status of the project by a panel of renowned experts from outside the project, took place in Granada on 2-3 October. The outcome was successful, and they recommended the implementation of the international Programme Team, this outcome will be presented at the […]
Almudena Díez (Madrid, 1964) has a degree in Physics. She has 30 years of experience as a project manager, analyst and consultant in engineering companies and software products. Since 2018, she has been part of the DONES Project Integration team as the leader of the definition and implementation of the Requirements Management process. QUESTION (Q). […]
The Declaration of the Spanish Presidency of Tenerife on 25 and 26 September, promoted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and endorsed by 14 countries, calls for promoting a better-distributed ecosystem of European Research Infrastructures. The document was presented during the celebration of the High Level International Conference on Global Dimension and Sustainability of […]
Many people attended the conferences organised at the IFMIF-DONES stand during The Researchers’ Night, held on 29 September at the Paseo del Salón in Granada. Throughout the day, several people from our team developing their studies around the particle accelerator gave talks to those who attended this annual scientific dissemination event in Europe.
‘Walking towards the future, from Granada to the stars. IFMIF-DONES and fusion energy’ is the title of the exhibition inaugurated on 29th September in the Science Window area of the Science Park. The IFMIF-DONES Consortium, the Science Park, the FECYT and the University of Granada produce the collection. The opening of this Window on Science […]
QUESTION (Q). First, we would like to congratulate you on the University of Granada (UGR) position in the Shanghai Ranking: second Spanish university and among the 300 best in the world—an incredible achievement, doubtlessly, but also a responsibility. ANSWER (A). Thank you very much. Indeed, it is a pride and, at the same time, a responsibility that […]
The director of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, Ángel Ibarra, today took part in the informal ministerial meeting on Competitiveness and Research of the European Union, which took place today at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander, on the occasion of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. During his presentation to […]
