Two members of our team, Inma Molina and Elena López, attended the course “Introduction to Accelerator Physics”, organised by the CERN Accelerator School in collaboration with ALBA. In total, 30 experts from CERN and 64 external participants took part in the programme. The training sessions, held from 25 September to 5 October in Santa Susanna […]

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) of the DONES Programme Governing Board is meeting on 7–8 October at the Quinta Alegre Palace, the official headquarters of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium in Granada. This body provides technical recommendations to support critical decision-making for the strategic objectives of DONES. During the meeting, STAC members reviewed key […]

  The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published a special issue on IFMIF-DONES in the prestigious scientific platform IOP Science. The guest editors for this publication were Ángel Ibarra (IFMIF-DONES and CIEMAT, Spain), Davide Bernardi (ENEA, Italy), Wojciech Krolas (IFJ-PAN, Poland), and Shinichi Ishida (QST, Japan). This special issue presents the current status of […]

The Control Systems Engineering Section team from IFMIF-DONES had a successful participation in the 20th International Conference on Accelerator and Large Experimental Physics Control Systems (ICALEPCS 2025), held from September 20 to 26 in Chicago. This event is a leading international forum in the field of control systems for scientific facilities and particle accelerators. During the […]

The international workshop “Artificial Intelligence for Fusion Facilities: Challenges, Synergies and Opportunities” is being held on 29–30 September at the Citai site in Escúzar (Granada). It was an intense two days with more than 20 presentations and 15 experts who demonstrated how artificial intelligence is transforming fusion facilities, as well as the challenges we still […]

Several members of our team will participated in the latest edition of the European Researchers’ Night, to be held on 26 September at the Paseo del Salón in Granada. That same day, nearly 400 European cities hosted this event, where streets and squares were filled with workshops, experiments, guided tours, and talks about science and […]

“Fusion Energy. An Energy Revolution Underway. From Scientific Breakthrough to Industrial Deployment” is the title of the latest report published by the Bankinter Innovation Foundation. The document stems from the Fusion Energy Forum held last June, where Ángel Ibarra, Director of the IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium, took part in a panel of international experts. The report […]

Ángel Ibarra, Director of the IFMIF-DONES España Consortium, will take part next Thursday in the closing session of the 18th European Congress on Advanced Materials and Processes – FEMS EUROMAT 2025, held in Granada (Spain) from September 14–18, 2025. This is the largest European event dedicated to materials science and technology. This edition is organised […]

Rafael Esteban (Granada, 1975) holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Management Systems and is a PhD candidate in Civil Engineering at the University of Granada. He joined the project in November 2020 at the University of Granada, where he carried out economic-financial and administrative management tasks during the preparatory phase of IFMIF-DONES. Since February 20, […]

Ángel Ibarra, Director of the IFMIF-DONES Spain Consortium, and Luis Monasterio, Senior Materials Scientist at IFMIF-DONES, attended the first Technical Meeting organised by the IAEA on tritium breeding blankets. The conference, held from September 1 to 5 in Vienna (Austria), focused on the exchange of technical knowledge, discussions on nuclear qualification procedures, and the sharing […]